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Smowball | 06:05 Sat 30th Nov 2019 | Body & Soul
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What is the strongest a doctor will prescribe?? And I clearly can’t buy stronger than co codamol. I’m really struggling - I don’t understand why the pain has suddenly escalated to this level but I can’t cope with it for many more hours.
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There are two strengths of Co-codamol, 8/500 which you can buy, and 30/500 available only on prescription. The first figure is the amount of codeine.
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Right ok, I don’t understand why this pain has suddenly escalated to this level but I’m really struggling. X
See your GP smow. xxx
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"Morphine and morphine-like drugs (such as oxycodone, fentanyl and buprenorphine) are the strongest painkillers there are.

Depending on your individual circumstances, these types of painkiller may be prescribed as a patch, an injection, or sometimes in a pump you control yourself.

But they all work in similar ways and should only be used for severe pain.

They'll only be prescribed after consultation with a doctor or a pain specialist. The dose and your response will be closely monitored"

Source:
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/which-painkiller-to-use/

There's more about morphine here:
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/morphine/

I've only ever been given morphine once, when I had to call a doctor out on Boxing Day due to me suffering from orchitis. (It's the swelling of a testicle to several times its normal size. If a man can ever experience a pain like that of childbirth, orchitis must come very close to it!). The doctor gave me tablets straight from his bag, rather than from a pharmacy, and repeatedly warned me that taking a double dose would be fatal. (He insisted on calling in a witness to his warnings too). I took just one tablet and, within a very short space of time, my whole body had gone completely numb. (Think of what your gum feels like when a dentist gives you an anaesthetic injection and then expand that to the whole of your body; you could have plunged a knitting needle anywhere into my body and I wouldn't have felt it!)

So there are some very strong painkillers available from your GP but he/she certainly won't rush to offer them to you.

I hope that you find some relief soon. (If your GP's surgery doesn't open on Saturdays, try calling 111 to see if they'll refer you to an out-of-hours GP).
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Walked into my doctors yesterday which is opposite my house and said can I please just see the doctor for 30 seconds. They said no, we’re fully booked - there was nobody in the waiting room!!
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God Buenchico that sounds horrendous!!
can you call 111 and see what they can offer you
going on my brother who tore his shoulder and still suffers with the pain takes tramadol prescribed by the doctor, he says its very effective.
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Morning emmie hun, I’m going to have to do something. I’m a pretty tough cookie and it sounds over dramatic but I’ve literally been sat been crying in pain - my hand is literally pulsating/throbbing and it’s just horrendous..
i would give them a ring, if worse comes to it can you go to the hospital?
Go to the nearest outpatients smow. Now.
on reflection i would go if you can to nearest hospital, do you have to drive there? if so can you drive with your hand.
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I was at the hospital for therapy on Wednesday and had all x rays re done, everything. Bones still broke obviously but nothing had moved or changed so that’s why I don’t uNderstand this sudden horrendous pain.
then go back to hospital at least for some stronger pain relief.
It needs looking at smow. A&E NOW!!!
go now, its just after 6, it may well be a bit quieter...
111 might be a better option than A&E. (It's also the 'official' route that you're meant to go down).

If you go to A&E you could end up waiting hours to be seen. If 111 will refer you to an out-of-hours GP, you could be seen within minutes.
Good point Chris.
out of hours doctor won't necessarily come to you. depends on where you are, you have to go to ours, which isn't always possible. I know because i had to get some pain relief
i would go to A&E

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