which is stronger.. dilaudid or demerol.. mg to mg. surgery was labral tear in shoulder..?

Question

pain severe

Answer 1

In my nursing home we administer a lot of dilaudid tablets starting at usually 2mg which is the weaker dose, my one patient is on 6mg 4xs a day and also uses duragesic 125MCG every 72hrs, and her pain is still not completely managed. I have seemed to notice Oxycontin 20mg-40mg works fairly well on some of my patients as well, we never seem to give demerol, how ever i had it when i was having my son, it only worked a short period of time, these drugs I mentioned are more longer lasting, well oxycontin usually 12hrs given, as for dilaudid,most given every 4hrs some again for breakthrough every 2hrs! We also have a lady on morphine tablets i cant remember the strength and she takes every 4 hrs. I used to see a lot of MS contin in the nu rsing home but not any more and tht was a drujg that relased over a period of time. seemed to be replaced i guess with the oyxcontins int he home.

Answer 2

Dilaudid is a heck of alot stronger than demerol. The reason for that is Dilaudid is the same thing as Morphine just you need less to achieve to the same effect. For ever 10ml morphine you need 1ml dilaudid. Demerol is a much weaker pain killer, however it does do the trick depending on the severity of the pain. Usually it is Morhine or Dilaudid given after sugery for a few days and than they put you on Demerol......

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

I cant use them
Much pain is from muscles below is an example of what may help (based on headaches).
Begin with a couple swigs of molasses or a couple of bananas (natural muscle relaxers) daily - magnesium (which regulates many things in the body) and potassium (a needed building block for muscles).
Drink at least 1/2 gallons of water per day. Running a body low on water is like running a car low on oil is the analogy the head of neurology at UCDavis told my husband about 10 years ago.

Now to the cause - muscles - your back, neck shoulders and head have tender spots. They are knots in the fibers of the muscles called trigger points. It makes the muscles tight which makes them press on nerves and other things causing the pain.

The cure - start with a professional massage, you will also want to go back over any place you can get to 6-12 times per session up to 6 times per day rubbing (or lightly scratching on your head) every where that is tender until the knots go away. The place where the skull connects to the spine press up under the edge of the skull (to get to those muscles).

For more information read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies. It teaches what to do and where the pain comes from.

Answer 4

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