Morphine And Hallucinations? (Top voted first)

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I've been hospitalized 4 times between Feb./Mar. this year. I was taking morphine 15mg for maybe 2 weeks before this, I was having hallucinations each time. Doctors told me it was due to UTI s and any bacterial infections. I had 1 infection because of an IV in my leg. Can you explain to me if that's right or not? Thank you so much.

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My guess is that it’s more likely that you were hallucinating from the infections. It sounds like you were septic, (the infection had spread throughout your body), and quite seriously Ill from those infections. Morphine is quite often given in those situations because the patient can be in a great deal of pain. The morphine may have played a part in your hallucinations, but I’m betting it was more from your being so seriously ill.

When you are that sick, often your veins will shut down, requiring hospital staff to search for other places in your body to give you IV fluids and medications. There are nice, big veins in your legs that they can use instead of putting an IV in your arm.

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Morphine has been known to cause hallucinations as a side effect in some people that take it, especially at higher doses, according to FDA warnings. It also carries the risk of being habit forming, and may cause other side effects, such as nausea, dizziness, headache, constipation, and dry mouth.

Ref: Morphine Information

That said, your hallucinations may even have been due to a combination of the symptoms from your infections, and the side effects of the medications.

Infections are well known to affect some people very oddly, especially if they are severe. My mother-in-law behaves very oddly, when she has a UTI.

How are you doing now?

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