i am 46 years old and i was hurt while working on oil rigs when i was 27.i have been in cronic pain since.i have had 7back surgery's.the last surgery was called the b.a.k. after that surgery i really had alot of pain i was walking when i went in and came out in a wheel chair, my pain is so severe that pain meds werent helping me at all.so in 2001 i had a morphine pump installed and it helped alot bt i still have to take oral meds, any way on march 31st of this year i had my pump filled and later that evening i became really sleepy and my legs was felling numb,i really didnt thank much about it because i usually stay up at night and sleep during the day so i fell asleep and later that night my daughter come in and tryed to get me up and i wasnt responding so they woke up my wife and after several atemps to wake me failed they called a ambulance.they couldnt wake me either so they loaded me up and took me to the hospital,by that time i was in serioe shape so they put me in i.c.u.and started giving me narcan.i just about died because my pump malfunctioned and overdosed me.after they turned my pump off i started to get better so thy turned down to about half the dose i was getting and turned the back on an let me go home then later that nght i had to go back to the hospital because my pump overdosed me again.cometo fined out my pump had malfunctioned and made me so sick that i didnt know my name orcouldnt drive or do much of anything for about a month after that.they finally changed the pump in july. and i am doing better but i still dont feel the same . i am a big man i weigh 425 lbs and if this was to happen to somebody smaller or older then me they might not make it.i almost didnt they even called in my family because they didnt know if i was going to make it or not .if anyone reads this and has had a morphine pump malfunction please get in touch with me ?
thanks mike
