My son broke his leg badly last week and had surgery to realign the break and then insert a rod from knee to ankle. While in hospital he was on 10mg Oramorph 4-hourly from Monday morning. We were released Wednesday lunchtime with Oramorph and the discharge notes say to continue with the Oramorph for five days but with 5mg (2.5ml in a syringe). I did this to the end of the following Monday (so three days ago) so he had the full five days.
He woke yesterday and today feeling nauseous and today has a headache. So I'm wondering if I should have weaned him off rather than stopping dead. The doctors didn't tell me too and NHS advice is for weaning after taking 'for a few weeks'. He was on it for 8 full days.
Spoke to my mum this morning (retired nurse and my sense of reason) who said might be worth giving him a reduced dose today (2mg so 1ml in the syringe) to see whether that helps. But thought I'd see if anyone has been in this situation before?
He's non weight bearing and not been sleeping particularly well probably due to the bandage from toe to mid thigh. Stitches out Monday. Having daily anticoagulant jabs too plus paracetomal and brufen. He is 16, 6ft 6 and 96kg so not really child sized. But still has child innards.
Any thoughts?