AIBU To have not realised that diamorphine...

[Mammagaga]

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

I wasn't offered it in labour had it before after a riding accident and during a complicated miscarriage though was amazing stuff.

I shamed myself with g&a I loved it so much with dd1 when I had dd2 she was nearly born on the pavement by the time the midwives got hold of me she was already out but dh has a video of the following

"Can I have gas and air? "

Mw "but babies here love"

"Yes but I didn't get any g&a, can I have mine now"

Lovely Mw "erm suppose so"

"DH don't let me drop dd2 I've got jelly arms"

Ah codeine too...had that for kidney stones ...can't remember feeling out of it etc but I suspect I was ....
...did manage to arrive late and then only attempt half of a chemistry A level mock (mature student) - only realised it was a double sided A4 sheet 5 min before the end - had sat there for best part of 1.5 hrs puzzling over why everyone else was still busy working away ...

"Can I have gas and air? "

Mw "but babies here love"

Am I the only one who thought gas and air did fuck all during labour, but the mouthpiece was quite good to bite on?

I was 2 weeks overdue, waters had broken, contracting and was given diamorphine to slow things down and send me to sleep. They were having a busy night!
The doctor who saw me the next morning went berserk.
I was still in a hazy little world of my own and didn't realise what was happening until I read my notes later on.

DD2 was a two-hour home birth, so the second midwife didn't arrive until after she was born and I didn't get any G&A either .

I think I might have registered my disappointment too?

Haha purrpurr, pretty much snap. I always joke about it giving me a taste for the stuff (it really did though!).

I loved the gas and air,it was truly wonderful stuff.
When I broke my hip I was given morphine and something else I can't remember what it was called (probably cause the old morphine has addled my brain). It was the best month of my life,although there are chunks of time missing.

I was given morphine last week to try to discourage DD from arriving. I hate it, makes me feel sick, and god, the itch!
DD is here now and as with DS1 & 2 I am very much enjoying my tramadol!

I was stuffed so full of opiates after an operation a couple of years ago that DH and an ICU nurse had to take turns to wake me up to breathe. I was so happy and warm and sleepy. I can easily see how an addict could die if they got access to medical-grade stuff. After I left the ICU I was put on a 5-minute button press thing, which was useless. I'd get dosed up enough to sleep, would drift off and then wake up 20 minutes later in agony because, as I kept trying to explain to the nurse who told me I just needed to keep pressing the button, I am not able to press buttons in my sleep

I am allergic to Codeine. Even handling the tablets makes my hands and arms come out in hives which has been problematic because I am a nurse. I develop anaphylaxis if I am given it.

Other opiates though; no problem ....

My dsis was given oramorph a couple of months ago but it didn't help with her pain at all, she swears by tramadol though.

When I had oramorph before getting a massive abscess drained it was great. I knew that it really hurt but I didn't care, it also didn't bother me when the doctor said that he needed a much bigger needle. I was all floaty.

Midori - Congratulations on your new pg I had remi with DD4 and that coupled with G&A meant it was actually painfree as opposed to so much pain I had a seizure.

Top tip - as soon as a contraction ends hit the remi button as it takes a few minutes to work and you get pain coverage before the next one starts.

The itching is awful. Just awful. I have scars on my back from scratching furiously in my sleep.

Welsh midwives minnie, a very reasonable bunch I feel

morphine makes me hurl copiously so I declined it after my cs as I didn't fancy chucking with a gash in my belly. I just lay there writhing in pain chomping down on paracetamol while my fellow c-sectioners lie there looking all blissed out and smug. very jealous I was!

Pobble, yes, me.

Arbitrary yes, awful. But better than the pain.