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You should discuss this with your hospice team.
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Perhaps pain patches and topical analgesics might address some of your physical pain but I have to ask - you don't want to accept death and you don't want the medications provided, so why was the choice made to enrol in hospice?
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Bhltn2u Jul 2023
My primary care Dr turned me over to hospice. Do I have to want to die ? Can I not get care at my house and not give up? I have many health problems, my heart is why I am on hospice. Oh, but life is so brief. Each moment is precious.
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Bhl, I am so terribly sorry you are in pain!

Have you talked to your hospice provider about an alternative to morphine? Both of my daughters have been on morphine; both say it doesn't HELP with pain, simply makes you not care. I would be asking about high doses of Tylenol 3 and the like.

As to your fear of death, are you a person of faith? Any faith? Have you considered talking to the hospice chaplain?

Please keep posting here. We care about you.
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cwillie Jul 2023
But T3 is an opioid too, so the constipation issues are the same.
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