 "OCF Kiwi Down Under" Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: May 2013 Posts: 63 | Great thread. Thanks everyone.
I was on at least 140mg morphine (70mg morning, 70mg night slow release MS ESlon (morphine) + Sevredol short release morphine for break through pain). I'd stopped the Sevredol during the day and was only on the 140mg MS. Dropped the night time one all together last Wednesday at the same time as my daughter started coming down with a temperature. Thought I'd developed the same thing, shivering & chills during the day, then that went away but they continued every night and I just started to feel very tired & old.
On Sunday I dropped the night time meds as well so was on nothing and I've just been feeling very "off" Shivering & chills every night and not sleeping.
Why did it take me this long to realise it could be withdrawal and to not even think about dropping doses slowly like I did when I was on it and slowly increasing.
I've just taken 20mg and will see if that gets rid of the chills. If not, I'll up it a bit more and do this more slowly over the next 2-3 weeks.
STUPID, STUPID, STUPID...
2013 - 39yr old female, DX BOT SCC Stage IVA (T1N2bM0) HPV+
28 May 13 - Pharangoscopy & tongue biopsy
29 May 13 - BOT Surgery & right ND (lvls 2-5)
31 May 13 - Hemorrhage, emergency trach, critical care
BOT clr mgns, 9/67 nodes & extracapsular extension
Finished 30 rads & chemo (cisplatin) stopped after 1 round due to hearing loss
May 2015 - left supraclavicular swollen lymph node & area - CT planned 9 May
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