Totaled the Z today

Sundown

Dilaudid's the trade name and hydromorphone is the generic name. 1mg of dilaudid is equivalent to about 10mg of morphine, or 125mg of demerol. Crazy stuff. The worst part is right when it makes it to the brain and makes the whole room spin a few times. But, I learned to "roll with it" and just close my eyes for a few seconds. It's ok stuff, but we carry even better stuff on the helicopter - fentanyl. 0.1mg fentanyl = all the above. Really good stuff. Too bad I never got any.

steveg78

They shot me up with a good round of Dilaudid when they had to "reduce" my ankle fracture... The trippyness was awesome but let's just say that I still felt a hell of a lot of pain when they popped my ankle back into place. I remember after I went home from the ER (scheduled surgery a week later due to extreme swelling/trauma), I was eating chinese food and twirling my spoon in the won ton soup. I then remember saying something to the tone of "I can't do this, I need to lay down" LOL... Good stuff is right!

Sundown

Well, I got lucky. I work part-time in the ER that they transported me to, so I got some pretty heft doses of morphine and dilaudid for the pain. When it came time to try to reduce the fracture, they gave a VERY liberal dose of versed. if may have hurt when they pulled, but I can't remember. That's what versed does - causes amnesia. I highly recommend asking for it by name.