Strongest Painkillers

[Smowball]

What is the strongest a doctor will prescribe?? And I clearly can’t buy stronger than co codamol. I’m really struggling - I don’t understand why the pain has suddenly escalated to this level but I can’t cope with it for many more hours.

[Jackdaw33]

There are two strengths of Co-codamol, 8/500 which you can buy, and 30/500 available only on prescription. The first figure is the amount of codeine.

[Smowball]

Right ok, I don’t understand why this pain has suddenly escalated to this level but I’m really struggling. X

[waterboatman]

See your GP smow. xxx

[Buenchico]

Quote:
"Morphine and morphine-like drugs (such as oxycodone, fentanyl and buprenorphine) are the strongest painkillers there are.

Depending on your individual circumstances, these types of painkiller may be prescribed as a patch, an injection, or sometimes in a pump you control yourself.

But they all work in similar ways and should only be used for severe pain.

They'll only be prescribed after consultation with a doctor or a pain specialist. The dose and your response will be closely monitored"

Source:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/which-painkiller-to-use/

There's more about morphine here:
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/morphine/

I've only ever been given morphine once, when I had to call a doctor out on Boxing Day due to me suffering from orchitis. (It's the swelling of a testicle to several times its normal size. If a man can ever experience a pain like that of childbirth, orchitis must come very close to it!). The doctor gave me tablets straight from his bag, rather than from a pharmacy, and repeatedly warned me that taking a double dose would be fatal. (He insisted on calling in a witness to his warnings too). I took just one tablet and, within a very short space of time, my whole body had gone completely numb. (Think of what your gum feels like when a dentist gives you an anaesthetic injection and then expand that to the whole of your body; you could have plunged a knitting needle anywhere into my body and I wouldn't have felt it!)

So there are some very strong painkillers available from your GP but he/she certainly won't rush to offer them to you.

I hope that you find some relief soon. (If your GP's surgery doesn't open on Saturdays, try calling 111 to see if they'll refer you to an out-of-hours GP).

[Smowball]

Walked into my doctors yesterday which is opposite my house and said can I please just see the doctor for 30 seconds. They said no, we’re fully booked - there was nobody in the waiting room!!

[Smowball]

God Buenchico that sounds horrendous!!

[emmie]

can you call 111 and see what they can offer you

[emmie]

going on my brother who tore his shoulder and still suffers with the pain takes tramadol prescribed by the doctor, he says its very effective.

[Smowball]

Morning emmie hun, I’m going to have to do something. I’m a pretty tough cookie and it sounds over dramatic but I’ve literally been sat been crying in pain - my hand is literally pulsating/throbbing and it’s just horrendous..

[emmie]

i would give them a ring, if worse comes to it can you go to the hospital?

[waterboatman]

Go to the nearest outpatients smow. Now.

[emmie]

on reflection i would go if you can to nearest hospital, do you have to drive there? if so can you drive with your hand.

[Smowball]

I was at the hospital for therapy on Wednesday and had all x rays re done, everything. Bones still broke obviously but nothing had moved or changed so that’s why I don’t uNderstand this sudden horrendous pain.

[emmie]

then go back to hospital at least for some stronger pain relief.

[waterboatman]

It needs looking at smow. A&E NOW!!!

[emmie]

go now, its just after 6, it may well be a bit quieter...

[Buenchico]

111 might be a better option than A&E. (It's also the 'official' route that you're meant to go down).

If you go to A&E you could end up waiting hours to be seen. If 111 will refer you to an out-of-hours GP, you could be seen within minutes.

[waterboatman]

Good point Chris.

[emmie]

out of hours doctor won't necessarily come to you. depends on where you are, you have to go to ours, which isn't always possible. I know because i had to get some pain relief

[emmie]

i would go to A&E