How often and how severe the side effects are can vary from person to person. They also depend on what other treatment you are having. For example, your side effects could be worse if you are also having other drugs or radiotherapy. Your doctor or nurse will go through the possible side effects. They will monitor you closely during treatment and check how you are at your appointments. Contact your advice line as soon as possible if:. We haven't listed all the side effects here.
Remember it is very unlikely that you will have all of these side effects, but you might have some of them at the same time. You might have one or more of them. They include:. Constipation is easier to sort out if you treat it early. Drink plenty of fluids and eat as much fresh fruit and vegetables as you can.
Try to take gentle exercise, such as walking. Tell your doctor or nurse if you are constipated for more than 3 days. They can prescribe a laxative.
Cancer drugs can interact with some other medicines and herbal products. Tell your doctor or pharmacist about any medicines you are taking. This includes vitamins, herbal supplements and over the counter remedies. It is not known whether this treatment affects fertility in people. Talk to your doctor before starting treatment if you think you may want to have a baby in the future. This treatment may harm a baby developing in your womb.
It is important not to become pregnant while you are having treatment. Talk to your doctor or nurse about effective contraception before starting treatment. People taking morphine for weeks or months can develop a physical dependence on the drug. This causes withdrawal symptoms if the drug is stopped. Your doctor or nurse will advise you how to reduce the morphine dose gradually if necessary. Don't stop taking morphine suddenly. Some people can also develop a psychological dependence addiction to morphine.
This may be more likely in people who have problems with alcohol or drug use. For further information about this treatment go to the electronic Medicines Compendium eMC website. Coping with cancer can be difficult.
There is help and support available. Not everyone has pain in the last few weeks of life. But if you do, there are usually effective ways of controlling it. Everyone feels pain differently. There are different painkillers for different types of pain. If you have trouble swallowing or are being sick, you can have painkillers as an injection or through a syringe pump.
These drugs include morphine, diamorphine and oxycodone. A syringe pump is a small portable pump that can be used to give medicines.
It is sometimes called a syringe driver. In the last few weeks of life, you may find it harder to swallow medicines. Your doctor or nurse may suggest using a syringe pump to help you get the medicines you need. You can have painkillers, anti-sickness medicines, anti-anxiety medicines and several other medicines through a syringe pump.
You might worry you will need to take increasing doses of strong painkillers as you near the end of your life. It is important to remember not everyone will have pain that gets worse. There is no right dose of morphine. The right dose is the dose that helps your pain. Specialist palliative care doctors and nurses have lots of experience in managing pain. They can help make sure you have the right dose of painkillers to control your pain, without too many side effects.
Your GP or cancer doctor can refer you to a specialist. We have more information about these and other side effects of painkillers. There are other things that may help control pain — these can be used alongside painkillers:.
We have more information about these ways of controlling pain. Your illness, or your medicines, may make you feel sick nausea or be sick vomit. If this happens, your doctor or nurse can prescribe anti-sickness drugs anti-emetics , which usually help. Our information about nausea and vomiting includes different ways to take anti-emetics and other ways of managing this symptom. You may lose weight, even if you are eating well. This can be upsetting. You may find your appetite reduces over time, because:.
As you near the end of your life, your body slows down. It does not need food, as it cannot digest it or absorb nutrients from it. Do not force yourself to eat. This could make you feel unwell. Medicines, such as steroids, can sometimes boost your appetite. Your doctor can prescribe these if they are suitable for you. Your family and friends might feel anxious or upset because you no longer feel hungry or enjoy food.
Talk to them about what you would like to eat or drink. This means they will know the best things to offer you. Many people find they get constipated more easily, because they are not moving around or eating and drinking as much. Medicines such as strong painkillers can also cause constipation.
We have more information about constipation. Some people may feel breathless. Breathlessness can be very frightening. But there are things that can help, depending on what is causing it. Nurses can show you and your carers the best positions for you to sit or stand to help with your breathing. They can also teach you how to breathe more effectively, plan your activities and save your energy.
Breathlessness may make you feel anxious. This can make your breathing feel even more difficult. Your nurse or a physiotherapist can teach you ways to relax, so that you feel less anxious and breathless.
If you are not moving around very much, you may get sore areas. For example, you may get sore on your bottom or heels. Your district nurse can arrange equipment to help prevent this, such as a pressure-relieving cushion for your chair or a mattress for your bed.
You can also help to ease soreness by changing your position regularly, if you can. You may have a cough or feel wheezy. This can be tiring and upsetting. Your doctor can prescribe medicines to help with these symptoms. You may find it helpful to sit as upright as possible, supported on pillows. This may also help you breathe more easily. Some medicines can make these problems worse. Looking after your mouth is important and can help prevent mouth problems.
Tell your nurse or doctor if you develop any mouth problems, so they can help. Water tablets diuretics can sometimes help get rid of the fluid. Your doctor can tell you if they may be suitable for you.
Your appearance may change as your illness progresses. For example, you might put on or lose weight. You may find it helpful to talk about your feelings with your carers or nurses. They may be able to help you find ways to look and feel better. We have more information about changes to your appearance. Anaemia can make you very tired and breathless.
If you are anaemic, your doctor or nurse may suggest you have a blood transfusion if they think it will help. You usually have this as a day patient in a hospital or hospice.
You may have problems passing urine peeing or controlling your bladder. A nurse can put a thin, flexible tube catheter into the bladder to drain the urine. This can also help you avoid the discomfort of using a bedpan or bottle if you cannot get out of bed. This is called ascites. Your GP or specialist palliative care nurse can talk to you about ways to treat ascites. Some types of cancer can cause high calcium levels in the blood.
This is called hypercalcaemia. It can:. If you develop these symptoms, tell your nurse or doctor. They can do a blood test to check your calcium levels. If your calcium level is high, your doctors may give you medicines to help reduce it. These are called bisphosphonates. You have them through a drip. You will need to be in hospital or a hospice for a few days. Usually, it is possible to manage your symptoms at home.
But sometimes it can help to have them treated in a hospital or hospice for a few days or weeks. Your community palliative care team, district nurse or GP will talk to you about this if they think it would help. Being in the hospital or hospice means the doctors and nurses can assess your symptoms better. There have been some rare occasions when patients have survived for a couple of weeks or more. The main point to remember is that the administering of morphine is for pain relief and the objective of the nursing staff will be to keep the patient comfortable and pain free.
Morphine syringe drivers are usually used because it is difficult to administer pain relief in other ways such as orally. The driver will give regular and equal amounts of morphine shots which should ensure that the patient feels no pain. Yes, I think as a morphine derivative Yes, I think as a morphine derivative. Opioids, i think. Yes, morphine affects the fetes even more than you think. Because the morphine goes through the placenta, the fetus is exposed to the morphine and actually gets addicted to it.
Misuse of morphine could also result in a spontaneous abortion or a miscarriage. NoThe tube inside of a syringe is used as a piston which is technically a simple machine to create air pressure to inject and withdraw fluid.
I think what you are asking is "what is the Greek mythological origin for Morphine". The name "morphine" is rooted in the Greek personification of the dream state, Morpheus. His name means "shaper" as he was the shaper of dreams. I think so. I am sure I have in my last surgery. When you cannot think of anything but your next dose! Think about what happens to the gas air inside the syringe when the temperature decreases. As the gas cools it will occupy a smaller volume and thus the syringe plunger will move DOWN the barrel.
I don't know for sure how to do this, having never done it myself, but I think I know how, though be sure to check with someone who knows before you do anything. I think that you get whatever it is you are feeding the kitten in the syringe, and then you squirt it ,or whatever ,into the kitten's mouth. Yes I think so, that's what it said on Google. They are, however, very similar. In fact, I believe that the rush from heroin is actually lots of morphine being formed from heroin being metabolised.
The levels of morphine in the blood from this are higher than you could obtain from plain morphine. I think Another name for heroin is diacetylmorphine. Morphine has two OH groups on its molecule. These are replaced with acetyl groups to form heroin. It means to give an injection now.
Think of "pushing" a plunger on a syringe. I don't think you could. Meperidine is generic for Demerol which in fact is very similar to Morphine so what do you think?
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