Is MORPHINE normal after giving birth?

[YourMajesty]

I'm a nurse...you may not have been dreaming.



Just kidding!!! Just kidding!!!

Did you ever work in Oklahoma I also had movies flashbacks...."help me Obi Wan Kenobi ...you're my only hope". On the more gruesome side was the fugitives wife calling 911... "Richard...Richard...he's trying to kill me".

 

[BethanyF]

I had morphine after my c-section too. The itching was terrible, although I didnt even realize I was trying to scratch my skin off until the nurse offered me something for the itching.
I think I used the morphine button for about 12 hours after surgery, maybe less. I was walking (slowly) through the halls within 24 hours. Went home with Motrin 2 1/2 days after he was born.

 

[aprilgail2]

Here they keep you 4 days when you have a c-section....I was actually glad though sice my daugher wasn't ready to come home until the night of the 4th day, I would have had to went home without her. There was a bit of pain getting out of bed the first time but I wouldn't have taken pain meds just for that, it was not so unbearable that I felt I had to take anything....but everyones pain level is different... I came home on a Monday night I think and Tuesday morning I was out in the mall shopping for preemie clothes and formula for my new baby!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

They had me on a morphine drip after my first c-section. NEVER AGAIN!!! I had the scariest hallucinations, I'm talking VERY SCARY, demonic-type hallucinations.

I had back surgery for scoliosis when I was 9. I was put on a morphine pump. The hallucinations were the scariest things I have even endured in my life! I would open my eyes and I'd be in my grandmother's kitchen cooking with her. I would snap out of it a few minutes later and cry because it scared me to death.

I felt zero pain though

 

[lisajl]

No morphine here when i had my C-section. I just took tylenol-3 and was fine.
Maybe she is in more pain.

Lisa

 

[MeanLaureen]

I dunno. I take Morphine on a daily basis for pain management along with 3 other pain killers. I know it's closely regulated but if it's not enough to handle what I'm going through, I'm sure it's not too much for a C-Section.

 

[BethanyF]

Here they keep you 4 days when you have a c-section....

It was my choice to leave after 2 1/2 days.
I had him late Thursday night and by Sunday afternoon I was begging them to let me go home. They did offer (and suggest) I stay another night since the insurance would pay. But I was fine and Sam was fine so the doctors approved our release.

 

[nativetxn]

Morphine doesn't work on me, isn't that sad? Found that out with my first emergency surgery. Boy, do nurses give you funny looks when you tell them not to give you morphine. I am probably profiled as a drug addict at these hospitals.

I had Demerol/Phenergan and then Percodan. Of course, this was back in 1975. I'm sure the protocols have changed a lot since then.

Katholyn

 

[Disney Doll]

Well, a c-section is still considered abdominal surgery, so Morphine for pain post-op would not be out of the ordinary, for the first 24 hours or so.

Now, if she is still needing it 2-3 weeks from now, I'd say there might be a problem.