The 67-year-old woman has undergone nine back surgeries since damaging her back lifting a box in her 20s. 9News
drugAnna McKay, 67, has been taking a form of liquid morphine called Ordine for more than ten years for the pain from Cauda Equina Syndrome, which is caused by a compression of a bundle of spinal nerves.Ordine is a type of liquid morphine which won't be available anymore because it's "not commercially viable".Anna McKay, 67, said she has even started considering voluntary euthanasia over the "ghastly" update about the form of liquid morphine called ordine.
McKay, who has a son Nicholas, 31, has undergone nine back surgeries since damaging her back lifting a box in her 20s.The TGA predicted different strengths of the drug would start running out from the end of the year and according to aPalliative care advocates are calling on the government to find another supplier, plus remove red tape so patients can afford access to it as soon as possible.
"Medicine or dose substitution is often an option, but it's not always an option," RACGP Vice President Dr Bruce Willett told 9News.com.
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