My sister has numerous orthopedic problems and fibromyalgia and has had numerous surgeries some to correct a previous surgery. So she has had her share of pain medicine. Because of the chronic problems she is on routine pain medicine that she sometimes takes to freely.S o last week she had to have a knee replacement removed because it was degenerating underneath. She was placed on Percocet. Wow! At first she was a zombie that was loopy. Her husband started watching how much medicine she was taking so she is now just loopy. So I had to babysit her today. It's terrible to watch your loved one just talk out of their head. She insisted on making phone calls and I knew it was just going to frustrate her because the person on the other end wouldn't know what was going on but she thought these things needed to be done. I didn't quite know how to say no you can't have the phone. I never thought I would have to babysit my sister for this.

When i took her to therapy today the therapist immediately saw something was wrong so he went and talked to the doctor who stopped the Percocet. But my sister will never understand why because she was to out of it to hear what the doctor said. She just doesn't understand because she doesn't have the capability at this point to. And blunt! She asked a lady next to her if she, the lady, looked that bad when she woke up! She told another lady who was heavy that she was never going to lose the 150 she needs to if she doesn't stop eating cookies. These are perfect strangers.

Sounds like she was beyond loopy. I'm glad the Doc took her off of it. My MIL was on Percoset in the hospital and was having hallucinations...they took her off of it too..

I hope she gets through this ok and feels better soon.

Sounds like she was gorked out of her mind. (gorked is a not-so-technical term my dad, a nurse anesthetist, taught me. Means that someone has over-medicated you.)

Basically she's stoned out of her mind...

The orthopedic surgeon did the same thing to my mom when she had a knee replacement. Everytime my mom moaned or something after the surgery, the nurses gave her another shot or a pill...had my mom so gorked that they thought she'd had a stroke. (the MRI showed old damage, probably from her brain concussion 50yrs ago) Once they backed off on the drugs she went back to normal.

Some people just react poorly to meds like that. Hope they find something she tolerates. Sorry you had to witness that.

that is a negative side effect of that drug, and she needs to be moved to a new pain killer. Pain killers need to kill or dimish pain, not cause pyschosis. A drug induced pyschosis is not fun to live through.


give her a gentle hug, once you are sure she wont rip your head off. thats awful.

Thanks for all your concern. She was a lot better today but still a little loopiness! She said herself that there had been a ot of healing between yesterday and today.