Edited Date/Time
5/27/2015 2:04pm
I cased a huge table to single and broke my back really bad awhile ago. I fractured my L 3 horizontal only a few mm from all the way and broke off a huge chunk of bone that lodged into a nerve. I also burst two discs and bulged two. I was laying on the track paralyzed, no feeling in my legs on a blind landing. Pee was coming out as I bear crawled to the side. I felt the feeling come back and was able to get helped up. I told a guy I could not even try and start my bike so he did and I got on and actually rode a wheelie on way to the trailer. I pulled in and couldn't get off and needed help. My buddy drove home. I went to doctor and we did tests and he gave me an injection. He knew I did not like pain meds but he wrote me two scripts and he gave me two boxes of 5 Fentanyl patches and put two on my arm. We got the scripts filled of pain pills and I ate a few. That night I was hurting so bad it was incredible. The doctor suggests I remove the fentanyl patches from arm and put two near my heart. In the morning I'm on the floor in and out of consciousness and my mom comes by and calls ambulance. At the hospital I get wheeled into the hall way and left there. I'm in fetal position and throwing up on a cart in hallway. I notice the nurse holding the two fentinol boxes that are held together by the script for ten, five in each box but I had used four. She comes over and says, "we all know your not hurt, you just want pain meds. You got these yesterday and nine are gone" I couldn't even speak and it was like I was in a nightmare. She was accusing me of being a addict and I don't even drink. Well my mom points out that there is five in one box and one in the other and why and then she gives the lady my two FULL pain pill bottles and says, "what kind of junkie brings all his pain meds in and hasn't even taken hardly any?" Right then the nurse said OMG we are so sorry. They instantly wheel me in a private room and hook me up to the delaudid drip and the pain subsides. The surgeon said I should have never been able to take one step. Surgery was a complete success.
Second, your "buddy back surgeon" who "did some tests" and gave you an injection is a world-class moron and should have his medical license revoked, assuming he even has one.
Lastly, you proceeded to "eat a few" of your fentanyl patches after putting two on your arm? Do you have any idea how dangerous fentanyl is? Probably not, judging by how stupid everything in this post sounds.
You are lucky you didn't stop breathing.
When you said you ate a few. What does that mean. Did you actually ingest them? Drug seekers do this. They suck on them to get messed up. If you ate them you're an asshole. The box tells you for EPIDERMIC USE ONLY. DO NOT INGEST.
I can't tell you the drug and alcohol dependent patients I take care of that withdraw to the point where they are intubated for three weeks and cannot be weaned. Trached and then they just die a few months later from sepsis.
Fentanyl patches aren't anything to mess with. Fentanyl inhibits your drive to breathe and can easily be toxic to someone who is straight edged. You're lucky. And if you were my patient immediately I would suspect you're a drug addict and talk about it with the physicians treating you. I wouldn't of accused you but in your medical record it would of been noted.
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Also he did my surgery and would trust him with my life.
Hook em up to a monitor. Look at their visual cues. Your wife heart rate is probably sky high because she's truly in pain. . And her blood pressure would be well above her usual.
People that drug seek have vital signs that don't differ much from their usual trending vital signs. Or what's cinsidered to be normal.
Those monitors tell me whether you're really in pain or you're not. It's not all subjective. There are a lot of objective evidence to consider....
And FLmxer im so glad you weren't eating patches. This really happens. They put them in like a dip.
Pit Row
Back in 08 I was doing union refractory work and we had to do a month stint in Mississippi relining a chlorinator. Anyways I got this pain in my side/stomach area and thought I got ahold of some bad food. Finished the shift went back to the hotel and started feeling like dogshit. Next morning was bad and called in to work. I ended up going to the ER around 7pm and they said I had ACID REFLUX lol sent me packing at about 10pm back to the hotel room.
I called my wife and gave her the news and ranted about how these fucker are wrong lol. So my wife starts playing DR and comes up with the idea that my appendix has ruptured. So I go back at around 4am and tell the ER lady that I think my shit busted. I must of looked pretty damn bad because her eyes got huge and they rushed me to the back.
Long story short. My appendix had indeed busted spilling bacteria into my abdomen for around 24-36 hrs. I had an emergency appendectomy, spent a 1.5 weeks in the hospital and because the infection was so bad I had to go home with a 7'' incision open so it could heal from the inside out. I looked like a gutted pig. The whole time the DR said you fool you came real close to killing yourself.
Worst thing I have ever been thru. I was 6'2'' and about 225 dropped down to 192 and my stomach was huge like those african kids that are starving and on top of all that I couldn't shit to save my life. Pain pills fuck you up when it comes to pooping.
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