- MS contin problem? 27th August 2004
... doctor but can this be happening to me from not taking morphine just one day after only taking one month or maybe ... I am reacting to the morphine something not been right all week.
FIgured one of...
... is a considerable dop. Having a constant supply of morphine in your blood system for a month and whatever you ... isn't an unusual problem with opiates, specifically morphine .
First, You might simply become acomadated to the ... morphine and the problem could resolve itself. If that doesn ... be from build of from one of the two matabolites. Morphine breaks down into the M3g and the M6g metabolite. The ... metaboilite is to either alternate from Hydromorphone to morphine every couple months to allow the M6g to clear or treat ... drugs in clinical trials combing dextromathorphan and morphine to add NMDA blocking abilty to toher opiates. Morphidex ... talking to your doc about ther sleep problem caused by morphine s metabolit may have been the better thing to do.
... only way to stop withdrawal is by reinstating the morphine at it's previous dose. 200mgs may be enough after ... parkinsons meds are expensive.
Withdrawal from morphine can start within 4-6 hours of discontinuation, It ... it very quickly. Withing 12 hours you have little morphine , and a few of ther metabolites that do and don't relieve ... for the night. That was the only real downfall of morphine for me. But I hadn't slept though the night on any ... methadone can cause the herky jerks too and now with the morphine in the pump I still take Klonopin for the herky jerks ... have read it's common practice in hopsice to rotate morphine and dlilaudid every 3-6 months to allow the morphine...
- Houston Pain Doctors? 26th August 2004
... Adding dextromathorphan "cough supresant" will give morphine , Oxycodone, Hydrocodone or Hydromorphone the same...
... giving me a pump because I could not stay awake on morphine pills, nor function well at work.
Within 2 weeks...
- End of my pain med life 23rd August 2004
... needed. That slowly raised from that to slow release morphine to oxycontin, and eventually to duragesic patches...
- Need advice from you back folks 22nd August 2004
... I'm taking vicodin nearly every 4 hours PLUS the morphine , it's doing nothing. I think it's an acute flare up...
... of the ER bout all they'll do is give me a shot of morphine , which is fine shortterm but not long term.
Fortunately...
- Need alternative med ideas.... 19th August 2004
... had twilight sedation while being dependent on meth, morphine , fentanyl or oxy, It's the nature of the beast. Is...
- Need med advice ASAP 17th August 2004
... with roxi for BT (90 mg a day). I take 400 mgs of morphine a day and dont use all the BT I am allowed because ... of the excellant pain relief I get from the morphine .
My problem is that I have had severe sedation with ... sleeping but I am almost positive the main culprit is the morphine . I have tried stimulants, specifically dexadrine. ... them all for the most part (except the longer acting morphine s) and none of the others helped NEAR as much as this ... energy boost). My thought is that by lowering the morphine and raising the oxycodone, I could prevent some of...
... children as you deal with your side effects of the morphine . Somehow you need to strike a balance between what...
... increase yet. In fact during the conversion from oxy to morphine , I was able to get by on a lower dosage of morphine...
... It combats the sleepiness and people who have the morphine pump use it to help them. (I have the pump and experience...
... sedation with mscontin but not with the other two LA morphine meds out there??
Kissa, i am already on lexapro...
- The do's and don'ts of medications 17th August 2004
... shoes, XX from out of town comes in on a high dose of morphine sulfate and has run out and you don't know him from...
- In Pain Forever?/ Idet Declined By Insurance 17th August 2004
... There is also a new one a day 24 hour timed-release morphine that has been released. I am scheduled to be switched...
- Anyone need a good laugh? 17th August 2004
... some childrens tylenol, swear to god it's better than morphine ." I looked up at the doc and told him "No, I dont...
- So frustrated! 16th August 2004
... Kadian name but according to their website it is a morphine sulfate so I'm guessing it's similiar to or the same...
... Contin. While a 60mg MS Contine releases 30 mg of morphine at about the 45 minute mark and another 30mg at the...
- BT frequency 15th August 2004
... when I have the really bad days. I found that the morphine did NOT lose its time release function for me. I would ... need a lil tweaking but overall its a good thing the morphine is working well...its been my miracle drug!...
- withdraw type symptoms- 14th August 2004
... post surgical patients would prove that hydro, oxy, morphine and oral dilaudid do not last 6 hours.
IT's a ... their father came home from the civil war addicted to morphine after a field amputation.
For example. My mom was...
- DEA and NEW GUIDELINES 13th August 2004
... prescribe powerful painkillers such as Oxycontin and morphine without attracting the wrate of the DEA.
Many doctors...
- Had my PM follow up today. 12th August 2004
... nothing against the implants...I have the intrathecal morphine pump...but they should be used when you are no longer...
- I saw a great article on perscribing practices 12th August 2004
... attitude now.
What is a CPM? Is that the implanted morphine pump? If it is I have decided I'm not quite ready...
- pain management in hospital and out. 12th August 2004
... management. They had me taking 2 lortabs every 6 hours and morphine every 3 hours for bt pain. It wasn't working very...
... Thats strange how they gave you lortab,and morphine for breakthrough.i always thought a breakthrough med...
... The morphine was probably the instant release kind as opposed to...
... I had my spinal fusion in January. I was put on a morphine pump in recovery room. Well the morphine was less...
- About IC for Kissa, etc 11th August 2004
... that way...The PM Dr. actually recommended the la morphine (avinza or 12 hr morphine) at first as she thinks...
... went through it and it's just awful!
I'm on the LA morphine (ala MS Contin), as mentioned before right now at ... that might be it, not sure. I can say I do think the morphine is helpful with the visceral pain, I do not find it...
- How much tylenol is too much? 7th August 2004
... ultram, darvon, codeine phosphate tablets, oxy ir, morphine tabs, or dilaudid tabs, none of which cause adverse...
- driving while on pain meds 6th August 2004
... how I was limping so badly, well I hadn't taken my morphine and told him so. He said well it's probably a really...
- So I had an interesting day 6th August 2004
... and my back started spasming badly. Rushed to get my morphine and vicodin, I'm feeling somewhat better but definately...
... thru that once already and that's when they put in a morphine pump. But I had major problems with the pump so had...
- Xanax for chronic pain? 3rd August 2004
... now a lifetimne relationship do to the Intrathecal morphine pump installed 8 weeks ago.
A Pm doc that only...
- Sorry guys..a couple more ??'s about Methadone.. 2nd August 2004
... more stimulating, that's why no nodding off with Oxy. Morphine ca be very sedating at the beginning but it does get...
... about methadone. Heroin is created by acetylation of morphine , Heroin is made from opium and in the same class as ... Morphine and codeine called opiates, does that make hydrocodone ... is an opioid
If anything, Heroin is processed Morphine . Heroin is a trade name owned By IG Farben, the german ... the patent to Heroin, the hydrochloride of diacetyl morphine , was discovered by acetylation of morphine, Diacetylmorphin ... as Darvacet and levorphanol.
Using methadone , morphine or dilauadid is all the same except for the stigma ... to Darvecet is about the same as what Heroin is to morphine , only not that much stronger. So we can just as easily ... hydrocodone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydromorphone and morphine are all synthetic heroin, using the same parameters ... to heroin. How is heroin any closer to meth than to morphine , if anything Morphine is the closest chemically structured ... no more correct than saying, codeine is the same, morphine is the same, Hydromorphone, OxyMorphone, Oxycodone...
... heroin, we could call all pain meds synthetic heroin or morphine . There is more than one class of synthetic opioids ... the same drug, they are in the same family just like Morphine , Heroin, and codeine are in a family called Opiates ... structurely and pharmokeneticly related to Heroin are morphine and codeine and tincture of opium. But people wouldn ... synthesized including the naturally occuring Opiates like Morphine and codeine. Heroin is simply processed morphine....
... agree that all narcotic pain meds are either opiate or morphine dirivatives - just different strenghts and some w...
- pain meds & effects/managing surgery pain 2nd August 2004
... getting minimal post op meds in recovery, 10mgs of morphine , I was told they couldn't give me more but they would ... of managing your pain once you wake up. 5 mgs of IV morphine won't do squat if your used to taking 300 mgs of morphine...
... no effect for me at all. That I need high doses of morphine or dilaudid to help me. They said ok well take care ... was dying in pain by then. They gave me a shot of morphine which brought the pain under control. They then met...
- Avinza 3x a Day? 1st August 2004
... Hey Wonka, Kadian was the first long acting morphine touted as a once a day pill. The prescribing instructions ... brand and had a 50% copay, I switched to generic LA morphine , same dose 200mgs 3 times a day and found virtually...
- HELP...I cant take it anymore!! 1st August 2004
... hospital after surgery, they think giving you 5mg of morphine is HUGE. They don't understand the large doses of ... pain control in the hospital. Well, they started the morphine pump in the recovery room. It helped none! The Attila...
- Oxycontin to Methadone?? 30th July 2004
... recent articles put meth 4-10 times stronger than morphine and at best Oxy is 1.5 times stronger than morphine...
- side effects.....and confused !! 29th July 2004
... a long day at work when there is OxyContin and LA morphine . How about fentanyl for a sprained ankle.
It doesn ... AVINZA capsules are a modified-release formulation of morphine sulfate indicated for once daily administration for ... ) use.
MS CONTIN is a controlled-release oral morphine formulation indicated for the relief of moderate to...
... non opiate methods have you learned to manage pain?
Morphine takes time to ge used to the stomach upset and the...
- med. change! 29th July 2004
... same as takng one dose of 20mgs of instant release morphine . It's all about sustaining serum levels and what...
- chronic back pain Qs 29th July 2004
... from Ultram and Elevill to long acting opiates and morphine pumps are available. The idea of PM is not to remove...
- Please help me assess my mom's drug intake! 28th July 2004
...
Personally I have taken as much as 600 mgs of morphine a day for about a year before swithcing to an equal ... different docs know what the other is prescribing? Morphine actually causes an increase in inner cranial pressure ... effects are headaches, I see she takes headache meds so morphine may not be the best choice.
As far as the stigma ... of taking morphine , where most are tought or think it's the last line ... meds, that's not acurate. Oxycodone is stronger than morphine so is Dilauadid, Oxymorphone, Fenatanyl and methadone...
... effects of all these meds especially when combined. Morphine , Hydrocodone,. Xanax and Neurontin are all CNS depressants...
- Avinza and MS Contin 28th July 2004
... medications to MS Contin. I know that both medications are morphine , but would the dosage be the same? She takes 240mg...
- twitches from MSContin 26th July 2004
... From what I have experienced, Oxy is stronger than morphine , so a decrease there is expected, As far as replacing...
- My friend don't know what to do? 26th July 2004
... in 1997 still prescribes my oral meds. I have the morphine pump, but as he said, almost all patients using the...
- What new meds. are comming out? 26th July 2004
... a non-narcotic for pain, and is much stronger than morphine . It is called Prialt and is a calcium channel blocker ... only delivered by intrathecal pump, just like the morphine pump.
Do a google search on Prialt and you can find...
- med question 25th July 2004
... different kinds in the last 4 months. Darvon prcocet, morphine pills, liquid morphine, Dilaudid in the beginning...
... if discontinued abruptly.
Even with implantable morphine pumps they normally only shoot for 50-60% reduction ... Kadian or Avinza, Both are true 12-24 hour long acting morphine products that don't drop off after 6-8 hours....
- Question on meds 23rd July 2004
... other than one is a hydrocodone and the other one is a morphine sulphate.
Do they offer the same type of relief or...
... Actually OxyContn is Oxycodone and MSContin is morphine . There are several distinct classes of opiates and ... derived from the extract of opium, the opioids are Morphine , codeine and Heroin. They tend to carry more side ... thybaine and other molucules that make opiates work. Morphine is just the standard to which all other opiates are ... equal relief. The common conversion ratio for Oxy to morphine are 1:1 or 1:5:1, meaning oxy is either as strong ... example, Using the standard conversion from Oxy to morphine of 1.5:1
20 mgs of Oxy would be equal to 30 mgs ... of morphine .
When I had the pump implanted, the 30-60 mgs ... of morphine I use for BT pain for my back, didn't touch the visceral ... scar tissue to hold it in place. I took 60 mgs of morphine and it didn't touch the visceral pain, But 20 mgs ... Delta receptor activity that morphne does not.
The morphine works well on my back, I don't have neuropathic pain ... getting the same number of mgs of a stronger drug. Morphine is just the gold standard to which others are compared ... meaning one mg of dilaudid is roughly equal to 8 mgs of morphine . or 20 mgs of oxy is equal to 30 mgs of morphine. ... another.
If someone was alergic to the opioid class, morphine codeine and heroin, then they will probably do OK...
... started pain management.They made me tired a lot,and the morphine didn't agree with me.Then i tried the patch[fentnol...
... Hey Kissa, Although Morphine and Hydrocodone are in different classes, Hydro, oxycodone ... release is also what causes itching.
Although Morphine generaly does cause more drowsiness, that side effect ... does go away after a few days or weeks. Morphine also causes a histamine release that can prevent sleep ... and morphine breaks down into two metabolites, the M3g and the ... try to fall asleep.
There is an answer for the morphine twitch, The anti-parkinsons meds can be used, , I ... believe it was Niacin that I tried when on morphine and eventually after trying Miripex and Requip "parkinsons ... are better for headaches too, and some not so good. Morphine increases inner cranial pressure and can cause headaches ... a strong NMDA blocker and they have mixed it with morphine , called Morphidex to add the NMDA blocking ability ... to Morphine that it doesn't have on it's own.
Often patients ... where everyone responds differently, But with the morphine your testing, every bit of literature I have read ... about morphine speaks of the initial drowsiness and suggest the patient ... same level of relief. You may need considerably more morphine although Hydro and morphine are reletively equal in ... to stabalize longer on a base LA med.
I hope the morphine works, Give it a chance for the drowsiness to wear ... every 4 hours. A 20 mg Avinza only contains 20 mgs of morphine and that gets spread so thinover 24 hours I don't...
... than when on the short acting meds.
I have taken morphine before during/after various operations, I tolerate...
- cortazone shots info please. 20th July 2004
... possible to keep me comfortable, even to paying for a morphine pump and a special bed that I could not sleep with...
... possible to keep me comfortable, even to paying for a morphine pump and a special bed that I could not sleep with...
- Reasonable amount of time before changing/upping meds? 20th July 2004
... desire to reclassify them as a class 11. Same class as morphine , Demi, OxyC or the short acting class 11 meds Like...
... dependent on Hydrocdone just as quick as Oxycodone or morphine . Probably not what you wanted to hear. But the idea...
- Just Saw An Arrest At Trhe Pharmacy 17th July 2004
... still synthetic so you don't have the side effects of Morphine and codeine. Normally synthetics are handled easier...
... meth market, and as a manufacturer of Hydro, Oxy and morphine , Fent and Demi I wouldn't be surprised to see more...
- Really Awful News 17th July 2004
... non opiod calcium channel blocker much stronger than morphine . It is delivered by intrathecal pump as well and has...
- Ms Contin Mallinckrodt? 16th July 2004
... be asociated with methadose, There are a dozen LA morphine manufacturers, some that really sound generic like ... aai pharma, Morphine is not a new drug, the technogy used to time release...
... Nobody can get Endo any more. I found Mallinkroft morphine sulfate ER lasts longer and he is the better pain ... afford brand-name and not like Mallinkroft's generic morphine sulfate, you might consider Oramorph. Many people...
... substitute for methadone. I wonder if their generic morphine sulfate ER has gotten a bad rap, because of that. ... Mallinkrodt's product information listing for each size morphine ER pill. If you find the size till you are taking...
- Neurontin......addictive? 15th July 2004
... palm of your hand, a 4mg poill is equal to 32 mgs of Morphine and you could probably 600 of them in the smallest...
- Why do pain doc. worry about addiction if- 15th July 2004
... practice where their main function is to prescibe morphine and Dilaudid or OxyContin to CP patients. Each patient ... atmosphere. The strength difference between Hydro and morphine are 1:1 and it's 75-80% as strong as Oxycodone. Hydro...
- Drug testing for employment ???s 14th July 2004
... The opiates they look for are Heroin, Morphine and codeine, the 6 keto/synthetic opiates don't show ... to detect use of the opiates - heroin, codeine and morphine but not other opiates such as hydromorphone, hydrocodone...
- Question about the patch 13th July 2004
... .the patch did not work for me. I am now on 60mgs Morphine Sulfate every 6 hours and 10 mg MSIR for BT. I have...
... around the site where I put it on so I have switched to morphine recently. I really think the patch worked better,...
- Shoreline...i Need Some Quick Advice! 11th July 2004
... the normal conversion rate is 1:1.5 meaning 50% more morphine to equal oxy, So an Avinza dose of 240 should be ballpark ... want to replace that ith avnza add another 45 mgs of morphine ..
However, These conversions are just guides. Some ... people may find morphine more effective and some find OXy More efective.
... the differences in men and women when it comes to morphine . So women may need sligtly more morphine to obtain ... same equianelgesic dose when switching from Oxy to morphine .
Rememeber charts and figures are just guides, ... conversion charts says you need to equal the same dose in morphine .
Do not increase your dose without your docs permision...
... safe than sorry. Oxy is defffinitely stronger than morphine mg to mg, If your a woman it's even stroger because ... between 1:1 and 1:1.5 meaning Oxy is either as strong as morphine or 50% stronger, meaning if your not taking the same ... number of mgs of morphine that you did Oxy, your dose is lower and that's not ... was basically hoping you would respond better to the morphine and tryng to keep your dose down.
Having to make ... care, Dave
18o would not be too strong although morphine is more sedating where oxy seems to be more stimulating ... stronger pain releif, just more side effects with morphine ....
- were do i find the ligand chart? 11th July 2004
... standard conversion is 20mgs of Oxy is equal to 30 mgs of morphine 1:1.5 but not all charts are alike, some will have ... oxy and morphine 1:1 meaning the same in strength. Charts are just...
- How does one find a PM doctor?? 10th July 2004
... also receive "breakthrough" pain medicine Roxanol ( morphine sulfate) but found that medicinal marijuana is far...
... class narcotic's (Pain patches, oxycontin, pain pump, morphine sulfate...) some are class II and the DEA has certain...
- Please pray for my son 10th July 2004
... with his nurse and she said that they were giving him morphine injections for the pain and had just given him a bump...
... not getting real good control over it even with the morphine and now for some reason the treating NS decided to...
- Please Help! I need to change to cheaper meds 9th July 2004
... Methadone as a base and you can get 100 30mg generic morphine tablets for less than 30 bucks or 120 4mg generic...
- 20 Mgs Oxycontin not working 12 hours? 9th July 2004
... happen on Kadian or Avinza, I know that they are both morphine as well.
I am new to the la meds thing, my doctor...
... Hey Heather, Morphine is morphine , But fdifferent release systems will dump their meds ... opioids that are derived from opium, like Codeine, Morphine and Heroin do tend to have a harsher side effect profile ... Hydromorphone doesn't have all the side effects that Morphine has.
Some folks just take longer to accomadate ... up on that entire class of meds. There are alot of morphine products that got takemn off the board by not treatning ... become acommadated to the nausea and drowsiness of morphine .
Good luck, Dave...
... constant titration level of the same basic ingrediant ( morphine ). the patch is on for 3 days at a time and you replace...
- Quick Reply Needed! 8th July 2004
... patch , but for breakthrough pain they Rx Roxanol ( morphine sulfate) and marijuana is not an opiate and not addictave...
- Conversion Med Question 8th July 2004
... effective as you hoped. When he switched you to LA morphine , his conversion was right on the money, Most folks ... need about 50% more morphine than oxycodone, So If you were to have gone from 80mgs ... much took the same dose of meth or an equal amount of morphine for over 3 years untill I broke more harware which ... mgs a day. It doesn't sound like a huge amount but morphine delivered intrathecally is hundreds of times more ... potent than oral morphine
There is the fear of being looked at as an overprescri...
... from the patch can be bad. But bopping from Oxy to Morphine , Or Oxy to Duragesic or Oxy to meth should be pretty...
... because meth covers all the receptors Fantanyl does. Morphine to the patch is relatively smooth but from the patch ... back to morphine can be harder due to the sizee of the steps and Fentanyls ... Kappa activity that morphine doesn't have.
The problems folks have with disconituing...
- Strange questions about methadone 7th July 2004
... single dose comparison, most have it about 1:1 to morphine but that doesn't take into acount how much is going ... know it's strange but if you read the side effects of morphine it tells you up front that headaches can be a side...
- Another med question for Shoreline 7th July 2004
... increments to make it comparable to imediate release morphine .
The remaining 135 mgs devided into 6 Q4 hour doses ... the same serum level as taking 22.5 mgs of regular morphine every 4 hours. It doesn't sound like quite the large...
... confused on the conversion from my Duragesic to the morphine . I was using the 50 patches and she says that is equal ... to about 100 mgs oral morphine a day. The patch conversion chart I saw show the dose ... of morphine to be 135-224mgs per day. She's been pretty good about...
- Interesting article on Driving while on Meds 7th July 2004
... memory) following administration of an opioid (usually morphine or hydromorphone) when they had increased their opioid ... differences between 24 cancer patients on slow-release morphine (averaging 209 mg daily) and 25 cancer patients who ... long-term analgesic medication with stable doses of morphine does not have psychomotor effects of a kind that would ... opioids, with a mean daily dose equivalent of 90 mg of morphine . Because of consistent findings that benzodiazepines...
- opinions please 6th July 2004
... breakthrough pain along with 60mg of time release morphine (Avinza). When I was first given Vicodin to try, it...
- Worried need advice 4th July 2004
... methadone and made me to sleepy. So they asked me to try morphine . It did not work as well so they tried to use duragesic100 ... 48 hours. It worked better than the methadone and morphine . My skin breaks out really bad. I also got covers...
- shoreline,what do you think?[med switch] 3rd July 2004
... OxyContin. You would be better to switch to a long acting morphine product and use Rpxi as BT, this way you benefit from...
- I need answers!!!! 2nd July 2004
... surgery with the tolerance of someone taking 600 mgs of morphine daily just to function, the surgeon isn't comfortable ... I had nasty nurses that didn't get that 5mg of IV morphine wasn't going to touch my pain and any med was given ... about addiction, a lecture about addiction after a morphine pump was just implanted. To Late. Not that physical...
- Migraine Headaches 2nd July 2004
... I am allergic to demerol, so the ER goes with IV Morphine with bolus shots. They always start the IV as soon ... and oxy for my back, so they use very large doses of Morphine to knock out the headache. (I think I go before the...
- what else can i do to further manage my pain 1st July 2004
... tought how to deal with a patient that takes 600mgs of morphine a day and doesn't respond to the usual doses people...
- question about oxycodone. 1st July 2004
... tolerance in the catagory of a predictor of abuse.
Morphine and methadone are more sedating so patients are not ... patches would deliver. Actiq is so much stronger than morphine it's measured in micrograms because mg:mg it's hundreds ... of times more potent than morphine .but if your taking more than 1000mics of fentanyl ... you basically taking the equivelent of 9,0000 mgs of morphine per day. See how quick those numbers can go up simply ... opiate receptors so that 1+1 may equal more than 2. La Morphine as a base med and oxy as BT med is not a bad thing...
- Happy update on me! 30th June 2004
... Hey Hedy, Glad your getting relief, Morphine and codeine can be a little harsher on the tummy than...
- Shoreline ? 29th June 2004
... posture and movement.
So now, I am not sure if a LA morphine Rx which is what I am thinking of doing, is warrented...
... moderate doses are working well aside from side effects, Morphine would be no more dangerous to try than meth or OxyContin...
... posture and movement.
So now, I am not sure if a LA morphine Rx which is what I am thinking of doing, is warrented...
... RX meds to help you, you could find a doc to RX LA morphine , It's all a matter of does it help, what are the consequenc...
... and even then, no guareentee.
We'll see how the LA morphine does. They gave me Kadian (20mg). Should start this...
... mgs is a childs dose, You have to look at 20 mgs of morphine spread over 24 hours, 20 mgs would be the same as ... 3.3 mgs of oral morphine delivered every 4 hours, Only half of that crosses ... products a day would equate to at least that much morphine if not 50% more just to equal what you took last year ... nderstands each 20mg Kadian capsule only contains 20 mgs of morphine , IT doesn't sustain the serum level as if you have ... sedation too bothersome. Initial sedation is common with morphine , It's not a pro drug like Oxy. Pro opiates are synthetics ... likely knows your starting low, but if you haven't used morphine , better safe than sorry. If your pain is not so severe...
- Miralax to use with pain meds 28th June 2004
... to change , the next step is opiates, Hydro, oxy, morphine , patches or meth.
The synthetics like hydro and oxy ... to have less harsh side effects than opioids like morphine and codeine. Hydro or Oxy or even low dose Morphine...
- Shoreline - Any advice for a un happy camper ? 27th June 2004
... since I have not tried it. I was also thing of LA morphine . I hate to start another thing which I will just have...
- 2 Questions for Shoreline 25th June 2004
... applesauce because the release system is in the peelets of morphine , not the capsule that hold them, Gel caps disolve ... rates, some fast some take 18+ hours to release their morphine .
Choices of LA meds are OxyContin, now available ... in generic, Various forms of LA morphine , MSContin, Kadian, oramorph, Avinza, or a generic ... Hydromorphcontin, and LA codeine, "Codeinecontin"
Morphine tends to be more sedating initially then oxy but that ... you would be jumping up in strength switching to LA morphine , Oxy is actually stronger Mg to Mg by about 50%, Morphine ... strength.Hydrocodone is actually close to the strength of morphine mg to mg than oxycodone. Acording to equianelgesic ... at the 6th hour. 10mgs of oxy is equal to 15mgs of morphine .
Drug selection is based on the type of pain, previous ... individual patient's current physical condition.
Morphine . Of the sustained-release opioids, morphine is considered ... significant, however. In comparison to other opioids, morphine generally causes more nausea and pruritus. It also ... transport across the blood-brain barrier. In addition, morphine has several active metabolites whose levels can vary ... meperidine, was specifically designed to substitute for morphine in operative anesthesia. It is lipophilic and therefore ... that its potency is hundreds of times greater than morphine 's. Microgram amounts, administered by a transdermal ... pills. Like fentanyl, however, it is more potent than morphine and is associated with fewer adverse effects. A sustained ... that it has analgesic effects similar to those of morphine but that it has fewer side effects. None of hydromorphone...
- opiod contract 24th June 2004
... random UA's which are very flawed. Unless your taking Morphine , codeine or Heroin.
I look at it as just another ... dependence, to prevent some nuckle head that took morphine for 3 years then started doc shopping and ends up...
- Another Methadone Question 24th June 2004
... put a doc under the spot light more than prescribing morphine due to the media hype over a a couple hundred deaths...
- missunderstanding with the pharmacist. 23rd June 2004
... Meds like percocet "oxycodone products, Demerol, morphine ,methadone etc. The drugs that the DEA say have the...
- Question about Avinza 22nd June 2004
... Avinza is a 24 long acting morphine . It's relatively new. It is supposed to have an immediate...
- Breakthrough Meds? 22nd June 2004
... the gold standard to which all opiates are compared, Morphine , then break your daily dose into 2 single "BID" doses ... without causeing harm.
Other charts may use a factor. Morphine is the standard to which others are compared, the ... meaning Dilaudid is 8 times more potent mg to mg than morphine . Fentanyl is so potent it's measured in Micro grams ... ever found is a conversion from IV fentanyl to IV morphine . The conversion generally used is .01 of IV fentanyl ... is = to 10 mgs of IV morphine .Then you have to convert IV strength to oral strength ... . Different charts use different factors. IM morphine is 3 times stronger than oral and IV is 6 times stronger ... than oral.
10 mgs of IV morphine would be equal to 30 mgs of IM morphine or 60 mgs ... of oral morphine
I'm sure your right that your doc has no clue...
- lortab 20?\compound pharmacy 22nd June 2004
... Oxy, Oxy is simply 25% stronger, Hydro is equal to morphine 1:1, What would be the advantage of using high strength ... wouldn't be any easier than coming off 300 mgs of morphine or 200mgs of oxy. I don't see the gain other than ... advantage. You are taking an opiate equal in strength to morphine , so abuse, dependence and withdrawal will be equally ... way hydro makes you feel, apposed to oxy products or morphine products.
I would take a 10 mg perc over a norco...
... short half life and has a shorter duration than oxy or morphine , it works much better IV but You get the raised eyebrow...
... used, It has a longer half life and duration than morphine and Dilaudid. Howevr it's still name brand only and...
- MS Contin 18th June 2004
... med is MSIR which is an instant release version of Morphine Sulfate. I take up to 3 30 mg MSIR daily.
the advantage...
... taking several months ago. My question is, how is the Morphine released into your system? After I take a pill, I...
