Patient/caregiver was educated on precautions to be exercised while taking morphine as follows:
- Watch out for any continuing/worsening pain and diminishing pain control response, to report to your doctor immediately. Based on the response you show, your physician could consider a change in the plan of care and/or change the dose of morphine, to provide the desired therapeutic relief. So, maintain compliance with follow-up physician appointments and be accommodative to the plan of dose changes, until you show an optimum response.
- Take the prescribed morphine dose at recommended evenly spaced out time intervals without fail. This allows maintain constant levels of pain medication in the blood, which helps better pain control. Observing compliance with the dose and schedule also helps to avoid forgetting the medication and consequent exacerbation of pain and discomfort.
- Do not change the dose on this medication without consulting your doctor.
- Do not wait for the pain to peak to have your morphine pill. Pain medications work best when taken at the first appreciation of pain, before the pain peaks.
