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michelle32547
michelle32547

Hi everyone - I just got out of hospital yesterday after a right thr on friday.  Feeling very sore and stuff obviously but reading all the posts here has normalised everything I/'m feeling.   So thank you.  Does everyone feel a bit spaced out on the morphine meds?  I caught myself staring into the distance several times last night - studying absolutely nothing at all lol

Am off to attempt my first wash - wish me luck lol.

Michelle

 

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    Michelle

    Congratulations on your new hip.

    We don't all react to morphine meds in the same way. Morphine is great at blocking pain(though I think technically it just makes us not worry about the pain - hence the staring into space etc - but can have side effects, I think most of us experience some constipation after the op and morphine (and all it's derivatives like codeine) are partly responsible for that.

    I think the sooner you can get off all morphine pain meds the better but it depends on the level of pain you have.

    Hope you are now feeling clean and refreshedbiggrin

    Mike

     

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