Morphine Withdrawal

The withdrawal from morphine is absolutely horrible. I was put on morphine for three weeks in the intensive care unit after bypass surgery and complications. They used it partly to keep me sedated and partly for pain relief. I’m no drug addict and I had never used anything like morphine before. I went home from the hospital and one day later I was in the throes of horrible morphine withdrawal. I had everything you read about from opiate withdrawal including abdominal pain and diarrhea, horrible dreams, sweating and feeling like I might die any minute. This lasted for days and now I’m three weeks from my last morphine dose and I still don’t feel right. I don’t how long it will take but I feel like the morphine withdrawal may be worse than heart attack was. If anyone in your family or you ever end up in an intensive care unit make your doctors give you an appropriate morphine withdrawal program that you do not have to go to the type of withdrawal that I did.