- Opinions welcome ... 3rd April 2005
... time released medicine. Like Oramorph/a time released morphine , Methadone/a long acting pain killer, Oxycontin/time...
- Which is stronger? 2nd April 2005
... Drugs are usually compared to Morphine. Because Morphine is the gold standard to which others are compared ... latest that I read, was that Mg to Mg Hydroccodone and Morphine are approximately the same. I have not seen an Equianalgesi ... , but I can tell you what Oxycodone (Percocet) to Morphine is. On the Equianalgesic chart 22.5 mg of Oxycodone ... would be the same as 45 mg to morphine (therapeutically equivalent). However, everyone responds...
- Couple questions about methadone.... 1st April 2005
... methadone as a base drug to take something along the morphine or oxycodone line for BT. But your not, your on Duragesic...
... methadone as a base drug to take something along the morphine or oxycodone line for BT. But your not, your on Duragesic...
- can't tolerate meds - help! 1st April 2005
... increasing trouble breathing. told to stop that and went to morphine and another neurontin-type drug. horrible reaction...
- Lidocaine Puch via IV over 6 hours - Anyone ever heard of such a thing? 1st April 2005
... life and manage their pain, even when they implant IT morphine pumps, they still refer you to a PM doc for maintaining ... absurd cases where a surgeon is ready to implant a morphine pump because the patient is complaining of pain 6 ... post op. It's a bit extreme to jump from surgery to a morphine pump without trying everything else first but it is ... the catch, when other methods have failed. Why use morphine if Ultram and Neurontin work? That's what your doing...
- Everyone! Kadian & Avinza 29th March 2005
... you guess at whether I will do better or worse on a morphine drug? My instinct is to just stay on the Oxycontin...
... when taken...sometimes an "up" feeling instead of morphine 's drowsiness.
Of course the majority of people taking ... past the euphoria I assume but when switching to a morphine the change can be drudgery. This side effect passes...
- Did Not know my insurance was an MD!!! Shoreline Ya Around??? 29th March 2005
... Hey Suzie, Morphine is the gold standard to which other opiates are compared ... , so first you convert the oxy to morphine , IMO 1:1.5 is the right conversion from Oxy to morphine ... 50% stronger, so your oxy dose becomes 420 mgs of morphine . From their, I use a 5:1 conversion because that's ... have bounced between 120 mgs of meth and 600 mgs of morphine and back without any major difference in pain control ... clearer and motivation was much easier to find while on morphine though and that's a major side effect if your still ... can do is try and see how it goes.
so 420 mgs of morphine would equate to 80 mgs of methadone. Now that's a ... reponse to meth.
What was so intolerable about taking morphine ? Generic MSC would be a little cheaper than oxy and...
- Question about methadone 29th March 2005
... Cajun, I took meth for several years and have used morphine for over a year, and tried OxyC and Duragesic. Pain ... Some have limits, like they won't exceeed 200 mgs of morphine a day, some know that their is no ceiling on any pure ... roughly the same strength or a little weaker than morphine , most conversion are 1:1 or .8:1 meaning 8mgs of morphine ... is equal to 10 mgs of hydro.
Morphine is the gold standard to which other meds are compared ... equate whatever med you are on to an equal dose of morphine and then convert it to whatever med you are going ... conversions.Most of these have meth being about 1:1 to morphine but again, that's only for a single dose. They don ...
120 mgs of hydro would be equal to say 100mgs of morphine , Using a safer calculation "5:1" you would likely ... was taking 120 mgs of meth , swtched to 600 mgs of morphine after several adjustement, when I lost insurance, ... provided the same or better relief as 600 mgs of morphine .
If the docs had followed most published conversion ... charts I would have gone from 600 mgs of morphine back to 600 mgs of meth which would have killed me ... of response. If you had 10 people taking 100 mgs of morphine a day switch to meth, some folks would need twice ... One person may not tolerate meth but do great on morphine or Hydro, or vice versa, Some folks can't stand the ... side effects of morphine but do great on meth.
Nobody can really predict ... tend to be stimulating and cause less drowsiness. Morphine and meth tend to cause more drowsiness and you need...
... short half life and short duration. When you take morphine orally only half crosses the blood brain barrier where ... brain barrier and has a longer half life than both Morphine and Dilauaid. Rotating or changing your BT med from ... you could use 30 mgs of MSIR or 4 mgs of dilaudid. Morphine and oxy also come in liquid form which acts a little...
- Great Website 29th March 2005
... 1400 for a months worth or OxyC or MSC, Hmmm hasn't morphine been around 200 years and oxycodone 40 years, and...
- Shore- question about changing meds 27th March 2005
... between drugs.
Your posts say I would need 50% MORE morphine than Oxycontin, but he is saying 50% less. I'm scared...
... would be equally tolerant to an equianelgesic dose of morphine or methadone, but we know that's not always true. ... different meds.
You may get better relief from morphine or meth or fent than you did from oxy even at what ... the smartest thing to do is start you at 450 mgs of morphine , particularly if you have never taken oral morphine ... . You might find you can't take 200 mgs of morphine without extreme sedation, barfing and being constipated ... the lower dose before jumping to a higher dose of morphine .
This is where comunication is important with ... with 30 mg Roxi for BT to 2mgs per day of Intrathecal morphine , It took 6 months, a dozen adjustments and I'm now ... at 12.3 mgs of morphine per day, I have a morning bolus and a night time ... the side effect that normally deminsih with time. Morphine is much more sedating than oxycodone, many people ... energized by oxy where alot of folks first few days on morphine will be spent sleeping, but the drowsiness is something ...
It took 6 months to find the right dose of IT morphine and now they want to switch to dilaudid. It was supposed ... seen a meth dose increase 10 fold in one year or a morphine dose do the same, but I have seen it over and over ... years on the same dose of meth and when I switched to morphine after titrating, I never needed an increase. I lost...
... you guess at whether I will do better or worse on a morphine drug? My instinct is to just stay on the Oxycontin...
... just wanted to tell you that my dr. switched me from Morphine to Dilaudid in my pump about 2 months ago. I find ... better for me. I am on a bit more than half the amt of morphine . I was afraid that he would try me on 1/4 the dose...
- My PM Prescribed ACTIQ??? 26th March 2005
... look and said oh my God. Thankfully they injected morphine into his port and broke the cycle of pain for my little...
... almost too much to handle.
Thankfully they injected morphine into his port and broke the cycle of pain for my little...
- Allergic to codeine & its related drugs - any advice? 24th March 2005
... to codeine, including hydrocodone, also allergic to morphine . Currently using Lipoderm patches (very ineffective...
... fentanyl patch? I get hives with codeine, hydrocodone and morphine but do not with fentanyl. Has this drug come up with...
... fentanyl patch? I get hives with codeine, hydrocodone and morphine but do not with fentanyl. Has this drug come up with...
- Avinza withdrawal - any natural help? 23rd March 2005
... because i'm sure he's got diarhea as i did because the morphine was so incredibly painfully constipating for me. ...
- Kadian Question(s) - Shoreline? 23rd March 2005
... side effects, although sedatin is common with all morphine products and rarely a good reson to discontinue morphine ... drowsiness to subside, but that's expected with all morphine products. If you switched from one of the synthetic...
- Update 17th March 2005
... with another for break though pain so he put me on Morphine sulfate sr 15mg 12 hr acting and Statex which is ... morphine also 5mg every 4-6 hrs when needed.He said come back...
... Morphine sulfate sr 15mg 12 hr acting and Statex which is ... morphine also 5mg every 4-6 hrs when needed.He said come back...
- Shore, how are things on the home front??? 17th March 2005
... that Dave is in the middle of changing pump meds from morphine to Dilaudid and having to retitrate so he may be uncomforta...
- Is oxycontin the best there is? 16th March 2005
... only give me marginal relief. There are several LA morphine products available. But any time you change med types...
... expect that he will say "sure okay" or not? Are the LA morphine s similar to the oxy - in that I mean is my pain "bad ... there a relativity between oxycontin is = to the LA morphine ? In the hospital the morphine seemed to do a much...
...
The dr shouldn't have problem with putting you Morphine . Morphine is MUCH more effective thru an IV than ... orally by a factor of three. In other words a 5Mg Morphine injection is as effective as Short Acting 15Mg Morphine ... Add to that the fact that taken orally 40% of the morphine crosses the blood/brain barrier while about 70% of ... that Mg for Mg Oxycontin is about twice as potent as Morphine . Of course this is an average taken in clinical trials ... any med so you may receive better analgesia with the morphine . Since you are currently taken 50Mg of Oxycontin...
- muscle spasms+flu, plus thanks4posts! 16th March 2005
... the er during the middle of the night begging for morphine lol. Rounds of different antibiotics/steroids, etc...
- Twisten, how are you doing? 15th March 2005
... Oxycontin since IBS/P always seems to start while I taking Morphine . I think that now that he has put me on Ativan for...
- pelvic pain?? 15th March 2005
... shelf. However Oxycodone has been around 35+ years, Morphine has been around for several hundred years and the ... anyones side trying to comprehend how any dose of morphine could cost $1400 a month.
This is Walgreens on...
- severe pain 13th March 2005
... are going through. I think I would be
screaming ' Morphine ' ! (I am serious !)
I hope you can find someone...
... nothing, even in the hospital, while i was on the morphine it only killed the pain for 15 minutes, im just worried...
... nothing, even in the hospital, while i was on the morphine it only killed the pain for 15 minutes, im just worried...
- Help, need pain relief. 13th March 2005
... the type that fights any meds and esp. anything like morphine (heaven forbid) but she got to the point where she...
- How can I stay calm and unstressed? 12th March 2005
... when I have stress of increase in activity. I have a morphine pump, take vicotine and neurotin for pain and quinine...
- continued methadone updates...how i'm doing 9th March 2005
... my last resort in a way...because, I now know that morphine doesn't work as well as this. Fentanyl doesn't work...
- New here.....need advice 8th March 2005
... wrong, I not against opiates (I'm currently taking Morphine and Oxycodone myself), they just need to have their...
- Kadian HELP Shoreline 8th March 2005
... inside the capsule are tiny beads of polymer coated morphine . Different beads have different amunt of polymer coatng ... the ones that have a thicker coating on the actual morphine inside the beads. The beads are designed to release ... next to haveing a pump dliving a constant flow of morphine .
I've seena few of the beads in my own stool but ... will simply give him the numbers of nanograms fof morphine per ml in your blood. There isn't a specfic number ... )
The odse your on either works or it doesn't. Morphine whether it's kadna, avinza, MSC or a generic LA morphine ... are you taking. If your taking less than 50% more morphine than the oxy, I wouldn't expect you to get better ... rlief. Oxy is stronger mg to mg than morphine . Most conversions are 1:1.5, oxy being stronger. However ... switch back.
I'v never seen a patient start out on morphine and within a year their dse is 8 times more than what ... why there is a greater abuse problem with oxy than morphine other than the high or energized feeling xy can create ... Unless side effects are preventing a dose increase in morphine thre is no reasn not to increrase other than the docs ... to try t o figure out if the conversion from oxy to morphine was correct. But you know better than I, simply by ... than every 24 hours, than you may be loosing a little morphine , but that can be resovled by using ashortr acting ... what may or may not be absorbed. ONly half of oral morphine even croses the blood brain barrier. That's why it ... takes more morphine to create the same relief that oxy does . Oxy is metabolize ... barrier in the 70% range rather then the high 40's like morphine .
Good luck, Dave...
- Question to those on Duragesic patch 7th March 2005
... that contain a small amount of fentanyl (same type of morphine that is in the patches.
NAME: ACTIQ
It comes...
... 000 on my new insurance so I have now gone back to morphine until I can figure out a cheaper solutin...they are...
- Shoreline -a specific generic question!! 6th March 2005
... don't think he'll feel too comfy about upping my morphine to even close to 600mgs- and I'm on 240 now. I take...
... side to save cost. It's not just meth, It's their LA morphine , MSIR and Oxycodone products. I won't except anything ... I could feel a difference in BT meds and their LA morphine .
I've never had a problem with any other manufacturer ... days is plenty of time to know how well a dose of morphine works.
Take care, Dave...
... migraines came back (believe it or not I think the morphine causes them - dilaudid does, and when the hospital ... convinced them to give me Imitrex - the same with the morphine these last 3 weeks) and my shoulder, neck, knee pain ... came back - i just hurt everywhere, and if 3 weeks of morphine isn't gonna do it... I called my doc and he told the...
... under control, until I got on this way-too-low dose of morphine . I thought I was in pain before - i'll live with that ... the ER if I didn't have any meth, even tho I have morphine ! So anyway, I took 80mg at 5:30am. This probably...
... BTW, morphine can definitly cause migrains or other headaches. ... tried msc with msir for bt pain and i had to quite the morphine after a month because i had almost daily morning headaches...
... mentioned, but I think he was referring to my asking about morphine . Anyone? Thank you and about the head aches...
- Help! Questions about meds?! 6th March 2005
... constant level. Other LA meds would be MS Contin ( Morphine ), Kadian (Morphine), Duragesic (Fentanyl), and now...
- ---------MCRHJRB---------Prialt Inquiry 4th March 2005
... only the Dilaudid without stating if they had tried morphine (much better int the pump than taken orally) or any...
- Gosh I am chatty tonight/Rescue-b/t meds 3rd March 2005
... over 40 Roxi I have put aside for the switch from morphine to dilaudid at the next refill just from the last ... granular cysts" developing from a high concentration of morphine "number of mgs per ml" at the tip of the cath we will ... switch to Dilaudid which is more solluable than morphine and less likely to block the cath tip.
Just our...
- methadone 40mg's - shorline? 3rd March 2005
... due to my old doc only Rx'd expensive drugs like ER morphine and Duragesic. I was on Duragesic which ran me about...
... 120 and when bopping back and forth between meth and morphine . 120 of meth to 600 of morphine and back again seemed ... estimated strength of meth 5-10X times stronger than morphine , Not 1:1 or 1:2, 1:5 is what it took, 5 times the ... number of mgs of morphine to equal meth.
It takes 5 days to reach steady ... you had 10 people converting from the same dose of morphine to meth you would end up with different doses for...
- News meds questions ! 1st March 2005
... at them the lortab were the same but he changed the morphine . I was on Morphine Sulfate SA 30 mgs 3 x a day. Now ... Im Morphine Sulfate ER 60 mgs and it says 1 by mouth ( duh..heheh...
... at them the lortab were the same but he changed the morphine . I was on Morphine Sulfate SA 30 mgs 3 x a day. Now ... Im Morphine Sulfate ER 60 mgs and it says 1 by mouth ( duh..heheh ...
Hi Deana,
What has happened is that your morphine has been changed to a long acting morphine ..generic ... another generic MSContin. looks like your long acting morphine has been doubled...did you ask for additional strength ... in yr morphine ?
Sparkles...
... reread the bottle for the umpteenth time, it says its morphine sulfate ER 60 mgs . My others were a real deep purple...
... [QUOTE=deana p] it says its morphine sulfate ER 60 mgs . My others were a real deep purple ... pulp. Might have trouble sleeping..yes, even with morphine . I did. I am really happy you requested an increase...
- Hey Shore- from Spuds- was in hospital 24-27 28th February 2005
... you from a high dose of meth to such a low dose of morphine .
Using vicodin to supplement the MSC shouldn't ... could comfortably bring you off, given the amount of morphine you have.
I think your definitely going to need ... more morphine but you also need to be able to slow down the increases ... of morphine once you find a level of pain you can live with while ... tapering off the meth. There will be a point that extra morphine won't stop all the meth ickies. So you have to ride ... adjustments before you worry about fine tuning the morphine .
You are probably going to feel bad at some point ... you to take additional meth with the full dose of morphine he has prescribed. I'm pretty sure you will need more ... morphine but It's not my place to tell you to do other than ... 120 when I switched back and forth between meth and morphine , but it took a lot of morphine to get the same relief ... . Depending on your docs comfort prescribing morphine will make a big difference in how fast you get the ... end point and then it's just a matter of getting the morphine right. Unfortunately I have no control over that aspect ... variable taper bringing the meth down as you bring the morphine up, but your don't have enough morpine to do this ... up some.Then again, you may respond wonderfully to morphine and that dose will manage your pain in the long run ... . Have you taken morphine and that's why I asked what type of relief yu got ... swapping a couple doses of meth for a couple doses of morphine , you could do that in a couple weeks. I don't want ... 40 mgs isn't worth feeling funky that long. If your morphine has been increased by then just DC the remainder of...
... a large dose to get a grip.
Half meth and half morphine isn't a bad starting place, you do have to get used ... stay at that level untill you a have access to more morphine / next apt. Don't owrry about the dilaudid, that was ... again tomorrow.
IF you can manage at 50% meth/50% morphine let me know how yorur doing and we can make some more ... not getting pain relief the doc would increase the morphine and give you more to work with. When do you see you ... can get used to 1/2 your old meth and 1/2 the new morphine dose, we can get the rest of the way there. If that...
... made to manage the pain, but simply adjusting the morphine to combat the differntial withdrawal really won't ... his ratio or conversion rate.
Fine tuning the morphine can always be done. A little extra pain now isn't ... Personally my head was much clearer off meth and on morphine .
Good luck and keep us posted.You do have the ... get through this. Hydro is about 80% as strong as morphine mg to mg so it will give you an idea of how much additional ... morphine you may need once the meth is out of your system....
- I have had it!!! 26th February 2005
... conversation as to what th3e problem was with the morphine sulfate pills he gave me. Well they made me sick ... had his hip replaced and that he was sick off the morphine that they gave him in the hospital. Well....HE asks ... going to give me anything for the pain. He gace me 60 morphine pills and last week 60 percocets. I told him he could ... take the morphine pills back...THEY MAKE ME SICK. I guess he will never...
... was having difficulty making a decision about the morphine .If you were taking it with the percocet .I would guess ... making you ill. I would venture to guess he was trying morphine by itself.
When you handed back the script for morphine ... him.
my thinking is that he wanted to try you on morphine by itself.
This way your physician can document ... that he tried morphine .
Oxycodone is abused so widely he thought he would ... try morphine first and then if necessary try Oxycodone.
I think...
... I didn't hand back the script for the morphine . I took the morphine and it made me ill. I called...
... he seemed alittle annoyed. He switched my meds to morphine . I took the morphine and it made me ill. I called...
... another? I sure would. Many many people get sick on morphine .....it's not unheard of at all. I took oxycodone ... (with no effect at all) then morphine IR and it gave me welts (hives sort of) and went on...
- looking for the generic Duragesic patch wearer..I need info 25th February 2005
... Constipation, of course continues, but not as bad as morphine . Drowsiness at first with a new patch or a strength...
- PM doctor and meds 25th February 2005
... did not give an explaination but changed my meds to morphine sulfate instant relief. So i took one yesterday and ... percocets were working and give me something like morphine . That scares me. I think I hurt my back even worse ... hugging the toilet bowl and straining my back. The morphine did nothing for my pain but made me sick. Also, I ... if that was an allergic reaction. I have never had morphine before. If someone could PLEASE respond as to what...
... did not give an explaination but changed my meds to morphine sulfate instant relief. So i took one yesterday and ... percocets were working and give me something like morphine . I have enough percocets to get me by till Monday ... if that was an allergic reaction. I have never had morphine before. If someone could PLEASE respond as to what...
... or nurse practioners, or his covering doc how this morphine does not work and you need to be back on your prior...
... first starting a new opiate. I'm on msc which is morphine that is time-released and that was a side effect I...
- Shore, another question...drug tests this time 25th February 2005
... to detect use of the opiates - heroin, codeine and morphine but not other opiates such as hydromorphone, hydrocodone ... confirmation technique for quantification of opiates - morphine and codeine ( Note - oxycodone is not currently included ... responses from these assays expressed as ng/ml of morphine equivalents were substantially lower than GC/MS determinati...
... panel UA, A test that detetcts the metabolites from morphine , Heroin and codien won't neccesarrily detect Oxycodone ... patients.
Laboratory Methods
Laboratory detection of morphine and codeine is performed by immunoassay. Confirmation ... Washington, DC 20306-6000.
Opiate testing for morphine and codeine is performed routinely in forensic urine ... , Abuscreen radioimmunoassay (ABUS), Coat-A-Count morphine in urine (CAC), and EMIT d.a.u. opiate assay (EMIT ... assume they would find nothing at all, not even the morphine that can be confirmed by a printout from the pump...
- Help w/methadone, oxycontin and celebrex 25th February 2005
... percoset 3 times a day for breakthrough pain. The morphine wasn't working so I was still basically taking the...
... percoset 3 times a day for breakthrough pain. The morphine wasn't working so I was still basically taking the...
- Examples Please 23rd February 2005
... Class II drugs are:
Percocet and Percodan
Oxycontin
Morphine
MS Contin
Kadian
Fentanyl (Duragesic)
Methadone...
- 5 days in Bed..Just Need to Vent 22nd February 2005
... should be. 120mgs of Oxy is equivelent to 180 mgs of Morphine . I guess expecting our docs to know such things is...
- Help! Nervous about Med Change 22nd February 2005
... you going the easy way , too duragesic.
Oxy to morphine too Dilaudid and back or in any direction wouldn't...
- Introduction/Question 22nd February 2005
... that I told her when we talked about meds is that morphine , in a drip pump, in the hospital, does not do anything...
- Please help- I know there's knowledge out here! 20th February 2005
... because of the long half life) leaves my body? Will the morphine dose be too low then?
Thank you all who read...
... much out of your system and if on an equal dose of morphine the differentiaal withdrawal could last another 5 ... a good article on meth with their conversion from morphine to methadone but going the oposite way will have different ... higher the dose of meth the greater the amount of morphine you will require.
[url]http://www.mainehospicecouncil ... based on single dose conversions. Most tables for morphine to methadone conversion suggest a 1:1 or 1:4 ratio ... treated previously with high doses of opioids:
Morphine – methadone conversion ratios
Daily oral morphine ... potency
Equianalgesic tables typically report the morphine :methadone ratio for parenteral dosing as 1:1 and for ... away from meth ranges from 3 times more potent than morphine to 10 times more potent.
I've hopped back and forth ... between meth and morphine several times and 5:1 seems more equianlegesic however ... able to bounce between 120 mgs of meth and 600 mgs of morphine and maintain equal relief. The bouncing was due to ... years I took it. When I had beni's I would choose morphine over meth because my head was clearer and It turned ... and motivation for me.
Switching from meth to morphine was like having the color turned back on in life, ... listen to you in order to find the aproriate dose of morphine .
Because of the high interpatient variations, my...
... I wean off meth, maybe back up to a lower dose of morphine , lower one, raise the other until I'm at the dose...
... Hey Leia, Discontinuing the meth as yo u raise the morphine would be the most sensable way. Docs seem to think ... a milder version of withdrawal that occurs because morphine doesn't bind to all the receptors that methadone does ... . Meth covers all the receptors that morphine does so switchiing to meth is easy but switching away ... Basically I would start with half the meth and half the morphine , you have already gotten that far It's kinda tough ... next two weeks. When do you see the doc again if the morphine just isn't cutting it. Ideally he would have you back ... of MSC you will definitely need a major increase in morphine once the meth is gone to get the same relief.
...
- High drug tolerance, help! 19th February 2005
... opiates which is an increase in inner cranial presure. Morphine is probably the worst but it's non synthetic like ... codeine. Both morphine and codeine are derived from opiun, now it's synthetically ... produced but extracting coedien and morphine and heroin were the first opiates available formedical ... is really someone who nrequires more than 100mgs of morphine per day, f yu have never taken around the clock meds ... better on the Fenatnyl patches and some do better than morphine . These are thre strongest opiates tha folks would...
- Chronic Pain & Jury Duty 17th February 2005
... dosage. It looks like I may be undergoing another morphine pump implant if my insurance will pay for it again...
- Pain then depression then more pain then... 16th February 2005
... ibuprofen such as oxyir, dilaudid and short acting morphine . Elavil works really good for some people as an anti...
... Hey Bilbo....Im on the generic morphine sulphate (cost reasons) so I dont know about the long...
- Morphine pump inplanted feb 1st 13th February 2005
... those have been treated, I am feeling very well. My morphine was switched to dilaudid and I also switched drs....
... awhile now I am up to 7mg/ml a day. They use 25% of morphine and marcane the more you need the quicker you have...
... breakthrough pain. These are fentanyl-based suckers ( morphine ) that melt in about 15 minutes and go straight into...
... breakthrough pain. These are fentanyl-based suckers ( morphine ) that melt in about 15 minutes and go straight into ... seeing these on a TV newspecial, and I like the idea of morphine loli-pop! Not meaning to demean anybody's pain here...
... damaged area and leads to the pump. You then have the morphine dripping right in the area of pain and the relief...
... The older synch med 1 can carry concentrations of morphine from 10mgs per ml oup to 30 mgs per ml. SO that would ... between refiills. Whatever conversion is correct for IT morphine to dilaudid means that you would have 5X the amount...
... potent meds delivered IT are, my last dose of oral morphine "Kadian" was 600mgs per day, now I recieve 12.3 mgs...
... injection down the road. Either with a stronger dose of morphine or a different med like dilaudid or fentanyl.
...
- Pain Pump - Questions for those who have it 12th February 2005
... illeostomy, she can only take SA meds and has been on Morphine Sulphate for years. She is at a very high dose and...
... done in hopice care.
They use Preservatve Free Morphine , Dilaudid, Fentanyl, suffentanyl, carfentanyl and...
... I have the implanted intrathecal morphine pump. I have not heard of an external pump, outside...
... chemo sessions. The doc has slowly cut her pain med ( morphine ) and this only makes her go thru withdrawal which...
... inserted into the spine and ran to an IV pump where the morphine dripped from into my spine. Over the next few days...
- Levator ani syndrome anyone, please??? 10th February 2005
... methadone and haven't had a problem since. I've also used morphine and featanyl and dilaudid nd neev had the problem...
... and broken hardware.
I also had an intrethecal morphine pump implanted last june. After years of every non...
... out of anesthesia once with levator ani spasms that morphine finally conquered.
The last procedure and all was...
- Shore: update on my new insurance's escalating price for my meds 9th February 2005
... it.
So, do you think my PM doc will prescribe morphine or something in that family? Of course I guess I...
... adndnext week she's going to switch rom meth back to morphine at a much lower dose than she was on when they switched...
... adndnext week she's going to switch rom meth back to morphine at a much lower dose than she was on when they switched...
- Bias against OxcyC..Or am I dreamin'? 8th February 2005
... 200mg Topomax,3600mg Skelaxin, 2000mgRelafin and 90mg Morphine time released.
This is the second day for the Morphine...
... for abusing MsContin as there is Oxy, it's just that Morphine has been around forever and the bad press has diminished ... have much Oxy you were taking prior to switching to morphine so we don't know how conservative the doc was when ... conservative but that you just don't do as well on morphine as the "NORM". Most drs will leave opening in ther...
... saying too. They knew all about the Oxcyc and now the morphine and they think my home is a safe environment. Now ... I just sit back and wait.
As to pain on morphine it still hurts bad but now my head uis fuzzy. Not...
... that Oxy is roughly 1.2 to 1.5 times as strong as morphine , conservative crossover dose would be 120Mg daily...
... now that my doc has switched me to Avinza which is morphine sulfate 24hr extended release,,, WELL now the rehab...
... they test for opiates they test for metabolites of morphine , codeine and Heroin. Synthetics can't be tested acurately...
... the OxcyC and my doc has put me on...You guessed it MORPHINE !!
I can't wait to see what they will think up when...
- visited my doc 7th February 2005
... this part :)
Conversion from Conventional Oral Morphine to MS CONTIN
A patient's daily morphine requirement ... is established using immediate-release oral
morphine (dosing every 4 to 6 hours). The patient is then converted ... Metabolism.) However, MS
CONTIN does not release morphine continuously over the course of a dosing
interval ... those that
occur when an identical daily dose of morphine is administered using conventional
oral formulations ... clinical significance of greater fluctuations
in morphine plasma level has not been systematically evaluated ... section 555
555
Conversion from Conventional Oral Morphine to MS CONTIN
A patient's daily morphine requirement ... is established using immediate-release oral
morphine (dosing every 4 to 6 hours). The patient is then converted...
... swithing you to AVINZA at the same daily intake of morphine . My PM dr recently switched me from MScontin to avinza...
... Hey Twisten,
Avinza is Morphine Sulfate like MsContin. Its release mechanism is different ... provides for a more consistant blood serum level of morphine which might help lower your BT meds. If she won't...
- Shore, got a ? for ya my friend 6th February 2005
... the cheapest opiate of all them.
There are generic morphine products just as effective as name brand MSContin ... and let me know if going with a gernic version of Morphine , Oxy, fentanyl, or meth will drp your copay back down...
- What Would Meds Cost Shorline Look At This 6th February 2005
... any info.
You are taking 2 LA meds - oxycontin and morphine and 2 SA percocet and lortab. And at really high doses...
- Out of Neurontin ETC.. HELP or Advice 5th February 2005
... part that I am STILL laughing about. He put me on MORPHINE ! I can get that all day long through my state ins...
- advice on generic oxycontin vs brand 4th February 2005
... oxycontin. MS Contin is 12 hour extended release morphine sulfate, and comes in generic and name brand in 15...
- Trying to find information: Study on knee surgery. 3rd February 2005
... involved just giving the standard anaesthesia, and morphine drip after. The other involved preteating the patients ... and had a lot better outcomes than just the standard morphine drip.
If anyones the names of the people who...
- Newbie with question about meds. 2nd February 2005
... out of bed. I have a pump implanted that delivers morphine . Yes I am physically dependnet on morpihine. It's...
- Upping Duragesic...question 1st February 2005
... 'itch' I havn't even really had that on this, nor morphine . But I once had it terribly as a teenager when I was...
- What's up with Shoreline, Beach erosion? 31st January 2005
... going to taper me off baclofen without tapering me off morphine . Hopefully with the new DX of spondy they will cover ... plenty of room to adjust that without increasing the morphine at refill time.
Oh well, the fun goes on. Another...
- switching from msc 28th January 2005
... Hey Twist, Most of what I have read about morphine suggesat that the doc rottates morphine and Hydromorph ... months or so. This allows the M6g metabolite from morphine to clear from your system and give your body a break ... . That morphine metabolite is the one that causes retless leg syndrome ... the next few months they will switch my pump from morphine to dilauadid. It may take a couple adjustmets to fine ... withdrawal. But that shouldn't be an issue going from morphine to hydromorphone and then back again. Once you find...
- what's the difference? 27th January 2005
... Oxycontin, except that is a modified release form of morphine . You take it on 2-3 times a day dosing, and it releases ... a very steady level of morphine over an 8 to 12 hour period. It's much more convienant ... MSContin tablet than to have to take small doses of MSir ( Morphine Sulfate Instant Release) every 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours...
... the long acting meds is the total amount of oxy or morphine that's in each pill.
IF you took 2 10 mg percocet ... that 20 mgs of IR oxy creates.
AS far as Oxy Vs Morphine , One is synthetic and one was originally derived from ... extract of opium. Morphine , heroin and codiene are derivatives of opium, People ... may be alergic to opium products like morphine or codeine but may do fine on synthetic products like ... are synthetically manufactured, the know what the morphine molacule looks like and it's chemical structure and ... syhthetic process. No actual opium is required to make morphine or codein any longer.
Morphine was the first opiate ... derived from opium and gthe first used in a syringe. So morphine is the gold standard to which other opiates are compared ... strength, mg:mg. Oxy is actually about 50% stronger than morphine , Morphine is not the big gun people seem to think ... are stonger when compared
mg:mg. But the idea that morphine was the big gun and oxy isn't was only true when oxy ... doses were not available in the doses that morphine was available in, or didn't prior to 96 when OxyContin ... cancer pain changed.
Most opiates are stronger than morphine but morphine is still used as something to compare ... condition that another person gets great relief from morphine with.
It's really just trial and error, as far...
- Shoreline...anyone... 27th January 2005
... ie: Oxycodone is in the same family as Dilaudid and Morphine , just at different levels for treating pain.....?...
- Broken MS Contin tablet 26th January 2005
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Type in search by active ingredient, thenType in Morphine and check RX drugs and hit querry, and you will see ... acting, liquid, short acting etc, By simply typing morphine in to search by ingredient and clicking search. You ... brand, their are 6 diffferent manufacturers of LA morphine in the strength you need. I try to stick with the...
- Help Shoreline!!!! 26th January 2005
... the process of weaning off meth. She was doing OK on morphine , had the car accident and developed seizurres,they...
... when I was taking Meth a couple years back
before morphine , I ran out and couldn't get my doctor on the phone...
- help, i need stronger pain meds can i ask my doc 26th January 2005
... likely a target for drug addicts/diversion, along with morphine , dilaudid, fentanyl, methadone, Ritalin and the other ... they can tell you to the pill how many percocet or morphine tablets they have. It's the law, they have to keep...
... gave me relief, my doctor switched to a low dose of morphine . Throughout a 6 month period, we increased the morphine...
... explain all this to me nor did he explain that it was a morphine drug. I found out myself through reading and research...
- Ultracet Will Ruin You Life!!!! 23rd January 2005
... may induce psychic and physical dependence of the morphine -type (µ-opioid). (See WARNINGS.) Dependence and abuse ... similar to that of other opioids. In contrast to morphine , tramadol has not been shown to cause
histamine release...
- Newbie needs info on PM 23rd January 2005
... pays for what they put in my pump. They pay for the Morphine but I'm presently trying o get the baclofen covered...
- For Shoreline and all others - Alot has happened 22nd January 2005
... pain and takes patients straight from Ultram to LA morphine would have a hard time justifying their own prescribing...
- Question...first time on Duragesic 20th January 2005
... taking them, there too addictive....then gives me morphine ER to take. But I had to take a few yesterday (actually...
- Question about Oxycontin 20th January 2005
... a bad sign. Have you tried the sustained-release morphine products? IMO, they have side effects somewhere between...
- Need Info On Opioid Rotation-HELP 20th January 2005
... would be equally tolerant to 900 mgs of MSContin "LA morphine " But hese are 2 different drugs in 2 distinct classes ... of popiates, ones a synthetic opioid and morphine is a naturally occuring opiate, they have some similarities...
- Shoreline, and anyone else. Best way to get off Norco?? 20th January 2005
... I had my Diskogram an hour North of here, it took Morphine to get it under control, the ESI & Facets I had on ... Diskogram.
My Emergency surgery (someone else) gave me morphine in the Hospital and 4mg Dilaudid at home every 4 hours ... BUt he is going to start me with Dilaudid instead of Morphine .
If I specifically ask for better pain management...
... that time, he will put on my chart to begin with the Morphine , then to Dilaudid.
By the way, due to severe abdominal...
- What are everyone's thoughts re: dosages 20th January 2005
... I also have to look forward to switching from IT morphine to IT diluaid. Will he hit the nail on the head, on...
