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If you’re about to undergo surgery and are facing concerns about being administered morphine, it’s completely normal to have questions and reservations. Morphine is a powerful narcotic pain medication that is often used to manage severe pain, especially after surgery. It is derived from the opium poppy and belongs to the opioid class of drugs, which also includes substances like heroin and fentanyl.
⭐ What does morphine actually feel like?
When administered under proper medical supervision, morphine can have the following effects on the body:
1. Pain relief: Morphine is highly effective at managing severe pain, especially after surgical procedures or in cases of chronic pain. It works by binding to specific receptors in the brain and spinal cord, which blocks the transmission of pain signals.
2. Euphoria and relaxation: Along with pain relief, morphine can also produce feelings of euphoria, relaxation, and overall well-being. This can be a welcome relief for individuals who are in intense discomfort.
3. Sedation: One common side effect of morphine is sedation or drowsiness. This can help patients get much-needed rest and sleep during the recovery period.
4. Nausea and constipation: On the flip side, morphine can also cause some unwanted side effects such as nausea and constipation. These effects can be managed with additional medications or adjustments to the dosage of morphine.
5. Potential for addiction: One of the most significant concerns with morphine is its potential for addiction. Because of its potent effects, there is a risk of developing dependence on the drug, especially if it is misused or taken for an extended period.
🚫 Will I get hooked on it?
It’s understandable to be worried about the potential for addiction, especially if you have family members who have struggled with substance abuse. While there is a risk of developing dependence on morphine, it’s essential to remember that when used as prescribed for legitimate medical purposes, the risk is significantly lower. Additionally, the risk of addiction can be further mitigated by the following factors:
– Close monitoring by healthcare professionals: Your medical team will closely monitor your use of morphine and adjust your dosage as needed. This can help prevent any misuse or overuse of the drug.
– Alternate pain management strategies: In addition to morphine, your healthcare provider may also incorporate other pain management techniques such as non-opioid pain medications, physical therapy, or nerve blocks. This can help reduce the reliance on morphine and lower the risk of addiction.
– Open communication and education: It’s important to have open and honest communication with your healthcare provider about your concerns and previous experiences with drug abuse in your family. They can provide additional education and support to help alleviate your fears.
In conclusion, while morphine can provide significant relief from severe pain, it’s essential to approach its use with caution and awareness of the potential risks. As long as it is used responsibly and as part of a comprehensive pain management plan, the risk of addiction can be minimized. Trust in the expertise of your medical team and be proactive in discussing any concerns you may have. With the right support and guidance, you can effectively manage your pain without falling into the trap of addiction.
It will feel like every cell in your body is immersed in a warm bath.
If you take them as directed, you will not get addicted.
If you’re on them for more than a week, you will develop a dependency as your body adjusts to the drugs. There will be a few days of unpleasantness when you stop taking them. This can be be quite uncomfortable, but it will pass very quickly – about 3 days of flu-like symptoms and/or feeling very flat.
It is vital that you follow your doctor’s directions. When they say it’s time to stop taking them, follow those instructions. You will feel like shit – let yourself feel like shit, it will pass in just a few days.
It made me dizzy, but other than that I wouldn’t have know it was different to any other pain medicine, nor was I hooked to it in any way
It feels hot, like your blood is really warm at first, then it’s just normal pain-killer relaxedness. You *shouldnt* get addicted from a normal and properly taken amount from surgery, but if you have family history of addiction, you can tell the doc and they might prescribe a different, less addictive, pain med for recovery if you want.
It felt like an egg was gently cracked on the top of my head and this river of relief poured down my body. I would have a few moments of “ah, that’s nice” clarity, but then I’d get very tired and nap. The pain would wake me up, I’d eat a little bit, then they would give me a bit less pain medicine and it would start over again.
Since you’re only focusing on the “ah, that’s nice” in the sense that it’s nice to be out of blinding pain, I’ve never gotten hooked on anything from surgeries. I’ve just been happy to be out of pain after surgery.
I was given some by injection after surgery. It barely made a dent in the pain and I did not feel anything special. I have an addictive personality, I never do drugs for this reason. but had zero desire to get any opiates after having morphine in hospital a few times
that is just my experience
Warmth and relaxation with a little nausea. It didn’t affect the pain for me.
They don’t send you home with morphine. You’ll be fine. Probably push you out the door with ibuprofen.
WOMWOMWOMWOM
That’s what any downer feels like to me lol
It goes to the pain. And you’ll be nodding off.
I’ve been administered morphine many times. In a mild dose you feel a bit of energy and may make you a bit itchy. With a moderate dose you will feel drowsiness, warmth and have an itchy nose. With a heavy dose you’re going to immediately feel a prickly feeling on every inch of your body followed by almost complete lack of feeling and extreme drowsiness.
Now about the addictive elements- long term use of any opioid can lead to physical dependency so only take what you need as long as you need it, try not to wake up and take your medicine or do it at a regular time( can aid in dependency) and think about your own characteristics( we aren’t all going to be addicts because our parents/family are, it just makes it statistically more likely ) … Do you drink? When you do can you stop yourself or do drink until a blackout? Have you ever been dependent on marijuana or any “soft” drug? If you said no to all that you should be fine.
A fog
You are gonna be fine if you follow doctors orders. I didn’t like morphine. Made me itchy and just icky feeling. Slow. Delaudid though… the champaign of pain killers. The stuff felt goooooood. Definitely did not ask for more of that.
I had a shot of dalaudid for my disc once in the ER. Painkillers never affect me, but this blasted me off. I got all warm and a little sloppy. I was making the Uber driver laugh. I can see why people get addicted.
My limited personal experience with morphine went as such – immediately after injection, I felt extreme burning in my arm where the IV was set. This lasted about 5 minutes. After that, the post-surgical pain went from about 10+ to 9 and remained at that level for the next few hours until I was home and took a dose of whatever pill they gave me (oxy? I don’t entirely remember as it was a decade ago).
I think it differs for a lot of people as to what it feels like.
The chances of addiction, I cannot comment on.
You will soon figure out why people get addicted to it and crave it.
It’s one of the best feelings in the world that makes you laugh at pain. It’s that good.
Warm chocolate river filled with flower and a five headed tenticle lady sucking on every hole.
I was on a morphine line for about a day after my surgery. The device that dosed it looked like a spiral shaped balloon that had a bulge in the middle that gradually got smaller. I felt completely normal. I didn’t feel any pain even though my surgery essentially cut me in two and put me back together again with some aftermarket parts installed. I didn’t feel high, like I was in god’s presence or anything like that, I was just feeling nothing different after what my doctor called akin to getting hit by a bus except inside a hospital. So I have no increased interest in morphine, no dependency or anything, it basically didn’t even register. That could have to do with really good anesthesiologists or just my personality/physiology, but I have no warnings to give based on my first hand experience, other than I did get constipated for like a day after, but the only treatment I got for that were some plums, and that did the trick. I guess I wish they’d given me some for another, prior surgery I had a long time before where they had to give me a shot in my spine to get the pain to go down. I don’t remember that having worked very well.
Hello there, I verify all the meds you’d be given post-op all day. You’ll likely not remember much directly after surgery which is where you’ll be given the most pain meds, most people are nauseous as well, they’ll give you a combination of meds for that. When you do start to remember things and become more coherent the morphine will likely as others have described feel like a warm bath, your head may feel fuzzy, and it can have a calming/sedating effect as well as make you feel nauseous. If you are worried about taking opioids talk to your surgeon about using something like toradol for severe pain which is a potent NSAID like ibuprofen but stronger and given IV. Depending on your pain level you may not need much medication during recovery and can use Tylenol/Ibuprofen to control your pain. Cheers.
My mother in law got very confused from the morphine. My brother too. It gives a kind of dream while youre awake and you dont remember what was dream or what was real. They didnt like it, and had no addiction symptoms afterwards
The recreational users of similar drugs use a much higher dose, thats where withdrawal gets nasty
Made me feel so good. When I closed my eyes, there was just nothing, like I was floating.
It feels like a warmth that spreads through your body, from head to toe. Your skin might get itchy. Usually when I come out of surgery they don’t give me morphine, though, they give Fentanyl and Dilaudid. Those feel like nothing to me except an absence of pain, unless they give you higher doses, in which case you’ll feel like you’re flying to the moon. Painkillers post surgery will most likely just make you tired and you’ll notice an absence of pain. If you feel euphoria, stop. You are likely taking too much, and if you continue, you can become addicted to the euphoric feeling.
You feel like silly putty just melting into the surface of where you’re sitting and you are the perfect molding. Warm tingling, laziness, and a happy.
I have an unusual reaction to most opioids. They gave me a shot of morphine after surgery to remove my pericardium after a car wreck. I spent the next twelve hours in pain and puking. Granted, the constant puking took my mind away from the pain. A lot of people abuse the drug and get addicted so it must be pleasant for most people. But in retrospect I’d rather have the pain
Prob different for different people. It made feel cold and passive and hade a sweet and slightly nauseating “taste” to it. Not a fan. It did however make me able to ignore the pain of my appendix rupturing. I was waiting for surgery.
I was in a car accident. Morphine was nice as it made the pain go away but also, to me, it felt like something heavy pushing down on every part of me. Like a heavy blanket.
For me I got morphine after a surgery when the pain was unbearable and I was having low blood pressure. It basically completely drowned out the pain, and also made me extremely sleepy so I just passed out every time. I did want to get injected after I got discharged from the hospital for a few days when I was in pain, but the “craving” went away pretty quickly afterwards
I’ve had morphine after surgery once.
Felt like I was kinda floating and my brain was a fog. Like I couldn’t really feel or process anything from the outside world.
Personally I hated the feeling.
That said, I couldn’t sleep that night. I listened to “The Dark Side of the Moon” from Pink Floyd and it’s as if you unlock a level to this album. Just amazing. 10/10 would recommend. (Listening to Pink Floyd since you will be on morphine anyway, I do not recommend morphine in other contexts )
Warm and sleepy is my usual experience. I take it regularly, have tablets and a liquid to take at home if needed.
I also have an addictive personality but haven’t had a problem with having morphine on hand taking it as directed by my doctors (well not actually as much as they said I can have up to, they’ve said I can have up to a certain amount and how much I feel I need isn’t as much as that). Not any active effort not to get hooked on my pet either, it’s not like I’m avoiding taking it to try and not get hooked, I don’t really care if I do – for context I’m a stage 4 (terminal) cancer patient, so getting addicted to the morphine is the least of my worries.
It’s like sleeping in a warm bed on a day with no responsibilities while it’s raining outside mixed with a long, drawn out orgasm.
I fully understand why people choose this shit over anything else in life. But don’t recommend it.
Loved it. As soon as it hit my heart it was the best feeling spreading throughout my body.
I can understand why they gave it to soldiers on the battlefield. Euphoric
Like being kissed by God.
I have been given 10mg (high dose) of iv morphine in an ambulance after a sports injury and this is how it feelt for me:
I was nauseaus and felt sick, the pain was still there and I had no feeling of beeing high. Also hours later in the hosoital I tried to get to the toilet but could barely walk as a sideeffect
All pain, physical, and emotional vanishes. And you’re more relaxed than you’ve ever been
Then you throw up
I had morphine for a full week – I can honestly say it made me itch and sleepy. That’s it.
Don’t even think about listening to the little voice that says “just one more won’t kill you. See what it’s like!” Because that’ll lead you down a road that starts at “well I’m not addicted cause it’s been a week since I’ve taken more than needed…I’ll do that again” and, eventually, ends at “holy shit how did I get here? I am a full-blown junkie,” IF you’re one of the lucky few that gets to think that before you die from an OD. I don’t mean to be so intense, but this is exactly how it was for me, and I was one of the lucky few. I have two years sober from pills, heroin, and fentanyl now, but there were so many points where just one wrong move would’ve killed me dead, and I HATE to see somebody else start down that path
I was given a significant amount of morphine while completely sober and aware at the hospital. I made sure to make a mental note. It felt like a bit of a warm rush along with a reduction in pain. Kind of like if you had a significant amount of alcohol without it affecting your head much.
The doc told me that morphine doesn’t take away your pain, but makes you stop caring about your pain.
I also kept seeing mechanical gears when I closed my eyes. I thought that was a bit strange.
The most awesome comfortable feeling you will ever feel in your life. Simply wonderful. I can’t explain how great it is. I’m actually envious.
Feels warm and nice, like being embraced by naked angels. Thats why ppl be gettih addicted
You know when you meet someone you’re so insanely attracted to and you think, “I’m in trouble”, well.. that.
i always described it like a big fuzzy cozy robe. & you put it on but you don’t wrap yourself init, it gently wraps itself around you. & holds you. and whispers sweet nothings in your ear