Alex Shulgin and wife would like a word.

I totally agree

Pharmacy technician. I was crying from laughing. I lost count of how many boxes of narcan I've sold

ditto

My college motto right there.

At least your prof was nice enough to let you know that they were outdated and dangerous, AND give you a clue what was gonna be on the exam.

@@alexisgrunden1556 Oh dear... 😔

Spot on! If I had a pence every time I was taking notes frantically only to be told “it’s not done that way anymore but you need to know”, I’d have had a house before graduating!!! 😂😂🤦‍♀️

I'm not sure I would survive as a med student

@@pyrosniper6431 Don't worry, buddy. We barely survived as well. Dead inside though.

Rise up, I-be-bangin, and start your life anew!

@@Sahuagin 🤣

Can also confirm vomit volcano. Nothing makes me more exasperated than seeing a newer (or non-ER float) nurse straight up SLAM like 6mg narcan into an OD patient.

Maybe that's what Jesus was given to rise once again 😂 that would be more believable

​@@Sahuagin😂😂😂

Hey man I don't know who you are but I care about you

@@kadsafm8288 hey can you care about me too please? Thank you! 🤗

@@Lucky9_9 I care about you just as much!

@@kadsafm8288Thank you I appreciate that!!

​@@Lucky9_9 I care about you more 😂

I had a co-worker confess to doing this a while ago. She ain't very bright.

Karen Carpenter died because of Ipecack syrup abuse. It also has horrible, horrible cardiac side effects.

Good God, when I was little, my parents had that stuff in our medicine cabinet. This was in the '60s. It's amazing the changes in what's OTC and what's prescription. When Motrin came out in '77, it was by prescription only. By the early'80s, it was OTC.

People have never heard of lying? Smh

@mamamimikyu6455 the last person to vomit gets the last slice of pie

There's really varying response to morphine depending on your metabolism. For some it does basically nothing useful (not counting getting high useful), for others it works great. And some unfortunates it makes nauseous, so it's worse than useless. And finally for some it does nothing useful directly, but the high makes them not care about the pain, so it kind of works, but not in the intended way.

@@tylisirn That's how it was for me! Morphine was basically a mild muscle relaxant and that was all. (I'd dislocated my elbow- after the morphine it still hurt just as much, but my elbow wasn't spasming anymore so... slightly better?) I'm sorry that your docs didn't take you seriously @kalof3l51 . Medicine has that problem sometimes.

Sadly enough, a C1 subluxation can very well be the cause. No one would even think to get an upright upper cervical MRI for something like this, but when you know what to look for you can eyeball it on a Zoom call and palpate it in seconds. The CSF gets blocked and tonsil drainage in the brain is compromised leaving the person's brain swimming in a swill of pressure building and the person's pain is so bad they usually shut down and are immobile until the pressure is relieved. Migraines sadly shorten a person's lifespan too. Less of them is truly more in this scenario. Most hospitals would never ever think to explore a mechanical cervical problem, but that's what we're here for (people who do this specific work). So if you ever have a crippling migraine, never rule out an upper cervical issue as the cause before taking ANY meds of ANY strength to relieve the pain. Because they probably won't work. Note she said, "muscles relaxed". That's a muscular issue from very hypertonic neck and shoulder soft tissue. In a jammed C1, pressure is not relieved until it's not compressing the garden hose boring a literal hole in your skull like a pressure washer filled with CSF (cerebral spinal fluid).

Morphine and other opiates don't relieve pain. They let you ignore it. Unless you are someone (waves) who is so resistant to opiates that you are completely coherent while you should be near overdose levels. I maxed out my breakthrough pain intravenous and my pain was 12/10, and when the nurses and doctor were "why don't you push this button?" only to get the "no she ain't getting any more" alarm, that they realized that my declaration in ER was actually correct.

Morphine really affects everyone differently. For me, personally, it makes me just not care about the pain. Similar to oxycodone (Percocet). The pain is still there, like I'm still in agony, but I no longer care about it and can ignore it if I so choose. It's a very trippy feeling, because you probably *should* care about pain. In college, a doctor prescribed Percocets for my migraines and they at least let me function when I had one, though I never opted for a refill since it was better to just treat it with Aleve and actually get rid of it.

I used to eat strawberries after s hard night of drinking for that reason... ahhh, crazy youth...

Wow *takes notes for the next time i have a stomach bug*

My dad used to say the same thing about bananas

I told my wife her cooking (thanksgiving) tasted better on the way up then down. Latter at the ER I told her I was sorry.

#Voicesofexperience lol

There’s two videos called “If Paramedics had to try the Drugs They Administer” or something. If you haven’t seen them yet you should check them out. My buddy introduced me to this channel with them and I’ve been hooked ever since.

@@dyslexicboogaloothat is one of my favorite videos when he does the Ketamine haha. Also love the choking video his faces are so damn funny in that one 😂

Phenergen doesn't actually work that well. Then they're puking and hallucinating. Tigan seems to work better but we only carry IM.

@@KessyEileen04 They gave my goofball husband Phenegren for nausea at the hospital. He wasn't puking (nothing left to puke) but it DID give him the hallucinations. I think, somewhere on one of my flash drives, I still have the video of him with the emesis bag on his head singing Hail to the Chief. The nurses thought it was hysterical. Imagine Santa wearing the collapsible cup-style basin on his head singing and conducting with both hands. He doesn't remember a thing.

SAME

*laughs in allergic to morphine*

I was really disappointed when I had it and then went without lol

Yeah, They gave me morphine after laparoscopic surgery and it briefly gave me a neck ache. When I got home I just took Motrin And felt about the same.

Mix in some IV paracetamol good combo, patient has no complaints

god damn it he is od'ing hand me the star start scream, wait for what ?

i wouldnt have anything against hallucinations

The transformer that just wants to dance

I don't know about the hallucinations, but I truly think there are other issues with that drug. I was given phenegran at my university infirmary after throwing up a dozen or so times in just a few hours. They said it would help me get through the violent stomach bug without dehydrating further and stop vomitting. They also mentioned as an aside it might make me need a 1 to *maybe* 3 hour nap. I walked back to my dorm. It looked to me like the world around was starting to melt by the time I got there so I guess that was the hallucinations (was not warned of this). I got dizzy, lay down in my bed and... I didn't wake up again for 20 hours... not only that, when I came to, it took several hours more to talk coherently and move. Scared my roommates half to death. I don't want to be dramatic but I feel kindof lucky I woke up at all... I told the infirmary what happened but they didn't really say anything and just switched the subject. But I really want to know what on earth happened. I make a point of telling docs never to give me that stuff ever again!

And here I give my kids phenergan for Road trips because of HORRIFIC MOTION SICKNESS!

Well... You don't wake up when you're dead...

I… Have questions…

How do you “wake up dead” is this scary movie 3

For those having trouble with 'wake up dead'......see the comment portion dealing with 'dark humor'. ;)

@@Ericat257 some would argue you wake up somewhere else...

In the US they list all of the possible side effects IN the ad, makes you never want to take drugs ever.

@@ijustdocomments6777 Over here, they had this contest who could read that disclaimer the fastest, so as to waste as little ad time as possible... leading to some of the fastest and least comprehensible German ever recorded. Then one company noticed that saving two tenths of a second wasn't worth it, and instead, had the voice actor act it out reaaaally deliberately. (I stopped watching TV since, and thinking about these issues makes me feel old.)

Oh boy. You should see how messed up Australian TV is, especially the news media and their peddling. There is a façade of professionalism, integrity and composure that makes it seem tame and maybe even wholesome, but once you peer behind the veil... It's so horrible.

Came here to say this! ☺️💗

I remember they kept pumping me full of it in the ER New doctor comes in, “I’m so stoned and it hurts so much!” Yeah give me that shot and you’ve got a 2 year old on your hands.

People have crazy different reactions to pain meds.

The one and only time I ever had morphine, it was great! I was so euphoric, I didn't even care that I felt like my guts were trying to chew their way out of my abdominal wall.

I'm reading through the comments and so confused lol. I have regular kidney stones, morphine almost always takes away the pain within 10 minutes of it being injected. I don't feel any high or euphoria either, just a slight warm feeling immediately after the injection. Does it really not work for so many people?

@@keatodylan between that and so many people being allergic is why many places are using Fentanyl and/or Ketamine.

Naproxen is actually available without a prescription here in the UK, but only if its to treat period pain.

lol it's because codine is a controlled substance with a specific fraud proof prescription pad and it has a very high addiction rate here in the States.

I could have sworn I saw a short documentary on Meth in Japan just being a normal thing like they could get it in any drug store PLS CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG

Maribel Soto, Japan used to widely allow meth from pharmacies, but was made illegal 1940's / 1950's.

Interesting

Funny how "reefer madness" turned out to actually be a thing.

@@ijustdocomments6777 reefer fever

Oh fuck

Morphine will probably be fine, ketamine will probably fuck you up

Research has shown that people that regularly smoke pot in their teens have a small, but definite, increase in the chance of becoming schizophrenic. Weird fact that is not well known. Glad you got the head's up to avoid.

For an education of that drug all you need to do is watch the Family Guy episode where everyone tries to win a piece of pie from the local bake sale. It'll have you laughing till you throw up.

That sounds rather unpleasant.

There's really varying response to morphine. For some it does basically nothing useful (not counting getting high useful), for some it works okay. And some unfortunates it indeed makes nauseous, besides any other effects it may or may not have. And for some it does nothing useful directly, but the high makes them not care about the pain, so it kind of works, but not in the intended way.

That's where getting Torridol is way better it's a non narcotic that works very well👌

I'm reading through the comments and so confused lol. I have regular kidney stones, morphine almost always takes away the pain within 10 minutes of it being injected. I don't feel any high or euphoria either, just a slight warm feeling immediately after the injection.

It’s interesting how people are so different biologically. I hate pain meds, so much that after I had 2 major surgeries in 6 days I wouldn’t take them. They make me feel worse than the pain. But a friend of my then-bf stole them to take them for fun.. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hyperactivity is related to fatigue, actually. That's why stimulants are the common medication for managing ADHD.

It's a bad time for all if you give too much or too quickly. Puke and shit. I've seen plenty get violent when given it too fast too. Stay safe

the biggest issue with narcan is it kills their high, so they wake up PISSED.

What isn't mentioned is how many people had to shower and change clothes in the middle of a single shift to find all that out. 😂

Its not really possible to be an inexperienced paramedic. The training and onboarding process doesn't allow for it.

I had Tramadol 100 once... After just 20min I could literally feel it travelling up my spine and making my brain all tingly... A few more minutes and the original pain was reduced by maybe 20%-30%... only to be replaced by a much worse one. The brain tingle quickly turned into a headache, then gradually into a migraine...and then, came the nausea.. The next 9 hours I will always remember as probably the most miserable in my life. I was weak, confused, overly sensitive to light and noise, stomach and the rest cramping, so sick I couldn't hold ANYTHING down, not even a sip of water, my head was splitting, the brief moments when I fell asleep, I had some weird terror dreams and it just felt like it would never end! It took me some 12 h or so for the effects to wear off to a bearable level. NEVER. AGAIN!!!

That's why we use fentanyl now. It's an amazing drug.

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I'm reading through the comments and so confused lol. I have regular kidney stones, morphine almost always takes away the pain within 10 minutes of it being injected. I don't feel any high or euphoria either, just a slight warm feeling immediately after the injection. Does it really not do anything for so many people?

Soooo glad my mom didnt havecany to give when her 6yo ate the incense stick.....lolol

What dose are people giving on narcan? I keep seeing all this stuff about the side effects, and the people waking up swinging, etc but realistically that just hasn't been my experience. I know our dosing is pretty conservative, just targeting fixing the respirations rather than full reversal, but I've never really had to worry about how fast I give it?