Three days, no food, no water. Nothing by mouth. Was in hospital, so I had an IV bag at least. And tons of dilaudid the whole time… it was quite the experience. They fixed me, though! Was in there for almost a week and a half tho. Getting to eat again was as awesome as the Dilaudid was.
I don’t wanna doxx myself for hospital reason, but let’s just say it was very uncommon and serious and I was apparently in significantly more pain than I thought I was. I’m never birthing a child, but multiple doctors told me it was worse than childbirth. Yayyyyy! Luckily I’m 99% better and it is not likely to happen again.
Dilaudid is morphene but MOREphene. Like, extra mega strong morphene. They gave me morphene at first and decided I could use something stronger. I did not complain!
I kinda hate how quickly dilaudid fades, tho - but I have never had morphine to compare against, so 🤷♀️
but yeah, it’s annoying having to ask the nurse to administer another dose of dilaudid so frequently, I think I had to do it three times when waiting in post-op to be discharged, and even then it was only moderately helpful - maybe my doses were too low (I should go check the paperwork and see if I can figure out how much I took).
EDIT: I was given 0.5 mg each time, and I had to request another dose roughly once an hour (it was administered by IV) - so, I don’t know how that compares to your dose / experience … I think the max amount they would allow was 2 mg.
Ahh mine was every couple hours. I’m not sure the dosage but it was two tubes most times. They gave me one tube occasionally and then asked a bit later if I wanted the other. I think I only declined once, it hurt quiiiite a lot. There weren’t any times where it wore off before I could have another, so that’s nice! Also the hospital my partner drove me to, I got fucking LUCKY. They got my vitals immediately when I got there, I was in a room within 10 minutes, a CT scan in maybe a half hour, and the were like “yeah you’re gonna have to stay for… some time. We’ll get you a room upstairs as soon as we can, but that’s gonna be the tricky part.”
My partner and I start watching stuff together on my phone while we wait (thank you headphone audio mirroring!) and we get a HALF HOUR IN and they’re like “corner room opened, we’re gonna get you in there NOW before anything happens to it”
Big ol giant room for us both to be in, nice tables I can move around without getting up. Bathe room mega close, and almost every time I paged a nurse for pain meds they were there INSTANTLY. It was honestly the best hospital experience I could have hoped for. After a few days on Dilaudid they asked if I wanted to switch to oral oxy when I could eat more, and that lasted much longer (but the whole IV thing was so neat… I’ve done almost every drug but never touched opiates and I refuse to touch needles, so that was prolly (hopefully) a once in a lifetime experience for me)
By the time I got home, I didn’t even need the extra Oxys they gave me, but I had a lil fun with them after as a reward for my experience. I’ll for sure go to that hospital if I ever need to again.
Totally random! I wouldn’t worry about it—it’s very very rare, it’s not commonly terminal, and it generally never comes back. I’ve never met or heard of anyone else having it (which is why I don’t wanna go into detail, I’m sorry!) so there’s likely no chance you’ll ever have to worry.
But damn, was it hurty @w@ if my mind wasn’t already solidified about not birthing kids, it would be now hahaha
Three days, no food, no water. Nothing by mouth. Was in hospital, so I had an IV bag at least. And tons of dilaudid the whole time… it was quite the experience. They fixed me, though! Was in there for almost a week and a half tho. Getting to eat again was as awesome as the Dilaudid was.
What’s dilaudid and why were you in hospital?
I don’t wanna doxx myself for hospital reason, but let’s just say it was very uncommon and serious and I was apparently in significantly more pain than I thought I was. I’m never birthing a child, but multiple doctors told me it was worse than childbirth. Yayyyyy! Luckily I’m 99% better and it is not likely to happen again.
Dilaudid is morphene but MOREphene. Like, extra mega strong morphene. They gave me morphene at first and decided I could use something stronger. I did not complain!
I kinda hate how quickly dilaudid fades, tho - but I have never had morphine to compare against, so 🤷♀️
but yeah, it’s annoying having to ask the nurse to administer another dose of dilaudid so frequently, I think I had to do it three times when waiting in post-op to be discharged, and even then it was only moderately helpful - maybe my doses were too low (I should go check the paperwork and see if I can figure out how much I took).
EDIT: I was given 0.5 mg each time, and I had to request another dose roughly once an hour (it was administered by IV) - so, I don’t know how that compares to your dose / experience … I think the max amount they would allow was 2 mg.
Ahh mine was every couple hours. I’m not sure the dosage but it was two tubes most times. They gave me one tube occasionally and then asked a bit later if I wanted the other. I think I only declined once, it hurt quiiiite a lot. There weren’t any times where it wore off before I could have another, so that’s nice! Also the hospital my partner drove me to, I got fucking LUCKY. They got my vitals immediately when I got there, I was in a room within 10 minutes, a CT scan in maybe a half hour, and the were like “yeah you’re gonna have to stay for… some time. We’ll get you a room upstairs as soon as we can, but that’s gonna be the tricky part.”
My partner and I start watching stuff together on my phone while we wait (thank you headphone audio mirroring!) and we get a HALF HOUR IN and they’re like “corner room opened, we’re gonna get you in there NOW before anything happens to it”
Big ol giant room for us both to be in, nice tables I can move around without getting up. Bathe room mega close, and almost every time I paged a nurse for pain meds they were there INSTANTLY. It was honestly the best hospital experience I could have hoped for. After a few days on Dilaudid they asked if I wanted to switch to oral oxy when I could eat more, and that lasted much longer (but the whole IV thing was so neat… I’ve done almost every drug but never touched opiates and I refuse to touch needles, so that was prolly (hopefully) a once in a lifetime experience for me)
By the time I got home, I didn’t even need the extra Oxys they gave me, but I had a lil fun with them after as a reward for my experience. I’ll for sure go to that hospital if I ever need to again.
Damn sounds scary. I hope I don’t get that whatever it is.
Any tips on how to avoid that?
Totally random! I wouldn’t worry about it—it’s very very rare, it’s not commonly terminal, and it generally never comes back. I’ve never met or heard of anyone else having it (which is why I don’t wanna go into detail, I’m sorry!) so there’s likely no chance you’ll ever have to worry.
But damn, was it hurty @w@ if my mind wasn’t already solidified about not birthing kids, it would be now hahaha