What is Chronic Pain
Chronic pain becomes chronic when it persists longer than 6 months and is resistant to medical management. Millions of Americans are chronic pain patients and some exper...
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This is my mum,s site but,i,ve been given the ok to write on her behalf when she can,t,right now my mum is in the intensive care unit because she tried to just stop her morphine straight away,mum lives with acute chronic pain 24/7,she was told by her pain doctor that he thought she,d might benefit by having a painpump,what a load of s---! that man almost 3 yrs ago told my mum he thought this would be ideal for her! then the pig say,s to her you,d benefit from having this pump but we don,t do them here,so i,ll send you to another hospital 125 miles away! but mum was up for it as she said i,ve got hope now! then on saturday she got a letter from her pain doc can,t help her and to just carry on the way you are!my mum just sat their and cried her heart out [she is already in hospital] this gutless pig didn,t have the gut,s to face her no he decided to send her a letter instead! that was it mum was halfway through having a blood transfusion,she asked to speak to the nurse ,the nurse duly came and without any warning she looked at the nurse literally ripped her drip out of her arm and told this nurse,i am going home and i will not be stopped!the nurse told her, come on shaz don,t be foolish mum very calmly told the nurse i want to sign myself out of here and i want to go home,well several doctor,s and nurse,s came and tried to persuede her to stay but she,d made up her mind,she finally signed the papers and came home,in the meantime the hospital applied for a court order to have mum put back into hospital,she agreed to stay on dialysis and came home,thats when she dropped the bombshell! she very calmly told me,well there not prepared to help me so thats it i,m not gonna take anymore morphine and i,m done with the lies those doctors have told me sod it i,m gonna stop my morphine and if my pain gets unbearable then tough! she did exactly as she said she would,between last night and midnite she had 5 fit,s she was in a terrible state! i have seen my mum is pain but never in my life have i seen her this bad,she has been shivering sweating and shaking she has also been sick non stop since this happened,she is very sick,so finally this morning we got her back into the hospital about 4am this morning and now because of what she did she is really sick,so sick she is in intensive care unit and the hospital have re-applied to keep her in but if she wakes up and realise,s where she is she,ll just discharge herself again,this could,ve been avoided she deserves to be treated better than this so called pain mamagment doctor has treated her,if there is anyone online who live,s in the u.k who can help us i would be very very grateful if you could help her,we live in hampshire i just dont know what else to do,we have written letter,s to so many doctors we dunno what else we can do,please can you help us? my mum is gonna die unless someone helps her,we know she is depressed but that is due to her pain as i have said i,d be grateful if anyone can help us? callum
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Hey Callum, I am so sorry to hear this about your mom. it is unforgivable let alone should be illegal for this doc to do that. In the U.S. most of us have contracts that state if the doc no longer wants to treat us, he must give us 30 days of meds. Which means we have 30 days to find a new PM. Although there is no law that states they must do it.
With a pain pump I can't even imagine the doc doing that. It's not like your mom could just go to the pharmacy and get meds, at least not here. She would have to go to the docs office and they fill the pumps with the meds. I'd say sue the docs. Couldn't one of the docs in the hospital get your mom morphine? What are they doing for her now as far as pain meds? With her signing out against medical advice, it makes it more difficult. I wish I could tell you to do something that would make it better. Over here allwe could tell you was your mom needs to find a new pain doc. Normally someone close to where they live can gice them names of docs but you need someone from England. Please try and keep your mom in the hospital until she is well and talk with the main doc ahead of her care about getting her something for pain. Take care and keep us updated Melissa 
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Callum,
From what you said, and from your Mom stopping the Morphine abruptly, it takes about 3-5 days before one would begin to go int withdrawls. Hasn't anyone said anythin about this at all? I am a nurse, also a Chemical Dependncy Specialist. I cn't fathom that the don't know that'a wht is going on. Did they give her any Morphine, or another pain medicaion. If not she will be of physically as soon as she finishes the withdrawls. She has been on it for what looks like a very lon time, and it is a heavy narcotic. Also a very difficult one to detox off. I only hope they are giving her detox protocol/ We always give them somethin for anxiety, something to prevent seizures,something for sleep. One can't force a person to take anything, I do aree that the doctor fif a crppy thing, and in 35 years I have stories that would make you never want to ee a doctor again. We havebecome a number, and a $ sing to so many of them. I don't care if you do live in England. I would contact a Patients Riht Advocate, and get them involved in this. Also a Social worker too. How can the courts ge invloved, and make her stay? I know here in the US, no one can make a patient stay in the hopial, unless they are a daner to themselves or others. Being that she has to have dialysis, well is she refusin to go and et it when she needs it? I still don't see where the courts have any business with her case. Please keep me informed as to what is going on with you , and your mom. Also get a good laywer. He did abandond his patient!!! Debbie
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