dilaudid, nausea, and weed

[Guest fiznuthian]

anyone have any experience with dilaudid? my mother is going through post-op pain from

two surgeries to help remove a 15 mm kidney stone. she's pretty much in the worst pain

imaginable, the kind where you can't raise an arm and vomit everywhere. so the doctor

put her on hydromorphone 4 mg tablets, from what i understand is approx. 3-4 times stronger

than morphine by effect, but can still form dependency quickly. i know some of you guys

are into the drug game far more than i am, could you give me any idea what to expect?

she only has 10 of them currently, but i have read anecdotal reports of people experiencing mild-moderate

withdrawals after a day of eating them. she's eating 1-2 daily, no more than that yet.

 

she's also experiencing terrible nausea from something, either the pain, meds, or complications.

for that i'm considering getting her to smoke some weed i bought. the strain is silver haze and very gorgeous.

is pot really all that useful as an antiemetic? its helped me in the past but im not the one eating synthetic

top-tier opioids pissing rock with a 1 foot tube stitched into my genitals.

[Guest the anonymous forumite]

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[Guest sine]

Hey,

I'm sure its the pain meds making her nauseous or causing the vomiting.For such heavy duty pain relief they usually give an antiemetic dont they?It defeats the object if whats supposed to give some relief is being expelled by the body..

Personally Ive had experience of smoking weed to quell sickness and its worked a treat as long as the strain is smooth and not too intense.

I'm sorry your Mum's so poorly.Its nice that youre looking after her.

Sorry I cant help more.

[Guest Al5x]

LOL @ TAF's post.

To answer your questions...

 

Yes dilaudid causes nausea.

 

From experience and general knowledge I would say that morphine, hydromorphone and diacetylmorphine are all in the same range of effects and withdrawal symptoms. She'll most likely be very irritable for a week or two when taken off them and have liquidy shits, possibly vomiting as well as feeling feverish. Severe opiate withdrawals are basically the same as having the flu.

 

Marijuana works well as an anti-emetic on about 50% of people according to studies. It shouldn't do much harm if she tried it, but if she starts vomiting more or there are any other adverse affects then obv. you need to toss that idea out.

[Guest fiznuthian]

okay, thanks guys!

no smoking her up i guess,

she said she doesn't care to.

 

checked her bottle, seems she's only taken 4 dilaudid so far.

they gave her an antiemetic but only 2 of them.. ?

[Guest the anonymous forumite]

Hey Fiz, if you're my Santa this year, then you could send me one dilaudid and it'll be the best gift ever, along with my sleeptracker.

[Guest fiznuthian]

is that what the dots were about? i missed your original post.

thought you were just being humorous or something.

 

if there's any left i might not be opposed to sending you one for free.

i'm no narcotic dealer.

watmm advice has been useful to me, wouldn't mind making your xmas cheerful.

[Guest Diao]

She shouldn't experience any withdrawal symptoms from only having 10 of them. And they are approximately 6x as strong as morphine if taken orally.

[Guest mafted]

...and weed.