We are having a rather lazy Sunday after a very trying week
Just to explain, I had an awful pain in my right foot and a rash on my legs with swollen feet and ankles so the GP prescribed an antibiotic and a painkiller. The painkiller was opioid based (Dihydrocodeine) and seems to have had 2 effects;
1) constipated me to the extent that my stomach intruded up against my diaphragm and affected my breathing – I have a slight impact on my breathing from MND but as I am so slow it is taking its time to get worse so I was very scared when I woke up in the middle of the night feeling breathless
Sorting out the constipation has been a very messy process given my mobility and our facilities
2) seems to have had some sort of mental effect in that in the deep of it on Wednesday and Thursday mornings (early a.m. 4 AM et cetera) that I began to think about not wanting to go on. On Friday morning once my constipation cleared and presumably as the painkiller cleared my system, it felt like a cloud had lifted.
I will be talking to my counsellor from the Mountbatten Hospice when he comes for his fortnightly visit about this.
Just to explain, I had an awful pain in my right foot and a rash on my legs with swollen feet and ankles so the GP prescribed an antibiotic and a painkiller. The painkiller was opioid based (Dihydrocodeine) and seems to have had 2 effects;
1) constipated me to the extent that my stomach intruded up against my diaphragm and affected my breathing – I have a slight impact on my breathing from MND but as I am so slow it is taking its time to get worse so I was very scared when I woke up in the middle of the night feeling breathless
Sorting out the constipation has been a very messy process given my mobility and our facilities
2) seems to have had some sort of mental effect in that in the deep of it on Wednesday and Thursday mornings (early a.m. 4 AM et cetera) that I began to think about not wanting to go on. On Friday morning once my constipation cleared and presumably as the painkiller cleared my system, it felt like a cloud had lifted.
I will be talking to my counsellor from the Mountbatten Hospice when he comes for his fortnightly visit about this.
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