Oh, nice!
Just found the remains of a small tobacco pouch with enough left in it to make a few rollups, as well as a lighter, some papers, and best of all, 14 'zomorph'.As well as a medium-sized bottle of cold cherry coke in the fridge.
Well, there were 14 there to start with, five fewer now, as well as a full-sized (600mg, I think, at least, give or take a couple of tens of mg perhaps, one way or the other. Close enough anyway) dose of morphine that I'd got ready earlier today, I must have forgot all about it, either that, or I fell asleep before I could come round to making use of it. Either way, it isn't going anywhere this time, other than where its meant to, when its meant to. I had been wondering why my hips were hurting quite so much. Now that explains it, if I made it up and then forgot to actually use it, while not remembering I hadn't. Oops.
...DEFINITELY going nowhere, now
but OW, that stung like fury, that has to be the one thing, other than the things held in common by all, or most opioids, that I dislike about morphine, the strength of the histamine release it causes if you miss a tiny bit, such as whatever dribbles out of the point once one withdraws it from a vein, any accidental extravasation HURTS, admittedly not for all that long, but it would do had the cause of the histamine release not been a reliever of pain in and of itself. Damn, that was as sore as a wasp or bee sting, until I stuck a bit of steroid cream over the site, although it still left a welt about twice the diameter of a two pound coin, from the start to finish of its widest axis, and high as the distance from fingertip to the knuckle immediately closest to the fingernail end, and a load of bloody well hives down my forearm. Bastard. Bastard, bastard and OW, double sodding bastardlyness-infested bastarding fatherless bastards and their bastardly children born out of bastarding wedlock to a bastard of a partner on national fucking bastard's day
The mometasone gel should stop it getting any worse though, and the antihistamine (cyclizine) I just took should stop the stinging. I think in future I might just decide to take my cyclizine hydrochloride tablet script, and freebase it, take it up in some suitable solvent and reform it as a salt, but as something like the citrate, tartrate, lactic acid salt, maleate, succinate or what have ye', as the HCl salt is pretty insoluble in water. Then prepare some sterile amps, sterilize the stuff as pre-measured portions so that it can be used via IM, or added to the morphine (which apparently is a very popular, somewhat different in effect combination, certainly, I have myself had someone pleading with me to trade them some (not trade them the morphine, I mean, trade with them for some of the antihistamine, which tends to make me think that there might actually BE some difference in the combination to morphine on its own, if they were trying to get that from me, rather than requesting the actual pain meds, or else, surely, that would be the other way round, the other party wanting the painkillers not the antihistamine. Just the way round in which they wanted something being the inverse of what would intuitively be expected, when if not cyclizine itself, OTHER antihistamines are ten a penny when it comes to being over the counter, so there must be something making IV cyclizine w/ MS qualitatively different to what would result from some other sedating antihistamine, if one were to pull a box off a pharmacy shelf whilst blindfolded, trusting to chance to determine which kind.
What, on the other hand, it is, I do not know. But I could definitely benefit from having a rapidly acting option present, for that sort of reason, to prevent swelling from progressing if theres any extravasation, and the steroid hasn't suppressed it from beginning altogether, so as not to have to sit around waiting for it, whilst feeling as if I just laid down on a wasp, because that is not my idea of an awful lot of fun.
