Hilluciations while on drugs

mindy10
mindy10 Member Posts: 182 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Hi everyone. First of all Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there. I wanted to ask if anyone has had experienced this. My dad is 73, ever since he started on Oxicotin and Morphine and an anti-depressant he has been seeing things. He thinks us kids are there and we are not. He saw a lamp shade and thought it was my niece doing homework. He is on a very small dose but I wonder if its the drugs causing it or the disease. He has stage 4 with mets to the lungs. Thanks for any information you can give me. Mindy

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  • dash4
    dash4 Member Posts: 303 Member
    #2
    hi Mindy,
    I think you should check with your dad's doctor to be sure, but this is what I know. My husband has been on oxycontins for a very long time and has not had that effect at all. But many years ago when my brother(was only 37 years old) had lung cancer and was on high doses of oxycontin....he would have hallucinations. They were very real to him and we would have to repeatedly tell him what was reality and not. That is my experience with it. Hope the pain meds are at least controlling your dad's pain.
    Dash
  • Betsydoglover
    Betsydoglover Member Posts: 1,248 Member
    #3
    Hi Mindy -

    Talk to your Dad's doctor. Narcotic drugs can definitely cause these things and as I understand it there is significant variability in how individual patients react to them. My stepfather had very serious back surgery 3 years ago and saw many lovely colored flowers on the ceiling while on oxycontin. My grandmother, many years ago, saw people who were not in the room while on demerol. And my husband just this past March had minor back surgery, but was saying things that made no sense while on morphine.

    I certainly suspect it is the oxycontin and morphine rather than the antidepressant or the disease that is causing this.

    Take care, Betsy
  • AuthorUnknown
    AuthorUnknown Member Posts: 1,537 Member
    #4
    Anti-depressants can cause hallucinations. They can completely alter the physche.
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #5
    My experience with the 'major' pain killers are halucinations and loss of time (it went by REAL FAST). This was while on Morphine after my bowel resection, and then during a bowel obstruction....others I talked to said the same happened to them.
    Hugs, kathi
  • taraHK
    taraHK Member Posts: 1,952 Member
    #6
    I have had hallucinations while on morphine.

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