Posted by helpme on July 8, 2006, at 10:35:29
In reply to Re: weird question re: painkiller from surgery, posted by tessellated on July 7, 2006, at 18:51:24
Interesting- and I am speculating here, mainly, why a gum surgery resulted in a severe and sudden mood tank. This was a few years ago, and I can't recall the name of the painkillers- but they were hardcore, and through an IV. The IV drugs were only used during the surgery which took about perhaps, 2-3 hopurs, and then I took vicoden for about a week. My mood became suicidal out oof the blue, and I got mixed up with a heinously incompetent psychiatrist at that point who put me on all sorts of drug combos, and I think that's what really messed me up for the long run. But after hearing a couple anectodal reports about painkillers used in surgery triggering psychotic depressions in some people- and a suspicion of fentynyl being the offender- I started getting curious.
I recently had another procedure-much more minor- where they used only morphine (I'm on an MAOI now and that was the safe painkiller to use), but I suffered absolutely no ill effects. If anything, it was blissful- shame you can't just use it as a sleep aid or whatever!
> i've seen family members in ICU and CCU go into pscyosis with hi dose morphine/fentanyl and ativan (a benzo).
> How many days were you on it?
> You may have formed a short addiction/withdrawly.
> Which can take 2-5-7 days to completely wear off.
>
> Otherwise it may have been other psychological aspects.
>
> This is very unusual: what dose, what med, and how long IV, how long oral e tc would help to determinge if its a withdrawl,
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