My experiences with Demerol (Meperidine)
A few years back during a very stressful time in my life when it seems everything was going the wrong way, my appendix decided it had enough and wanted out of my body. After a night of vomiting and a general feeling of being hung over, I visited the doctor in the morning and asked him what was wrong. It took him about 10 seconds to tell I had appendicitis and to head to the hospital.
Once at the hospital, I was brought into the back where all the other sick people where and put on IV, later that night I was in the surgery room – my appendix got its wish. This was my first time in surgery so I figured I would try to fight off the anesthetic they gave me, so I cracked a joke to the doctor and about 1 second later I was waking up. I asked the nurse what happened and she said surgery was done, I didn’t believe her so she told me to check and surely enough, it was done.
Introduction to an opiate
I woke up the next day, not sure when but feeling so tired even though I slept all night. I asked the nurse if this was normal and she told me it was because I was on alternating IVs of antibiotics and an opioid called demerol (meperidine). I figured since I was in the hospital, I might as well experiment so I asked the nurse if she could hook me up with some morphine, I was curious about it but she told me Demerol produced similar results with less side effects. My experimentation was over and my curiosity was satisfied.
I think I was in the hospital for a total of 3 days, sometimes very alert and other times just drifting in and out of consciousness. It was a weird state, people would come visit me and I would fall asleep when I wanted to talk to them or I would try to say something but I could barely muster the strength to say it loud enough.
Suffice it to say, after 3 days being drugged at the hospital I couldn’t wait to get out. I was walking a little bit but I generally didn’t feel myself at all, I hate being in a hospital and even worse when I am a patient. Thankfully, I haven’t returned as neither since.
Second hit of opiate
About a year ago, I went in for a colonoscopy to check a few things out, the doctor who was performing the procedure mentioned the word Demerol to me for pain management but at first I refused. Around the end of the procedure, I told the doc to inject me, as I wasn’t feeling very well with too much hose up inside of me. Right after the injection, I felt very easy going – the stress just melted away and I was very relaxed.
Am I hooked?
From my two experiences with a mild opiate thus far in my life, I can easily say NO. It is probably safe to say that heroin, oxycodone (oxyContin), methadone (dolophine), morphine sulfateand and all those other opioids out there probably have a much stronger effect on the mind/ body then demerol. But for me, I actually enjoy knowing what is going on in my body, not somewhat spaced out. I enjoy the process of thinking clearly.
If you suffer from chronic pain, I can completely see the reason why opiates would be an attractive venture but if your perfectly healthy, I fail to see the point.
The Bottom Line
I can’t fathom the attraction to being strung out like I was for 3 days at the hospital and calling that a life. My two sisters seem to, and it even cost one of them their life, but I guess that I either physical or mental block as to craving or wanting that type of lifestyle. That is a good thing
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yeah well i have a chronic illness & morphine sucks,i preferr demerol or diludid
u guys need to stop taking dat chit dats why theres so many people dying cause of dat chit dats wat micheal jackson took right be4 he died n look wat happen to him ya think its a joke taking dat chit ya risking ya live everytime ya take 1 RIP MICHEAL JACKSON
It wouldn’t surprise me if he was on something similar to this… imaging going from crowds in the hundreds of thousands calling your name to being alone in a room. The brain just can’t deal with that much change and, sadly, like Elvis before him, drugs seem to be the only way to cope.
Jon
Chronic pain can ruin your life, unfortunately. I have had to deal with crushing neck pain due to the heavy bruxism (grinding and gnashinf of the teeth in sleep)… I have been on morphine for about a year and a half now. A relatively low dose, but one that could kill someone who is not opiod tolerant. Morphine has allowed me to continue working and also has allowed me some bit of normalcy in my life. Unfortunately, my wife was adamantly against western medicine, and she divorced me after 3 years of our life together. She thought of me as “weak” because I couldn’t take the pain of multiple cervical herniated disks and spurs, and all the stuff that comes along with it. I’ve now come to the conclusion that I am better off without her, and that I need to do my best to keep my chin up, keep trying to exercise and instead of fighting, try to ‘ go with the flow’… thankfully, while still in pain, I am feeling better and the depression is starting to dissipate a bit. My doctors’ office sometimes makes me out to be a junky of some sort, stating that I enjoyed the “euphoria” when frankly all I wanted was relief from some of the pain. I have grown to realize, after 4 different pain management centers, that they are under so much pressure from the feds that you are going to be either one of two states: under-medicated, or over-medicated. I’m in the latter column. At this point, after sailing my boat through depression and past suicide island… I’m forcing myself to relax as much as possible and praying to God that he will help me stop the Bruxism..I also spent about 400 on a EMG device that will beep while I am sleepuing to wake me up..>I hope it works.
Drugs have their use, as you are a testament to… problems arise when they are used out of their intended original purpose. As for me, I couldn’t wait to get off of them, it made me feel so weak and that was only for a few days. I am unable to imagine how I would feel after a few years on these meds.
Jon