- Hyperalgesia??? 21st March 2007
... than mscontin wouldn't that work out to 165mgs of morphine ?
Or am I all mixed up.
I'm afraid to say anything...
... Regarind hyperalgesia, there is an amazing article about morphine hyperalgesia if you just ****** those two words together...
... works. This is from the full prescribing info for morphine and every other opiate available on the market. It ...
The principal actions of therapeutic value of morphine are analgesia and sedation
(i.e., sleepiness and ... CNS opiate receptors and endogenous compounds with morphine -like activity have been identified throughout the ... say anything with certainty when they don't know how morphine works. Patients have only used LA meds for CP for ... 10 years. They haven't figured out morphine in the last 175 years other than it works.
It sounds ... interchangable when they start calling 90 mgs of morphine a high dose that would induce such a rare phenom. ... explain, :) .
I will check out the latest info on morphine hyperalgesia and see what's being said.
Take care...
- Intrathecal Opiate Pump/Granulomas 21st March 2007
... as published info was that the greater risk is with morphine when you reach higher MG contrations. I was doing ... wel with morphine but my doc was concrerned about this risk. He said ... between refills rather than using 30 mgs per ml of morphine and needing refills every 28 days. The new pumps wil ... Weere both granullomas with high concentrations of morphine or did they switch meds to revent further problems ... . Have you heard the same thing about morphine and do you remeber the med and concetration you were ... etermining factor, Higher concentrations meds, particluarly morphine , are what my doc avoids. So far so good and I understand...
- Headaches & stomachaches everyday 19th March 2007
... sometimes when I need to take stronger medications such as morphine or oxycodone, not sure why.
The bulging disc in...
- medcation related question 19th March 2007
... I have this off and on with Morphine and Percocet along with retention. In fact I had a ... remember doing it so often before I was on long acting Morphine /Percocet. It used to be that I only went maybe once...
- What is the deal with Methadone? 19th March 2007
... you took a 100 patients comfortably taking 20 mgs of morphine every 4 hours the conveersion rate can be anywhere ... 10:1. and even more unusual, te higher the dose of morphine the lower the conversion factor is. This unpredictable ... from meth withdrawal, not from heroin and not from morphine .
If a patient was found to be absuing their meth ... line med, meaning they try oxycontin, long acting morphine , duragesic patches, not to mention nerve blocks, trigger ... there are several people here that have implanted morphine /dilaudid or pumps that deliver fentanyl along with...
... issues unrelated to mine was able to decrease her LA morphine dose by 2/3rds once Nemanada was added.
As far...
- A few questions. 18th March 2007
... course it helped, Meth is up to 10 times stronger than morphine or 5 times stronger than oxy, a short term solution...
... while still on methadone and then I switched to LA morphine . When I did my folow up a few months later my T levels ... scale is for someone my age simply from changing to morphine So I doscontinued the supplement. Now that I have ... experienced the same thing when they switched me from morphine to dilaudid. I felt distinctly different, my levels...
- Question on tolerance 18th March 2007
... to itch behind your eyes!)
After I started on LA Morphine I was given 10mg SA Morphine for BT and that scared ... becoming tolerant and having that tolerance hurt the LA Morphine 's effectiveness. For me, 120mg of Avinza (a supposed ... 24 hour Morphine formulation; supposed because it doesn't last the...
- Miralax is now OTC 17th March 2007
... as up to 30 mg of natural fiber each day. When my morphine was increased was when the big problems came and my...
- Oxycodone vs Morphine sulfate ER 16th March 2007
... to 600 mgs of MSC per day holds true in most cases. Morphine can be more sedating than oxycodone, but the conversionis ... conversion sounds right from 400 mgs of oxy to 600 mgs of morphine .
If you are taking only 240 mgs of oxycontin, the ... symtoms and more than likely you woul d simply fine the morphine a bit more sedating.
I hope this helps and you...
... HLC CR 80mg. 5 times a day, was changed yesterday to morphine sulf er 100mg. 2 tabs 3 times a day. I had found that ... and he is just my family Dr. I have just started my morphine so I gueess I will see how it goes. Did you say I ... was taking more morphine than I was oxy.?Again thanks for being so kind, and...
... dosage up and up. You might not have that problem with morphine .
You asked if you were taking more morphine than ... oxy....technically yes...600mg of morphine compared to 400 of oxy...but they are equivalent in...
... was rotating between 120mgs of meth and 600 mgs of morphine when I did my trial and implant. The constipation ... Common sense does say, how can anyone take 600 mgs of morphine and not have any impairment or side efects that are...
- 84 Mother drugs for pain 14th March 2007
... the lower doage used. I went from 600 mgs of oral morphine a day to 12 mgs of intratheal morphine and got much...
- HELP somebody 14th March 2007
... over 8 hours. The standard conversion from hydro to morphine is .8:1, meaning 8 mgs of hydro is equal to 10 mgs ... of morphine . a 15 mgs MSC suonly conatins 15 mgs of morphine, ... It doesn't sustain 15 mgs of morphine in your system, half is released aftr about 1 hour ... reduced your dose from 80-120 mgs of hydro to 45 mgs of morphine a day, about half the strength you were previously ... way up, not start high and work your way down.
Morphine would be much more sedating at an equal dose of hydro...
- Need help deciding on breakthrough meds 13th March 2007
... doctor and he gave me 20mg of MS-IR (Instant release morphine ). I have tried MS-IR before (last spring) but at ...
I was wondering if maybe the instant release morphine doesn't work because I am taking MS Contin, and I ... have developed a big resistance to the morphine . Since I started taking MS Contin, developing a resistance ... discuss this intelligently with my doctor. If I take morphine for both long lasting and breakthrough pain will the ... what I think the problem is, and I think if I take morphine for long lasting pain, and something different for ... in each one is. The primary medication in MS-IR is morphine , the primary medication in Oxycontin is oxycodone...
... with the tolerance issue.....I myself cannot take any morphine products since I get wayyyyy too nauseous and the...
... also good for the drug MSContin. The MS stands for morphine sulfate and the Contin stands for continuous release...
... hydromorphone can be up to eight times stronger than morphine , I don't know if that is the universally accepted...
... don't know what Oxymorphone is...is it Oxycodone and morphine in the same tablet? I've heard about it before and ... just curious....
I, personally can't take morphine products....get too sick and on Oxycontin as well...
... thebaine and is approximately 6-8 times more potent than morphine ....
- i am concerned. 13th March 2007
... 2 #10 percoset every 4-6 hours...plus slow release morphine . I think that he may be sleepy and woozy from it,...
- Advice in talking with Pain Management Doctor 9th March 2007
... the nausea and upset stomach. I do not do good with Morphine at all. I've tried Oxycodone in the past, but asked...
... that these, instead of the hydrocodone products and morphine , work best for me with the least side effects....I...
... stomach and caused vomiting. I obviously can not take morphine . He prescribed me some kind of patches that you wear...
... doc) make the leap to oxycodone since you've tried morphine , diladud and fentanyl. The 'fuzzy' feeling from oxycontin...
- Lorcet Question 7th March 2007
... days, I specifically ask for something other than Morphine in my PCA (the pump that delivers your meds directly ... most hospitals are getting away from that now...the morphine ....since that has higher levels of nausea associated...
- Suspended from work because of meds! 6th March 2007
... how heroin breaks down in the body and appears as morphine in urine?? I don't know if there is a threshold as ... for being accused of using heroin or unprescribed morphine because he had a positive drug test. He was adamant...
- Help converting Actiq? 5th March 2007
... what a 200mcg pop would be equal to in Oxycodone or morphine . A while ago, before I was on anything except percocet...
... roughly equivelant to someone taking 300-400 mgs of morphine per day. Double that and squish the time frame down ... at something in the neighborhood of 600-800 mgs of morphine in a single dose. Most docs won't prescribe Aqtiq ... 30 mg Roxicodone, Have you ever taken 600 mgs of LA morphine a single day day? Have you even come close to the ... micrograms because it;s hundreds of times stronger than morphine . Why not just give you 600 mgs of MSContin to take ... If you have never come close to taking 300 mgs of morphine in a single dose, you have no biz taking aqtiq.
...
- newbie with ???'s 4th March 2007
... Hi KatyA far as comparing strnegths of meds, morphine is the next step up the ladder, Oxycodone is actually ... stronger than morphine . Hydroomorne "dilaudi, oxymorphone, amethadone and ... fentanyl are all stronger than morphine .
It's pretty easy to predict that the stronger ...
As far as A buzz, what's that. You accomadate to morphine the same way you did to hydrocodone. The advantage ... The first few weeks will likely be felt in some way, morphine is much more sedating than hydro because it's a different ... class of opiate and doses of oral morphine usually far exceed hydro unless hydro is specially ... bonded out. Your spouse can't bring you the odse of LA morphine or methadone or the new patch you need while you in...
... told me that you do not get "high" effect from the morphine , so that's good. it took me 2 or 3 months to finally...
- Fiorinal/cod 30mg or percocet 7.5/325mg 2nd March 2007
... migraines too, matter of fact it worked better than morphine in the ER. This combination medication is used to...
- 2 Questions that I'd love some input on! 1st March 2007
... scripts filled a couple of months ago, I got a generic morphine that I had never had before...nice color, pretty purple ... out that it was when I got the generic for the la morphine that this started..he told me to change pharmacies ... scripts. #10 percosets, breakthrough percoset IR, LA morphine , Zanaflex(?). The person on the phone was rather...
- First apt with New PM Dr was Horrible! SurgicalDisaster Please read! 24th February 2007
... prescribing Duragesic, I thought that was stronger than morphine and oxycontin. I dont know. I hope that you feel better...
... does not matter) is about 1000 times more potent than Morphine . It is likewise more potent than Oxycodone or Hydrocodone...
... Arterial Clot And The Pain Was Soooooo Bad I Was On Iv Morphine At The Start But Once It Was Cleared I Still Had Bad...
- Myofascial pain syndrome / chronic myofascial pain 22nd February 2007
... elbow, back, hands, pretty much everywhere. I was on morphine and oxy ir for years but stopped them a few months...
- Methadone and its dangers 21st February 2007
... a choice of 40 bucks for meth or 14 hundred for LA morphine or more for oxyC or duragesic. I think they have ... going to work when an opiate 10 times stronger than morphine gaurentees pain relief if you take enough.The ease...
... supression. Meaning if you try to convert 100 people on say morphine to an equivelent dose of meth, you would get people...
... same point could be made about my own experience with Morphine . I get hot flashes and sometimes sweat an awful lot ... me feel hungry (at least I'm pretty sure it's the Morphine doing it, but there's a few other meds I take too ... about meth a few years ago when I was still new to LA Morphine , but she did not have enough experience and wanted ... heard about how it doesn't give a high feeling and the Morphine was making me feel dopey at first (it stopped a bit...
- MzPain: Did you get your compound meds yet? 20th February 2007
... dosage as I had been taking before I started trying the morphine and oxycontin, which was 20mg. per dose straight hydro...
- Intense sacroiliac pain-any suggestions? 20th February 2007
... tolerance was so high. I was taking more than 800mg of morphine via a pump which nearly killed me. This is something...
- Could use some guidance 18th February 2007
... medication adjustments. I cannot take Kadian which is morphine . It made me very shaky. I also had a very strange ... disease, which is a whole other subject. I have had morphine via injection and also Dilaudid and I do alright with...
- need advice please!!! 17th February 2007
... about 40 dollars a month and an equal dose of generic morphine wmay come in around 225 a month..
Yes docs can...
- Opiates and tooth problems 15th February 2007
... my overall dental health is good and I've been on Morphine for the past 4 years now. My dentist has not mentioned...
... my overall dental health is good and I've been on Morphine for the past 4 years now. My dentist has not mentioned...
- med expectations 15th February 2007
... expect any residual withdrawal type effects from the morphine for a short time while I get back on track with the...
- weening of meds\does it depend on what med? 14th February 2007
... asked me,does it differ to ween off oxy. compared to morphine ?
For example,with oxy. should you go down 10 mg every ... 3 days,and morphine 20 mg every 3 days.Depending on the med. is there...
- Completed a wean from 240mg Avinza to NOTHING and Im hurting 14th February 2007
... I'm not looking to ramp up to the high levels of morphine that I was on a just a short time ago. I really believe...
... did that. He said what I needed was a long acting morphine like Kadian or Avinza and I agreed but said that there...
... to pay for them twice. All of them are long acting Morphine (Kadian and Avinza). I have doses of 30mg, 60mg and...
- Best Doc Appointmet Ever! 13th February 2007
... how bad do you need these? I said well Ive been on morphine and they are not cutting the pain enough and I feel...
... a med that works for your pain. It's too bad the Morphine didn't work for you. I prefer it over Hydrocodone ... whereas when I had inadvertantly skipped a daily dose of Morphine I didn't have any w/d's but would get an increase...
... take it for a month after a major auto accident. The morphine hadnt worked 5 years ago when I was given it for a ... So it sounds like my hydro reacts on me like your morphine act on you and the other way around. Strange but great...
... differently on most of us. I'm happy that the Avinza (LA Morphine ) I am prescribed is only dosed once every 24hrs.....
- BT med question 13th February 2007
... My PM doctor has me on Kadian 60mg and Morphine Immediate Release/MSIR 15mg. I have stage 4 endometriosis...
... to have a BM by prepairing for a BM by taking extra morphine daily to double your serum level, This isn't BT pain ... your system, The entire pill only contains 60 mgs of morphine and that is spread over 18-24 hours. If you wanted ... into a short acting med, you would divide 60 mgs of morphine into 6 equal doses spread 4 hours apart. That would ... med strength and that may be part of the problem. Morphine is one of the most constipating meds there is. Something...
... My PM doctor has me on Kadian 60mg and Morphine Immediate Release/MSIR 15mg. I have stage 4 endometriosis...
- LA Morphine? 13th February 2007
... someone if its going to give me relief!-lol
IMO morphine just sounds scary. M O R P H I N E In the past,I ... 've had better relief with lortab,than morphine [mg for mg] MS cotin[time released morphine] was so ... in-effective for me,i think the strengh of morphine is over rated[imo] its one of the oldest pain relievers ... was more effetive for me
[of course high doses of morphine ] many peaple here find ms cotin to work wonders,and...
... I am with the MadHat morphine taken orally just does not work for a lot of people...
... :) I am with the MadHat morphine taken orally just does not work for a lot of people...
... Well another thumbs down here for the LA Morphine , I just cant get the relief from it that I used to ... acting meds as of today I am on my second try of LA Morphine , not good pain relief and it makes me stupid, not ... the LA meds a good try and it was a disaster, the Morphine twice even, but I am told the compound pharmacy can...
... [COLOR="Navy"]I take LA Morphine , 30 mg. twice a day. I have been on this for the...
... I am currently on 90mg Avinza (LA Morphine ) every 24 hrs and it has been a great pain reliever ... little off-topic since you only asked mainly about the Morphine ....sorry.
I hope it works for you as well as it...
... 120mgs of Avinza (a supposed 24 hour configuration of Morphine ) daily and it works very well for me. On average it ... I'm don't remember the exact dosing) with 10mg SA Morphine for breakthrough. The patches didn't stick to my skin ... well so I chose Morphine over Oxycontin and my doctor wanted to try Avinza ... equivalent dose of MS Contin and was not hungry.
Morphine may or may not work for you, but if anything you should...
- Just switched to Avinza--and, how do I tell my old doc I am seeing someone else? 12th February 2007
... it, I was on 15 to 25mcg Fentanyl patches with 10mg Morphine tabs for breakthrough for a month or so, but had to ... When I first started the Avinza, I had only taken Morphine for a very short time as breakthrough with Fentanyl...
- Please list these drugs from least to most.... 12th February 2007
... after trying different things was wanting to put me on morphine pills which I was too scared to try. I have constant...
... short acting oxy over long acting or short acrtng morphine over long acting. If you take a med every 4 hours ... opiates, strength wise it goes, Codeine, hydrocodone, morphine , oxycodone, Dilaudid "hydromorphone" Oxymorphone, ... methadone, levorphanol and fentanyl.
Obviously morphine isn't the strongest opiate mg for mg, but it is the ... list runs from codeine being 1/100th the strength of morphine to Fentanyl being a 100 times stronger than morphine ... instead of mgs. Oxycodne is 1.5 times stronmger than morphine , Hydilaudid is 3-7 times stronger than morphine, Oxymorphon ... e is 3-10 tikes stronger than morphine , Methadone is 3-10 times stroger than morphine and ... leveorphanol is 7-15 times stronger than morphine .
The next step may seem to be to use one of the ... You will be able to see if your taking 90 m
gs of morphine what dose of other opiate should be used as starting ... differently to each med. You may respond better to oxy than morphine and be able to use substantuiially less than what...
- update from codeine to oxycodne 10th February 2007
... reduction in pain is considered a sucesful implanted morphine pump.
Now that you have 90% relief, what are you...
- Surgery with no insurance? 9th February 2007
... were very very kind to me, took xrays and gave me morphine and toredol and something for naseua, They were worried ... my pain is bad.They kept me for 6 hours giving me morphine until they got the pain and the bp under control....
- Compound Meds~ 9th February 2007
... try since the Oxycontin is an absolute NO, but the morphine makes me kinda dumb and that isnt ok either especially ... that if this dumb feeling doesnt go away with the morphine I still can ask my doc about the compounding of the...
... can you explain in a simpler way?Please? Sorry, this morphine makes me kinda stupid.Ha Ha!
I forgot to say in my...
- New Member with lots of questions 9th February 2007
... While waiting on the PM appt my family Dr gave me 50mg morphine sulfate er 8hrs prn along with some vicodin 5/500 ... of the vicodin pills untill the RLS went away. The morphine worked very well for 12 hrs.
2 weeks ago I went to ... Norco had no effect except slight pain relief. The Morphine was ok too if I ate with it.
I refuse to drive a...
... CoraMegan, Thanks for the heads up. I think all the morphine type drugs are like that. I am sorry you are having...
- Med Question 7th February 2007
... implanted pump is another option, But if you can't take LA morphine how is morphine delievered constantly to the spine...
- getting tolerant to O.C's[should i stop the neurotin] 6th February 2007
... the serum levels of Hydrocodone, It had no effect on morphine or any other opiate.
Neurontin on it's own decreases ... cause pain, Neurontin does not have any effect on morphine and only a 2-3% effect on Hydrocodone? If someone...
... interactions, then go down to the Hydrocodone and morphine headings and bingo bango YOU will have EXACTLY what...
- Need Advice Before Doc Appmt. Again! 5th February 2007
... now, but also did on my previous trial of 15mg LA morphine . My BT med is 10/325 norco. Also a month ago while ... was hoping the LAoxy would work because I cant take morphine ,methadone or patch thay make me too dingy, if thats...
... feel like such a failure I cant take methadone or morphine and when I take 12 a day norco I have to put up with...
- Medication Vacation??? 4th February 2007
... Dr. that since I dont' want to graduate to oxcy or morphine that I can try to lessen my meds and struggle thru...
... 3/1, spine dr. thinks PM will lean towards SCS or morphine pump since there is no surgery options anymore.
... neurontin, am having digestive issues with the percocet. Morphine , at least orally, doesn't do much for me after about...
... percoet as far more dangerous meds than long acting morphine , fentanyl etc. in context...
- I believe my nephew is dishonest 31st January 2007
... you get and see which specific opiates it test for. Morphine produces one metabolite, Herojn another and codeine...
... sake.
a drug test for heroin will be positive for morphine , after all that's what it is. While there is a specific ... hours of intake to find it. After that it will be all morphine .
Oxycontin is a semi-synthetic opioid and while ... the confirmation GC/MS test will report only that morphine or codeine was not present and therfore the drug test...
- Gapapentin aka as Neurontin 31st January 2007
... Neurontin my other pain Meds don't work as well ? I take morphine 60mg 4 times day and Percocet 7.5 325mg. Thanks all...
... but still the same. The insert says hydrocodone and morphine increase Neurontin and Neurontin decreases hydrocodone ... and morphine . So anyone that intends on taking narcotic meds shouldnt...
- Tired of being in pain.. 29th January 2007
... any other medications out there? Maybe some kind of morphine or something? Or is that alot stronger? I'd appreciate...
... Hi Young one, Yes there is long acting morphine , MSContin is 8 hour morph, Kadian is 12 hour morph ... divdided into two doses for more even coverage. Although morphine is the gold standard to which other meds are compared ... , morphine is hardly the strongest, It's actually one of the ... stronger MG to Mg. The only class 11 opiate weaker than morphine is demerol.
Your doing the right thing by calling ... 50ugh patch is roughly equivlent to 150-200 mgs of morphine per day or 100 to 140 mgs o oxyC per day. It is too...
- Do pain meds cause more pain? 24th January 2007
... med can worsen the pain. The report I read involved morphine , and it had to do with the "excitatory pathway" that ... meds in the morphine line can effect. Bottom line? The research participants ... had been on morphine a long time and found that the drug had caused a condition ... solution here was opioid rotation, substituting the morphine for another opioid - in this case I believe it was...
- Vicodin (Hydrocodone) questions...my first time taking this med 24th January 2007
... they are easier to tolerate than the opioid class " morphine & codeine".
There are meds to help with nausea...
- Withdrawals......oh The Humanity 24th January 2007
... For what its worth,
i am on the same amt of morphine but i had an experience when i was taking oxycodone...
- Max dosage Oxycontin??? 23rd January 2007
... it's called opioid rotation. Maybe switching to morphine or the patch is an alternative your dr would consider...
- Young, untreated, and time to change primaries! 21st January 2007
... might have been the only answer!), we switched to Morphine . I was also given the choice of Oxycontin, but Percocet...
... years.
The only time I've been "pumped-up" with morphine and Ativan was right before having an NG tube placed...
... come in on a regular basis for their injection of morphine or demerol. SO!!............to be on the opposite...
... will react in the most opposite direction. I was on Morphine for about 3 years, while it makes others tired I did...
- Change in medications 20th January 2007
... this is definately not normal for me. When on the morphine one or two joints would hurt but now they all hurt...
... concerns me is that it was a big jump to go from the Morphine to the Fentanyl so I figured I'd be pretty pain free...
... worse which is why I am concerned.
When on the Morphine prior to the problems I started having a month ago ... nice, said that he'd be willing to start carrying my Morphine because I am unhappy with the other Pharmacy when ... few days at first when I most likely still had some morphine in my system I and couldn't sleep and now sleeping...
... Vicoden, Norco, Dilaudid, Kadian (sustained-release Morphine ), Methadone, OxyContin, Fentanyl.......whew! I'm...
... I was not the same person I was when I was on the Morphine .
My speach was slurred, I couldn't remember anything...
- any hoosiers having drug screens falsified by docs? 18th January 2007
... management doctor in Florida. Prior to my implant ( Morphine Pump) I was being prescribed a lot oral meds like...
... and they are recommending that his next option is a morphine pump. Can you believe that, from a percocet to a Morphine...
... they found the M3 metabolite they look for to detect morphine and they found the hydromporphone that oxy breaks...
- Advice when switching Pain Docs 18th January 2007
... particular doctor that fled to Syria implanted my morphine pump and before the wound had even healed up wasn ... year battle with DDD, spinal fusions, chronic pain, morphine pump etc that I really don't believe that I have found...
- Pain after lumbar fusion 16th January 2007
... management doctor was the implantable Codman 3000 morphine pump. I have since heard of some type of electric...
- Fentanyl Patch Sandoz vs Mylan? 15th January 2007
... and I'm wondering if I wasn't actually going through Morphine withdrawal and the Mylan just wasn't working well...
... going to put me back on MS Contin.
I haven’t been on Morphine for over a year and I think the change will work better...
... at my keys. NEVER AGAIN! Rather have patches or morphine , although morphine and I had problems I don't want...
- Does anyone have advice? On 12-15 Norco a day and would like to decrease. 14th January 2007
... tried Kadian which is the sustained-release form of Morphine , but maybe a short-acting Morphine would be ok. Have...
... you need to get this under control. I am on 30 mg morphine twice a day slow release, #10 percosets-up to 6 a...
- 1700 mgs of codeine contin DOC IS CHANGING MEDS HELP 14th January 2007
... these pills a day,
a few months ago we tried some morphine wich didnt work to low a dose 2mlgs every 4 hrs,well...
... codeine would convert to reallyhigh doses of oxy or morphine . It looks like he started around hal of what the chart ... that much codeine.
A much smaller dose of oxy of morphine would have to be easier on the stomach. Another problem ... are well known for lasting 12. 3 times a day with morphine is standard and 3 times a day with oxy is what most ... took 16 adjustments and 6 months to switch from oral morphine to a pump delivering morphine. It's also taken 6-8 ... than they have too.
Codiene is much weaker than morphine mg: mg, and oxy is even stronger than morphine. It...
... refused to up my dose. In Dec 2004 I also had a Codman morphine pump implanted and I finally am getting some relief...
... effects.
Based on what I've read over the years, morphine , oxycodone, fentanyl etc. do NOT have a ceiling effect...
- QUESTION for anyone please. 13th January 2007
... anyone can share but when you reduce the amount of morphine you take on a regular basis, your pain level is excruciatin...
... anyone can share but when you reduce the amount of morphine you take on a regular basis, your pain level is excruciatin ... pain. I believe this is extremely rare, however. Morphine , and others in its class (hydromorphone and oxymorphone...
- Amantadine for opiate tol. reversal 13th January 2007
... Hi catpoo, You have a pretty sharp GP, Oxy and morphine are different classes of opiates, One being synthetic ... and morphine being an opium akaloy or opioid rather than an opiate ... rotating opiates, It makes sense andd is recomeneded that morphine be rotated every 6 months because one of the metabolites ... of morphine breaks down into can cause restless leg syndrome if...
- Pain meds not working any more need help 12th January 2007
... feeling hopeless. I also feel like a slave to the morphine . If I have this much pain when I take the meds, then...
- need methadone help 11th January 2007
... oral methadone equals about the same as 5mg of orqal morphine (in general terms). However, this 1:1 conversion ... they say that a person tolerant to a large dose of morphine is not tolerant to the same number of miligrams of ... my table shows that a person taking up to 100mg of morphine per day can only tolerate methadone at a third of ... which is a 3:1 ratio. A person taking up to 800mg of morphine per day can only tolerate one twelfth of that total ... the info I have - First you convert Oxycodone to a Morphine equivalent. My info says you'd multiply your 120mg ... of oxy x 1.5 giving you a total morphine equivalent of 180mg/day. Then you apply the 5:1 conversion ... I wondered how on earth a person taking 100mg of morphine per day could possibly survive relatively pain free...
- is there something that can help me 9th January 2007
... right med for me.
I went from that to the pump with morphine on a cold switch and it was like someone turned the...
- Generic medications? 7th January 2007
... I take morphine sulfate which is generic , and take 60 mgs , 3X a...
... anyone can market it as a generic.
As far as the morphine sulphate that the other person was on, I was also...
... There is a generic version of MSContin 8-12 hour morphine but there aren't generic versions of the longer acting ... morphine products like Kadian and Avinza. Methadone is availabale...
- What is a "Triplicate"?? 5th January 2007
... The Schedule 2 meds are those containing Oxycodone, Morphine , Fentanyl, Demerol, etc. They cannot have refills...
- High doses of meds 4th January 2007
... I remeber best looked something like 100-200mgs of morphine and you used 3:1, 3oo--500mgs of morphine and you ... the factor. The chart went uo to 1000 mgs of daily morphine and at that level of dependency 10:1 or 100 mgs of ... most withdrawal from any dose of injectable heroin or morphine .
That is a huge dose of fentanyl SC, and it went ... article. I've jumped back and forth between 600 mgs of morphine and 120 mgs of meth several times. The switch to meth ... was always easy, but the switch to morphine was pretty unpleaseant every time for about 3 weeks...
- Cymbalta for pain management? 3rd January 2007
... I was given Cymbalta today along with Morphine at my first visit to a pain clinic......
I am worried...
- How do Pain Meds Help You? 29th December 2006
... Im on 180 mg morphine sulfate ( generic) a day w/ adjusted to now (3) 5...
- screwy pain scale 1-10 28th December 2006
... 110/60 and a pulse of 82 , doesn't need a shot of morphine simpy because they report a 10. A shot of any IV or ... going to go into cardiac arrest from 5 or 10 mgs of IV morphine .
Try to create a concise document where you explain...
- Pain Comming From A Buldge ? How to cope ? 28th December 2006
... ease the pain ? I do take
15mg percocets and 30mg morphine but it doesn't help all the time.
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- Doctor Says Fusion but I am at a 6-8 on the pain scale!!! 27th December 2006
... elephant and still complains when taking 2000mgs of morphine a day.
Even when surgery fails and they agressively...
- Fentanyl Dose...Is This Normal? 27th December 2006
... have the same problem as you as I was taking 30 mg of morphine 2X a day prior to switching over. Maybe you should...
- What follows? 26th December 2006
... find out and work the system.
Being unable to take morphine and methadone makes it more difficult. Other ER meds...
... Yes they say I should try morphine , and methadone which I tried morphine about a year...
- Pain Meds and trying to get a new job... 22nd December 2006
... company said Ms."" ..we found you to test positive to morphine ...." I said yup....and they asked if I had a script...
