I passed the stone about 10 minutes later, and after some tests I went out for some beers. There’s really nothing in my experience finer than morphine.

I had a root canal courtesy of the US Navy. No problem there. However, I couldn’t get an appointment to get the crown before the tooth split (we’re talking more than a month here). So they extracted it. It is NOT a good sign when you sit down in the chair, and they BLINDFOLD you before they go to work. With chisels.

As for effects on me, I felt absolutely no pain whatsoever. I was expecting it to put me to sleep, but I ended up completely wired and was up until 4am the day of the “surgery”/excavation.

I was too “up”* to rest or even read quietly, so I ended up becoming a blogger (non-political), though I still have yet to write on the evils of government health care.

* The way I would describe the feeling would be along the lines of drinking about 5 espressos using ephedrine as a heavy creamer.

Do get well soon.

Welcome back.

And yes, for the acutely injured and opiate naive, morphine can have a variety of unintended, but wholly negative effects.

Here:…” (I suppose they want to discourage the addiction that comes from those IV drips.)”

Um, no.

The risk of making someone an “addict” is exceedingly low, or rare.(Porter J, Jick H. Addiction rare in patients treated with narcotics. N Engl J Med 1980; 302: 123)

In the acute setting, there is even low risk of developing dependency, let alone addiction.

The reasons for and against using IV morphine are many. One way to give IV morphine is through a pump, often via so-called “Patient Controlled Analgesia” or PCA-pump, where the patient triggers the delivery of the drug, when they want, within, of course, set parameters.

In any case, good cheer all around.

Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

MTT

I was on morphine for 3 days as far as I remember…but unfortunately I don’t remember much, except for the aliens from planet Xenon who visited me. Not to exciting.

I’ve never required more than a Vicodin (knock wood), but I did have some limited experience with “recreational” hallucinogens back in the day. I always kind of envied people who went “tripping”. The closest I ever came was watching It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World on TV with three friends and we were lying on the floor because we literally were laughing so hard we couldn’t maintain upright positions. Gee, those were the days.

Anyhow, your morphea induced trip to the past sounds like it was quite productive. I look forward to reading.

And, of course, more wishes for continued smooth progress with your recovery.

My trips to the Twilight Zone were during some corneal transplants I had done in 1984 (right eye) and in 1986 (left eye). I don’t know what those guys at the U of M gave me, but it heightened my awareness of things to such a level, I thought I was a telepath or something. It was a WEIRDDD feeling indeed.