My mother who is 83 years old
was given an injection of Narcan a opioid antagonist, that almost killed her. She has a bad heart, high blood preasure etc. and 2 months ago fell and crushed a disk in her back which the doctors were giving her a 100 milligrams of Fentanyl plus neurontin to help boost the performance. She had awoke complaining of having trouble breathing, I called 911 and proceded to sit her up. She was breathing on her own, pulse was 97 and blood preasure was 170 over 74 she was talking and making sense. When I got to the emergency room she was screaming in pain,complaining that she was in so much pain she thought she was dying. Her legs and arms were shaking and I thought she was dying. I told the ER Doctor that I was afraid that she might be having withdrawl symptoms because they took the pain patch off of her. He assured me that it would take a long time for that to happen. He didn't even realize that she had been given Narcan which put her into immediate withdrawl!
2006-11-05
22:14:07
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