Fentanyl!

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

I checked in to Ipswich Hospital yesterday for a minor procedure and was asked if I wanted sedation. Being one of nature’s cowards, of course I did.

I spent the rest of the day, including not driving home, in a very agreeable sort of pink tinged haze of well-being with added unicorns.

Today I phoned my medical student son to get the case notes decoded. I’m disgustingly fit for seventy. “How did you like the Fentanyl?”, he asked.

So that was what it was!

Well, it’s lovely stuff. Charles tells me it’s 100 times more potent than morphine, that all soldiers carry Fentanyl “lollipops” in their medical kits and every army on the planet has issues with them going missing.

My fear of dying has become a fear of not dying in a hospital bed connected up to a Fentanyl drip.

[lupussonic]

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You really should try MDMA.

[johnw]

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I think everyone reacts differently to drugs. I had narcotics prescribed when I've been operated on. I ended up not using all the pills because I find it annoying not to have full use of my brain. As soon as I can bear the pain that remains, I'm off the pills.

[bluedog225]

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Drugs are bad. Glad it went well.

[lupussonic]

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Drugs are bad. Glad it went well.

Coffee is bad?

[TerryLL]

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I had fentanyl and a cocktail of other drugs during bypass surgery. Absolutely painless. The stuff does have its use, just not on the street in massive quantities at rock bottom prices.

[LeeG]

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It’s good to hear a positive fentanyl story.

[Ron Williamson]

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My dad was on fentanyl patches for a few years when he was dying from cancer.
He also had a morphine pump for when the pain was 'really bad'.
He didn't want the morphine since he couldn't drink Lamb's Navy 151 rum and coke while he was on it.
R

[gypsie]

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Drugs are bad. Glad it went well.

have you seen what oxygen does to iron?

[David W Pratt]

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IIRC, Janssen had two congeners of fentanyl approved" Alfenta (alfentanil) and Sufenta (sufentanyl).
The former had a shorter duration of action and was promoted for procedures lasting <2hrs. Sufenta was promoted for longer procedures due to its longer duration of action. There are several ( at least) other, closely related compounds with differing properties including much greater potency.
I'm not familiar with the processes used to produce illicit fentanyl, but I would suspect the purity and potency vary widely.

[rregge]

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When I was in the hospital for septic shock (bp 70/30 but that is for a different story) I had a wicked sinus infection (not good on top of sepsis). They couldn't give me typical pain meds like Tylenol because of issues with liver (liver was in bad shape after being in shock)/ Right when I went to bed they gave me...yup fentanyl. Wow what a trip. That night I dreamed I was in a museum, except I was part of an exhibit behind the glass. I was "dreaming" that these museum visitors kept walking by the exhibit and looking in at me (think nurses and doctors)

The next morning the doctor asked how I slept, I told him about the museum, he said no more fentanyl for me.

[John B]

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I checked in to Ipswich Hospital yesterday for a minor procedure and was asked if I wanted sedation. Being one of nature’s cowards, of course I did.

I spent the rest of the day, including not driving home, in a very agreeable sort of pink tinged haze of well-being with added unicorns.

Today I phoned my medical student son to get the case notes decoded. I’m disgustingly fit for seventy. “How did you like the Fentanyl?”, he asked.

So that was what it was!

Well, it’s lovely stuff. Charles tells me it’s 100 times more potent than morphine, that all soldiers carry Fentanyl “lollipops” in their medical kits and every army on the planet has issues with them going missing.

My fear of dying has become a fear of not dying in a hospital bed connected up to a Fentanyl drip.

If you find yourself with a desperate desire to change your name to a symbol and play Purple rain or Little red corvette, pull up pull up.

[Ed Harrow]

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When I was in the hospital for septic shock (bp 70/30 but that is for a different story) I had a wicked sinus infection (not good on top of sepsis). They couldn't give me typical pain meds like Tylenol because of issues with liver (liver was in bad shape after being in shock)/ Right when I went to bed they gave me...yup fentanyl. Wow what a trip. That night I dreamed I was in a museum, except I was part of an exhibit behind the glass. I was "dreaming" that these museum visitors kept walking by the exhibit and looking in at me (think nurses and doctors)

The next morning the doctor asked how I slept, I told him about the museum, he said no more fentanyl for me.

I had a similar experience in, or coming out of, a coma. But then I wasn't in a museum, I was in Panama...

[gypsie]

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When I was in the hospital for septic shock (bp 70/30 but that is for a different story) I had a wicked sinus infection (not good on top of sepsis). They couldn't give me typical pain meds like Tylenol because of issues with liver (liver was in bad shape after being in shock)/ Right when I went to bed they gave me...yup fentanyl. Wow what a trip. That night I dreamed I was in a museum, except I was part of an exhibit behind the glass. I was "dreaming" that these museum visitors kept walking by the exhibit and looking in at me (think nurses and doctors)

The next morning the doctor asked how I slept, I told him about the museum, he said no more fentanyl for me.

So the lesson is to be careful what you tell your doctor.

[Too Little Time]

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Charles tells me it’s 100 times more potent than morphine

They do not give you the same amount of fentanyl as morphine.

I always wanted more morphine in the hospital drip. But the fentanyl patches at home were a bit too much.