AIBU To have not realised that diamorphine...

[Mammagaga]

... IS actually heroin :-0 am I the only person who thought it was diluted morphine?!

All nerve deadening drugs (novacaine, epidurals etc) are derived from the same place as cocaine.

I had a big dose in my first labour and 6 weeks later when Harold Shipman was on trial, I had a meltdown cos I'd not known either. I kept seeing the missing rabbit from the nursery in the corner. It was not pleasant. When I had ds I got small doses, every so often and it really helped.

Another vote for diamorphine and oramorph. I had diamorphine before the birth (was an early labour they were trying to put the brakes on) and then oramorph after my C-section. Both were bloody lovely!

YANBU!

I found out that diamorphine was in fact heroin when I was about 34 weeks pregnant. I very quickly changed my birth plan to say absolutely no diamorphine (or pethidine for that matter). Unfortunately, my birth plan went out of the window when I needed an emergency c section. I remember being in the operating theatre when they were giving me a spinal, and I overheard them saying 'get x ml of diamorphine ready' - or words to that effect. Couldn't have cared less at that point, and I didn't feel any pain so it must have worked!

oooh, co-codamol was nice and snoozy-feeling... Pethidine is shit though, just made me sick and angry. I agree about buying gas and air being a good idea, though, lol

I had morphine after my EMCS and it was the best thing ever (was still a bit drugged from the c-section). After it wore off I remember I was offered it when I was awake and I declined because I thought it would not be safe when breastfeeding (it doesn't affect breastfeeding I found out later).

Gas and air... Lovely too, I had it when I couldn't take another fisting (sorry, but they couldn't reach my cervix and I was in pain).

I am so glad I have never tried any illegal drugs I can see now how easily someone can get addicted.

Haha, I also had a nurse in hospital say (when I buzzed for more morphine) 'no dear, I think we will give you a tramadol and Paracetomol instead, I don't think you are in that much pain are you'

She was right. I just wanted more morphine. It was delicious.

Made me as sick as a dog and itchy as hell but it was a lovely sensation.

Quite disappointed that I didn't have pethidine in labour, just for the buzz.

The Daily Mail is currently full of terrible drug related stories of people getting smashed in Ibiza and Thailand etc.

Next headline will be 'selfish labouring mothers demanding DRUGS for their own depraved pleasure'

i had pethedine, phenergan, and morphine in a difficult pre elamptic labour.

DS didnt wake up for 3 days!

I knew, that's why I was furious when they told me after giving it to me as they had to sort out my PPH (sorry tmi) after having ds. At least tell me what they're putting in to me!

Well, I had no idea about this.

I had it during my first labour in 2003, and I absolutely hated it. I was still in agony, but felt so out of it that I couldn't talk properly. I had the bloody theme tune from Rainbow going round my head, and everything was either dark or fuzzy.

After ds1 finally arrived, I was rushed to theatre for stitching with an epidural. The drugs were still doing their thing, and I was alternating between flirting with the aneathatist, swearing at the consultant and sobbing.

It took the whole night for me to come down - I was itching and seeing rainbows in the recovery ward.

Mmmm, I luffs morphine. Had a very pleasant afternoon once after a gallbladder flare up on morphine. So relaxing! Tramadol doesn't work on me at all though. I've had tramadol twice this year, both times after surgery and it didn't even touch the pain . Drs didn't believe that I was still in pain though and I had to ask for ages to be given something else . I've since found a medical study which suggests around 10% of people don't respond to tramadol.

When I asked my midwife she said they are nw beginning to favour diamorphine over pethidineas the effects on mum and baby are slightly better. Not sure how true that is. Violently allergic to morphine so was refused pain meds on the grounds it was too risky for ds during labour!

I have tramadol and morphine every day which is great at first but I hardly notice the effects now

I was given morphine after an operation at 15. My mum and dad came to visit and I was scratching my nose like nobody's business and I whispered to my mum "have you seen the chickens? The nurses think they're patients. Oh and the doctors wear really weird space suits, they look like tin men." My dad who had a "colourful" youth couldn't stop laughing...like a chip off the old block, he said.

My mum was furious and demanded I was taken off it. Bitch.

Oh, and in labour with ds1, on gas and air I shouted really loudly "this is the shit. Better than being stoned!"

can you become allergic? Because I had a morphine drip after spinal surgery (absolute bliss for 5 days while DH and inlaws coped with 2 under 4s). Then I had oramorph 10 years later after breaking my leg in 2 places, and although it was a great painkiller it made me itch life fuck.

All posters who didn't know obviously never saw the euthanasia storyline in Brookie. :o

I had some and g&a when the spinal wore off half way through my elcs, thank fuck for opiates I say! I could still feel way more than I wanted to though

I take Tramadol when my pain gets really bad, once or twice a week. It dulls the pain, but I don't get any trippy effects!

I was send home with masses of the stuff ( please don't sell it on the street, dear"), and discovered that although it makes me as itchy and as constipated as hell, it goes magnificently with red wine.

I blush when I remember "negotiating" with the nurse when she came to take my self-administering push-button thing away. Her roar of laughter made me realise that I wasn't the first to try and keep the heroin.
Thank Fuck I never had access to it before or since!

I didn't get it for any if my 3 labours and am very disappointed. I want to have been Lizard Queen or the Actual Queen. I know I would have loved it. Fucking NCT talking me into a drug free labour.

I ruddy loved gas and air. And my v. Kindly midwife let me hold on to it while she was weighing DS3 and gave me a morphine enema because I'd been so brave. I'm still a bit in love with her. I drifted off and imagined I was out shopping. Then DH reminded me I had a newborn to feed . Magically memories.

codeine is weird though, it makes me feel as if the bones in my upper arms are made of cotton wool emoticon

I like codeine and tramadol, I've never thought I was someone else though! I can't have been doing it right