morphine

[VICKIE1954]

I posted a quetion a few days ago about my sister, she was using 500mg of morphine a day in pill form. she has been on this amount for about 3 yrs. she has RA.
she is now in the hospital. dose anyone know if morphine can cause  seizures? becouse last night. she had 3 of them.they have moved her to ICU. right now I am just so worried and scared for her .
the dr dot think that the morphine causedthem but have taken her off the morphine anyways o check. if ANYONE HAS ANY INFO OR CAN HELP PLEASE LET ME KNOW
THANK  VICKIE

[jessiva]

Vickie I do know for fact that youre not supposed to take morphine if you have any sort of pressure on the brain . I know becuase i have a brain tumor , and my doc wont let me use morphine,oxys..exct... little did he know I have been an addict for years.Morphine use can cause siezures for some people like me. have the doc do a cat scan on your sister.

[WillNotDie]

It is generally understood that opiates like Morphine do not cause siezures either in use or withdrawl.

Alcohol withdrawl does... you might investigate her consumption?

One thing I have seen in Morphine and Dilaudid (synthetic Morphine) is altered mental status called Paranoid Delusions. People believe others are stalking or trying to hurt them. But this is nothing like a siezure.

Siezures are a serious malfunction in the brain which cannot be faked, and are not easily brought on.

Good Luck!

[avisg]

It can cause sezuires but if she has been sick for weeks there most likely something else going on..
I hope you all figure out what is going on and that she gets well fast...Plz let me know how she is ..
avis

[VICKIE1954]

yes they know the high dose that she is on and as far as withdrawls , i dont think so becouse my brother inlaw said that she had been sick for about 2 1/2 weeks so she was not taking the
morphine. but the drs were still giving her morphine about 2 mgs a few hrs

[avisg]

They are aware of how much morphine she was on .. I was just wondering if maybe she was going threw withdrawl in the hosptil .   Some people do have seizures durning withdrawl.. Are they still giving it to her and do you know how much.
avis

[VICKIE1954]

she was allready there. she was real sick so my broter in law call an amblunce that was on wend.
night.she was just out of it.she did not know anything, anyway after they got her to the hospital,
the drs started running all kinds of tests and come to find out she is a lot sicker than anyone relalized, i dont know if the morphine has caused this or not, but the drs dont think so. like i said i am worried sick about her so is my mother.
thank so so very much for answering  vickie

[avisg]

is she in the hospital because of the seizures or was she already in there and then has now started having seizures...