- whats going on in fla.read this shore! 17th June 2004
... never had the need for high dose meds and lkely thinks morphine should still only be used in hospice. The pain closer...
- Question for Shore on IM/SC meds 16th June 2004
... slightly deeper.
A friend in canada has been using IM morphine for years. You should also add "Centerwatch" to your ... to go for the advanced testing like GC-MS or LC-MS. Morphine , codeine and heroin are easily detected where synthetics...
... would be better. Even better would be the pump with Morphine or Fentanyl. I think Shore mentioned this earlier...
- Why Oxycontin would not work 16th June 2004
... respond to OxyCodone well, like some don't respond to morphine or demerol as well. We all have a med that suits our ... t belive we have the will power to let a bottle of morphine or Dilaudid sit in the cabinet and only be used for...
... does now. So he said have you ever tried any of the morphine drugs I said no. He said I will be right back. He...
... in pain for 4 hours postop til they finally got a morphine pump).....request my records!!!!!! I can prove it...
- Hey Shoreline, question about methadone and driving 12th June 2004
... metabolites from opioids, products derived from opium, Morphine , Heroin and codeine, however more advanced tests can...
... 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 ... info.
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...
- Codeine Question: 11th June 2004
... surgeon wouldn't know what your option are, Plain morphine MSIR, Liquid versions of morphine and oxy and dilaudid ... Roxicodone 5mg 15mg and 30 mg, Oxyfast is liquid oxycodone, Morphine in 15mg and 30 mg and liquid form. There is no apap...
- new to methadone 11th June 2004
... pain relief.
Meth is 5-10 times more potent than morphine where Hydro is equal in strength to morphine. Meth...
- shore i need some advice on meds 11th June 2004
... nearly as effective, It's half life is shorter than morphine and duration was limeted to bearly 3 hours regardless ... expensive especially if you take 4 a day. Short acting morphine is just as cheap as generic Dilauadid, I get 100 ... from 90 bucks to 60 bucks.
If you tolerate the LA morphine , using MSIR "generic" for BT would seem to make sense...
... nearly as effective, It's half life is shorter than morphine and duration was limited to barely 3 hours regardless ... expensive especially if you take 4 a day. Short acting morphine is just as cheap as generic Dilauadid, I get 100 ... Visceral, Somatic or Neuro
If you tolerate the LA morphine , using MSIR "generic" for BT would seem to make sense...
... like a rock when I took meth but rebounded once on morphine . I wish I could answer the question for you but most ... The dose my pump is presently set at is .1mgs of morphine deleivered per hour or 1/10th of a ML. It doesn't...
- Avinza 10th June 2004
... would be roughly the same as taking 10 mgs of regular morphine every 4 hours.
60mgs of MSContin 3 times a day ... sustain the same serum level as if you took 30 mgs of morphine every 4 hours which would be equivelent to your present ... don't want to predict it's going to be too weak.
Morphine has a different mechanism of action, causes more euphoria ... sense of feeling well when your not is part of why morphine works. If your doc is willing to titrate the dose ... charts are just guides, Most conversion from Oxy to morphine are 1:1 or 1:1.5 meaning you need 50% more morphine ... chance to work at the right dose. Most people also find morphine very sedating at the initiation of therapy, but you ... untill you at least reach a 1:1 ratio from oxy to morphine and then fine tune it. Titration is never fun, they...
... it's going to continue to release small amounts of morphine over the next 24 hours.
Good luck, Dave...
... with my doc and i do not feel that changing me to morphine is going to be beneficial. i am bipolar 2, so depression...
... some problems with the "stigma" attached to taking Morphine , but I seem to be better, and hopefully, as Shoreline...
- long term pain management? 10th June 2004
... The second lumbar fusion failed...I had to have the morphine pump put in to control the pain.
Please understand...
... The second lumbar fusion failed...I had to have the morphine pump put in to control the pain.
Please understand...
- SHORELINE: How Are You? 9th June 2004
... any withdrawal from the change from meth to to IT morphine . I've gone from 150 mgs a day to 30 in less than a...
- Shore or anybody else advise on la meds please! 9th June 2004
... from now on.
She has changed my meds and added morphine sulfate er 15 mgs 2 times a day and reduced my vicodin...
... Hi carol,
I see that you have a morphine pump. Is the headaches and nausea common wth morphine...
- Just prescribed MS Contin...what to expect? 9th June 2004
... Hi Trina,
I too just got prescribed 15 mg's of morphine sulfate er 2 times a day as well. I think that it ... I was up to a 8 after work even with the 15 mgs of morphine and a vicodin. I ttook over an hour to get it domn...
- Ultram, what is it. 8th June 2004
... works ok...not great but ok. I have a bad reaction to Morphine and codine, so my options are limited.
How does...
- question about Mscontin 6th June 2004
... switched from 360 mgs a day of oxycontin to 300 mgs of morphine , which according to the conversion charts (and personal...
- Shoreline-Where can I get some solid, advanced medical info on different pain meds? 6th June 2004
... orange book and do a querry on a specific drug like morphine , the orange book will tell you every manufacturer...
- Methadone and OxyIR 5th June 2004
... the battlefield when there was a severe shortage of morphine due to embargos of medical supplies. So, it truly ... Yes, I can feel it in me at times, but not like the morphine or oxycontin. The pain is controlled, and I'm not...
- Back from the hospital 4th June 2004
... understand how high my tolerance is. the gave me 5mgs of morphine in recovery and the another 5 and didn't understand ... sever bt pain and there giving me child size doses of morphine , then said they couldnt give me more but i would be...
... dr over a period of weeks had the pump going with morphine but still had me take my Oxy, decreasing it every...
- Night jerks caused by opiates? 2nd June 2004
... ways to manage the herky jerks caused by Meth and morphine . I'm not sure what part of meth actually causes the ... jerking, but with morphine it happens from one of the two metabolites morphine ... breaks down into. It's the M6G metabolite from morphine , Bt the treatment options are the same.
They treat...
... If I understand all of it correctly, Methadone and Morphine are the two big problem causers. I assume that includes ... all forms of LA Morphine ? I have taken Oxy and Fentenyl (patch), both with...
- A Word of Caution to Pain Pumpsters 1st June 2004
... information, Dilaudid is Hydromorphone, synthetic morphine about 8 times stronger than regular morphine.
Heroin ... the UK as a pain med, It's chemical name is Diacetel morphine . Fentanyl is a completely different class of opiates ... and is hundreds of times more potent than morphine or dilaudid and measured in micrograms.
The reason ... Fentanyl are completely synthetic opiates where Heroin, Morphine and Codeine are opioids previously derived from the ... thybain extract from opium to manufacture Heroin, morphine , codeine, and some of the synthetics but they figured ... Dilaudid. 1 mg of fentanyl is equal to about 900 mgs of morphine , that's why it's measured in micrograms.The fentanyls ... Heroin. Dilaudid is only 8 times more potent than morphine and is compared mg to mg, not micro gram to mg.
... The drug you use is much more potent than Heroin, Morphine or Diluadid but measured in micrograms to alllow a...
- My 6 year olds pain meds 1st June 2004
... they are in phase 3 clinical trials for intrathecal morphine pumps. It's 10,000 times more potent than morphine...
... flailing and they would have to give him a shot of morphine .....then he would sleep and thankfully the cycle broke...
- morphine? 30th May 2004
... 4.5/0.38/325 mg 100s CII= Percodan
As far as morphine goes, They make short acting pills in 15mg and 30 ... been from the anesthesia as much as it could from the morphine .
IV morphine is also going to be much more potent ... than oral morphine and has a much faster onset than oral morphine. Oral ... morphine with a slower onset than IV may resolve the nausea ... problem. The one time I had morphine PCA I got sick but I do fine with oral morphine. It ... becaue I do fine with oral long acting and short acting morphine . Side effects like nausea do get better as you become ... impacted or constipated. All opiates do this, not just morphine .
The Duragesic patch doesn't use morphine, It uses ... a synthetic opiate hundreds of times stronger than morphine but measured in Micro grams 1/1000th of a mg or one ... anyone will respond to any opiate. All 3 drugs, Oxy, morphine and Fentanyl are all different classes of opiates ... But simply throwing up after surgery while given morphine for pain doesn't mean you couldn't handle oral morphine ... or long acting oral morphine . The long acting meds have a smoother onset than the ... effect if you actually experience nausea from oral morphine . Oral morphine is actually weaker than oxycodone and ... Fentanyl, they just use morphine as the gold standard to compare other opiates strength...
- Help! I'm new here and just started oxycodone 30th May 2004
... back fully. the only other ones i've read up on are morphine , percocet, demerol, etc but i think these are all...
... don't get relief from oxy you may respond better to morphine which comes in short acting and long acting or you ... Levorphanol does. Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine , Fentanyl is hundreds of times morte potent than morphine ... Hydrocodne doesn't mean you will become tolerant to morphine , what he is describng is a theory called cross tolerance ... on....I've met folks that take more than 2000mgs of morphine per day, that mix 3 long acting opiates to obtain ... presently take 150 mgs of methadone a day plus I have 30mg morphine tablets for break through pain when the meth is not ... working as well. One 30mg morphine tablet is equal to 3 10mg Hydrocodone tablets and ... detox. It's a pure opiate 5-10 times more potent than Morphine and stays in your system for days so each dose build ... opiates without apap do no internal organ damage, morphine or pure oxycodone or meth do no internmal organ damage ... in my spine.
I was taking 600 mgs of Long acting morphine untill I lost my insurance and switched back to methadone ... be the answer for me.
I'm having an Intrathecal morphine pump implanted next week. It can deliver Morphine ... trials for IT pump use, It's 10,000 times stronger than morphine and comes from cone snails, It's not an opiate, doesn...
- HELP - Now what do I do? 28th May 2004
... compared to coming off 60 mgs of OxyContin or 90 mgs of morphine that you body has become acustomed to having around...
... get passed the withdrawal of several hundred mfgs of morphine or OxyContin or methadone a day. I know there is not...
... afraid of acupuncture needles.
I have to go get a morphine pump implanted, I know I'll go through methadone withdrawal...
- Shoreline...Zanaflex and Soma. 27th May 2004
... dislocate hips. They implant the same pump for IT morphine and use only Baclofin to treat the spasticity of MS...
- What really is a 30 day contract? 27th May 2004
... saying I didn't know I would become dependnent on morphine , or the doc abandonded me simply because I ran out...
- Caught in a Cross Fire.. 26th May 2004
... aditional pain.
medtronics is the manufacturer of the morphine pump. They can give you alist of docs certified to...
... [SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]I agree that the morphine pump might be the best way to go. No more meds by...
- Despair 26th May 2004
... have been there and know how you feel. Until I got my morphine pump I was in continuous pain from the neck on down...
... channel blocker which is thousands time more potent than morphine . It was found to be made synthetically from austrailian...
... have been there and know how you feel. Until I got my morphine pump I was in continuous pain from the neck on down...
... regiman of meds.
My miracle drug has been long acting morphine and roxicodone for BT pain.
I had tried pretty much ... all the others and was hesitant to try the morphine ..because i didnt react well to short acting morphine...
- Question for Shoreline and Others 25th May 2004
... than methadone), I decided to opt for the intrathecal morphine pump. It has been a life saver for me. Maybe your...
... awkward? For some reason my husband has a fear of the morphine pump. What kind of pain relief do you get? I appriciate...
... pressure of at T12/L1 So I'm having the Intrathecal morphine pump implanted after a recent succesful trial.
... the bed out of my den. Some folks respond better to morphine , some better to Fentanyl in the Duragesic patch and ... t experience any withdrawal switching from oxy to morphine , methadone levodromoran or Fentanyl.
and Methadone ... have unique properties and bind to receptors that morphine , dlilaudid, oxy and Hydrocodone don't even touch. ... years if he's already reached the docs limits.
Morphine would probably be the next logical step just because ... docs are more comfy prescribing morphine . If he's unable to obtain relief with morphine then ... increase the NMDA blocking ability to meth or add it to morphine .
What made the biggest difference in my care 4...
... I have been on opiates for 4-5 years now 600mgs of morphine to me wouldn't impair me as much as a couple percocet ... to an opiate naive person.
600 mgs was my morphine dose before I switched back to meth for financial ... snail toxin "Prialt" is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and non addicting and non opiate. It's in Phase 111...
... 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...
- shoreline thank you 25th May 2004
... going that direction. 10,00 times more potent than morphine , non opiate and no dependence ceratinly sounds good ... deliver the meds directly to the source of pain and IT morphine "intrthecal" is 300 times more potent than oral morphine ... or put any preservative free opiate into the pump, Morphine , Dilaudid, Fentanyl, Suffentany, affentanyl and other ... 3mg Buprenex being approximately equivalent to 10 mg morphine sulfate in analgesic and respiratory depressant effects ... hours in adults.
Buprenorphine, in common with morphine and other phenolic opioid analgesics, is metabolized ... behaves very much like classical µ agonists such as morphine . One unusual property of Buprenex observed in in vitro ... could account for its longer duration of action than morphine , the unpredictability of its reversal by opioid antagonists ... to be equipotent with naloxone as an antagonist of morphine in the mouse tail flick test.
Cardiovascular Effects ... usual conditions of use in adults, both Buprenex and morphine show similar dose-related respiratory depressant effects ... in an equivalent manner to an equianalgesic dose of morphine (10mg). (See WARNINGS .)
INDICATIONS AND USAGE...
- Looking for advice and alternatives to the drugs and pain! 25th May 2004
... ask you this, if you were shot and a doctor offered morphine , would you not be strong by taking it? If you were...
... lungs are not cancerous. By the way, my dad did take morphine during his last bout with cancer. The only reason...
... surgery and I went to doc today about an Intrathecal morphine pump. He thought I was there to see what he could ... other therapies including intrathecally delivered morphine . In the double-blind, placebo-controlled study, patients...
... future includes these narcotics. I even tried the morphine pump which didn't work the first time, but I plan...
... don't think has been mentioned....the intrathecal morphine pump. It certainly gives better pain relief without ... information about it, please start a new post with morphine pump in the title and I will try to answer your questions...
- hey s gibson are you ok 25th May 2004
... just a matter of time before my doctor insists on the morphine pump because he doesn't want to increase my medicine...
- member of AA: to tell or not? 24th May 2004
... compliance to show her that I could let a bottle of morphine sit on the shelf untill it was time for a dose or...
- Oxycontin/generic/brand/options?? 23rd May 2004
... med. Like OxyContin or the generic with short acting morphine "MSIR" as a BT med would give you a broader range...
... med. Like OxyContin or the generic with short acting morphine "MSIR" as a BT med would give you a broader range...
... MSContin so mosyt docs don't have a problem prescribing morphine 3 or 4 times a day. MSContin is way overpriced and ... little stronger so you may actually take more mgs of morphine to get the same releif. MSContin is even more expensive ... than Kadian, the 12-24 hour morphine prep, It's much nwer but has a much higher tech abuse ... 60 dollar a month script for meth. The only Generic morphine prep I would avoid is the new one MellenKrodt just ... are about a dozen other manufacturers of Long acting morphine . . Personally if your insurance would cover Kadian ... that would be my choice of long acting morphine .
What have you heard negative abpout the generic ... transfer of meds.Everyone responds differently but morphine can definitely be more sedating initially than oxy...
... MSContin so mosyt docs don't have a problem prescribing morphine 3 or 4 times a day. MSContin is way overpriced and ... little stronger so you may actually take more mgs of morphine to get the same releif. MSContin is even more expensive ... than Kadian, the 12-24 hour morphine prep, It's much nwer but has a much higher tech abuse ... 60 dollar a month script for meth. The only Generic morphine prep I would avoid is the new one MellenKrodt just ... are about a dozen other manufacturers of Long acting morphine . . Personally if your insurance would cover Kadian ... that would be my choice of long acting morphine .
What have you heard negative about the generic ... transfer of meds.Everyone responds differently but morphine can definitely be more sedating initially than oxy...
... med. Like OxyContin or the generic with short acting morphine "MSIR" as a BT med would give you a broader range...
- Meth question for shoreline 22nd May 2004
... take 24/7 you will become dependent on. Whether it's morphine , methadone, OxyContion or Durageisic.
To me withdrawal ... someone is going through withdrawal, whether it's morphine , meth, usually what they are presently experienceing ... last nearly as long. The full prescribing info on Morphine says withdrawal symptoms from morphine could last ... you will become dependent. So whether it's meth or morphine or Oxy it really won't matter. Is met worse if it ... bring up your concerns and if you want to try Oxy or a morphine prep first, by all means you should be allowed to ... one of those. The transition ffrom Oxy to meth or morphine to meth is easy, It's the reverse that gets hairy ... . Moving from meth to morphine , oxy or fentanyl is tough because meth is such a unique ... to switch away from. It's binds to receptors that morphine and Oxy don't touch. The steps down are rather large...
- Methadone: to do or not ? 22nd May 2004
... Hey Ken, Why not give one of the long acting morphine preps a try before you go to meth if you are this ... concerned. If morphine doesn't work, you know there is a med out there much ... cheaper and 5-10 times stronger than morphine .
Personally I think Kadian has the best release ... system, but I have also taken the generic version or Morphine SR 3 times a day and did fine with the Endo Generic ... . MellenKrodt now makes a generic version of LA morphine and I have already heard bad stories about it's quality ... there are at least a dozen manufactures of generic LA morphine . Oramorph also uses a different release than MSContin ... . So you have plenty of choices of LA morphine . If you haven't tried morphine it would make sense ... bucks worth of meth takes about 1400 bucks worth of LA morphine to replace. Of course you wouldn't need that large ... have you discontinued. Have you had to DC OxyC or Morphine or Fentanyl, can you compare your experience with ... discontinued 200-300 mgs of Oxy or 400-600 mgs of morphine cold turkey or on a terible conversion and know that ... 10 mgs of meth was harder than 600 mgs of morphine ? It's kind of like trying to tell someone how much ... It does seem like to ease your own mind, give LA morphine a shot. It comes in strengths from 15mgs up to 200 ... sizes in between.Some last 8 hours some last 12-24. Morphine is certainly more sedating than oxy but all the literature ... the drowsiness went away, My head was very clear on morphine .
Sound fair Ken, Give LA morphine a shot? If it...
- Life after Diverticulitus 21st May 2004
... to look at. It is a implantable pump usually with morphine but can be fentanyl as well.
- Ken...
- question for shoreline? 21st May 2004
... info. The only difference between meth withdrawal and morphine withdrawal when going cold turkey is how long the...
... info. The only difference between meth withdrawal and morphine withdrawal when going cold turkey is how long the...
- Advice Needed on Clonazepam 21st May 2004
... opiates can cause restless leg syndrome particularly morphine and methadone and it's the most effective treatement...
- Farmboy, Re: Methadone withdrawal 20th May 2004
... properties of meth is levor phanol. Meth has properties morphine , Oxy and Fentanyl don't have. So what you experience ... charts you see will tell you meth is roughly equal to morphine in strength, However that only takes into account ... suggest it's between 5 and 10 times stronger than morphine once you factor in the buildup from the long half ... I were to taper off meth as they increased the IT morphine at the same rate your going it would take a year and...
... withdrawal going through the transition from meth to IT morphine even though IT meds are 300 times stronger than oral ... to last months. I've DC 120 mgs in cold switches to morphine , to Duragesic and back to morphine and still went ... articles estimate that meth is 5-10 times stronger than morphine and Oxy is stronger than morph. See what I mean about ... experience withdrawal?
When I switch from meth to morphine I have always used the same conversion and 600mgs...
... the worst experience ever, folks withdrawing from morphine will think morphine is the worst or Valium and Klonopin ... time I was extremely depressed that it took that much morphine and I was still miserable. That's what made me decide ... able to stay at the same dose the entire time I took morphine , a little over a year.
MY PM clinic now uses a ... was patented in 72, and MSContion came out in 84. Morphine been around for 300 years so there is no convincing...
... day and they added a second pack, but I switched to morphine before I started using the second pack and the next ... little boost from such high levels when I switched to morphine and didn't need the extra. It's an alcohol based topical...
- davearnp re:avinza 19th May 2004
... prescribe it and is it any different than any other la morphine ?...
... Avinza is a drug I use, however of the long acting Morphine compounds, I typically prefer Kadian.
It's been...
... To convert from another brand of oral time released Morphine , the total dose is 1:1. If your taking 180mg q/day...
- Any Ideas?? 19th May 2004
... Kadian as MS Contin, as they are both a time released Morphine . The difference is Kadian has a better delivery system...
- Need Advise!!!!!!!!!!!!!please 19th May 2004
... longer acting med like KAdian or Avinza "both are 12-24 morphine preps, there is no question about them lasting 12 ... easier to switch to Kadian or Avinza "longer acting morphine " that will last 12 hours without a doubt. Some folks...
- BT meds 18th May 2004
... are used too.
Say your taking OxyContin, MSIR " morphine Instant release," comes in generic 15 and 30 mg tablets ... Capsules. But 100 30mg generic tabs costs about 30 bucks. Morphine isn't quite as strong as oxy but a 15mg MSIR should...
- Hey Shore, can I trouble you with another question? 17th May 2004
... would come up with 60 mgs of oxycodone = 90mgs of morphine . So he's pretty darn close, I don't think they make ... little off so it's all in how you talk to him. But morphine may have been the best drug pain wise for you so you ... may require a higher dose of morphine . Try not to live and die by a chart although he is...
... conversion Purdue recomends is .5 when coming from morphine which is much less generous than your doc did. It ... the synthetic opiates rather than the opioids like morphine and codeine as far as stomache and GI symptoms.
Take...
- Oxy tolerance question 16th May 2004
... doesn't mean you would rapidly accomadate to a LA morphine product or meth or even Duragesic.
There are other ... effects that some of the other opiates have. Although morphine is initially more sedating you do become acommadated ... to have tables that told docs what a lethal dose of morphine or Oxy was when found in the blood stream. But they...
... what I did. I was tried on Duragesic, Avinza (24 hr morphine ), Methadone and the morphine pain pump (gonna try...
- Whats more effective 13th May 2004
... Can any of you tell me which seems more effective Morphine or Dilatad (sp)
My Dr. gave me morphine but it doesnt...
... when given orally. It is considerably stronger than morphine mg to mg, But that's why dialuuadid comes in smaller ... impressive when taken oraly, but works great PCA, Oral morphine , is also the least effective way to take morphine ...
Are you talking about a BT med , what strength morphine have you tried? the 15 and 30 mgs pills aren't limited ... have the tolerance to handle that large of a dose of morphine . If you don't, you need to work slowly up in strength...
... like crazy. I really dont know what to take. And the morphine only 15 mg knocks me on my Booty, but doesnt relieve...
... work better then on your pain. I have tried shots of morphine in the ER and morphine will not touch my HA pain but...
... but oxy tends to be less sedating. But if you took morphine more freqwqqqqqqqquently you woul become used to the ... about sedation but it's rarely a reason to discontinue morphine because it does get better after a week of continued ... to guide him is to acurately describe the symptoms morphine cause and the pain you experience. Pain diary's are ... has a longer half life and actually last longer than morphine and diluadid and it's more stimulating. Itching is ... pain or as PRN medication. The conversion from Oxy to morphine is 1:1.5 meanng 15mgs of Oxycodone s 50% stronger ... than morphine plus it'snot as sedating. He has lots of choices...
... mean anything. Nor should it.
Now... as far as Morphine -vs- Dilaudid. When given at equal doses, Dilaudid ... Inital studies of Dilaudid say it's 8-10x stronger than Morphine , but newer studies are saying it may be as much as ... medicine. What I mean is this. If I give you 10mg of IV Morphine , I'm going to need to give 30mg of MSIR for that to ... Methadone.
If, in the end you decide to go with oral Morphine , please let me encourage you to have your practitioner...
... of back pain so i decided to be brave and use the morphine . Will first of all it did nothing for the pain. I ... to go in to the Dr. I was told I was intollerent to morphine . The Doc on call gave me Dilauded. It worked stopped ... (which i am convinced were actually caused by the morphine ) I seemed to tollerate it ok. Although nothing helped...
- Slipped Disk C5-6 13th May 2004
... This is after trying many other pain meds and even a morphine pain pump (I am eventually going to try the pain pump ... also been tried on the Duragesic patch, Avinza (24 hr morphine ), Methadone, etc. With the exception of the Methadone...
- Anybody Have Experience in this? 13th May 2004
... offered no relief at all. Then in May, 2004, I had a morphine pump put in. It caused me such illness and reaction...
- 3 pain meds??? 12th May 2004
... the doseage changes or the amount of meth and and morphine added. The purpose of combining opiates is to hit ... happy to convert it all into one basic drug "like morphine " that may make his dosage easier to understand. I ... highly functional people in the 1500 -2000 mgs of morphine per day range. I know a Vet that takes 160mgs of methadone...
... which is exceptionally hard to deal with.
But the morphine , 40 mgs of methadone and Norco or lortab for BT pain ... breaks through your base dose of long acting meds. Morphine is initially more sedating than oxy so he may have ... you a general idea, meth is 5-10 times stronger than morphine when you factor in the very long half life, 30+ hours ... doseage of meth is about 1/5 of mine and I use more BT morphine than he uses long acting.
I crushed my spine and...
- Thanks from StarfieldJane 12th May 2004
... less dangerous than snorting the nice clean crushed morphine or putting it in a drink.
If aplessauce makes you ... recomend plain or cinnimon or a specific brand to crush morphine into?...
... congestive heart failure they won't prescribe much morphine . So, I don't know but I'm going to give it a try....
... opiates, injections, ablations, etc. Even had the morphine pain pump implanted but that had to come out. I will ... just wondering though if perhaps even the 30mgs of morphine is enough for you? If you have to rely on breakthru ... with the others that you need to give the increased morphine time and then hopefully you will find great pain relief ... from it. Unfortunately for me oral morphine did not control my pain, even when the dr. put me ... on Avinza (24 hr) morphine . But alot of people seem to like it for pain control...
- MSContin advice needed 12th May 2004
... you dropped the Lortab now your going to take extra morphine and run out of that early. You know they won't fill ... the time release meds is because instead of 15mgs of morphine being released over 8-12 hours what you did was dump ... 30 mgs of morphine into your system imedietely. You quadroupled your ... 4 hours. You will run out and the withdrawal from morphine will be worse than having to do without the Vikes...
... Drug-Drug
APAP/dichloralphenazone/isometheptene and morphine
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory ... Drug-Drug
APAP/dichloralphenazone/isometheptene and morphine
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory ... Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
sertraline and morphine
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory ... Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
sertraline and morphine
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory ... recommended.
Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
morphine and nortriptyline
MONITOR: Central nervous system...
... Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
morphine and zonisamide
MONITOR: Central nervous system ... activities.
Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
morphine and tramadol
GENERALLY AVOID: Tramadol may reinitiate ... depression.
Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
morphine and nortriptyline
MONITOR: Central nervous system ... activities.
Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
morphine and zonisamide
MONITOR: Central nervous system ... activities.
Moderate Interaction -- Drug-Drug
morphine and tramadol
GENERALLY AVOID: Tramadol may reinitiate...
- Shore - what can I expect ? 9th May 2004
... relief from Oxy, I did much better on long acting morphine , Less side effects, better relief, and no problem ... well for pain , it just has more side effects than morphine , for me.
My group of docs won't even prescribe ... was nice enough to fund that database.
Although morphine is a little more sedating most folks do become accomadated ... that works best, But if you haven't tried any of the morphine products I wouldn't fight it. You ceratinly have a...
- Oxycontin dosage strength question 4th May 2004
... Kadian where twice a day works fine. Kadian is LA morphine 12-24 hours. MSContin or the generic versions of LA ... morphine are usually dosed 3 times a day and that would prevent ... describe the problem if the problem is duration.
Morphine is a little more sedatng but you do get used to it ... It's not like your stepping up in drug strength. Morphine is just the gold standard to which others are compared ... . Oxy is actually about 50% stronger mg:mg than Morphine so don't let the mental thing about morphine bother...
... patient. Someone that hasn't taken more than 100 mgs of morphine or 75 mgs of Oxy per day.
This is the chart Jansen ... cross tolerance. Meaning if your tolerant to a dose of morphine , you would be tolerant to the equal dose of any narcotic ... s supposed to be equivelent in strength, mg:mg to morphine . 10 mgs of oral morphine just wouldn't be an effective ... strong.
Most folks have taken Hydro or Oxy or even Morphine or Dilaudid for psost surgical pain. But Fentanyl ... just an entirely diffferent class of opiates than morphine or the other synthetics like Hydro,Oxy ,and Hydromorphone...
- Oxycontin vs MScontin 4th May 2004
... That's great your doing so well on a lesser dose of Morphine . That's why I hate to pass along the equienalgesic ... effective and much cheaper.
The newer long acting morphine products are lasting longer. Kadian is a true 12-24 ... seee too many folks giving up on The longer acting morphine prepes because docs are not comfortably properly titrating ... methadone is an opton, and costs about 1/20 of what LA morphine costs and is generally more effective on Neuropathic ... trials that have NMDA blocking agents combined with morphine and Fentanyl.Like Morphidex.
There is a Sufentanyl ... physical dependnece and is 1000X more potent than morphine . THe intrathecal pump may be an option down the road ...
There really is a lot going on more than just morphine which is 300 years old an Oxy which is 50.
Try ... potential for dependence and are much stronger than morphine . And many non opiate methods that can enhance or help ... only other option is meth. If you respond well to Morphine there is no reason they can't keep up with any tolerance ... There are folks that take several thousand mgs of morphine per day very safely with minimal side effects.
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- Question: Oxycodone for anxiety/depression 2nd May 2004
... have made her day better or perhaps some valium or morphine , why feel anything with the drugs we have available ... offers no cure. Give any depressed person a shot of morphine or alcohol and they will feel better , right up untill...
... originally developed as a "non-addictive" alternative to morphine for the treatment of respiratory diseases such as...
- Shoreline I ask PM Friday 1st May 2004
... Shoreline I went to get my morphine pump refilled on Friday and I ask PM doctor if the ... morphine or marcaine could be causing the problem with the ... about these problems who understand the working of the morphine pump. Thanks again geifer...
- hydromorphone and percocet...Difference??? 30th April 2004
... oral oxycodone converts roughly into 15 mg's of oral morphine . However the conversion rate can vary from person ... but in general oxy is about 50% stronger than oral morphine . Hydromorphone, on the other hand, is the active ... secondary active ingredients. Hydromorphone, like morphine , and unlike oxycodone, is available both orally and ... dromorphone is approximatly six times more potent than oral morphine , and approx. 4-6 times stronger than oxycodone. However...
- Pain Management and Addison's Disease 29th April 2004
... pain management for the last two years.
I take 30mg Morphine SR 3 times daily and Morphine 30mg IR 4 times daily ... is that the medical information that comes with the Morphine indicates that it should not be used by individuals...
- Time released morphine pills 28th April 2004
... Oxycodone is OxyContin.
There are several Time released morphine preps on the market. The first was MSContin. It releases ... version 3 times a day. Kadian was the first 24 hour morphine to come out about 3 years ago. It's a smooth steady ... understands that a 100 mg Kadian only contains 100mgs of morphine . Spread that over 24 hours and it's something like ... MSIR every 4 hours , which isn't a large dose of oral morphine .
Even though Kadian is newer, has a better release ... version of a 24 hour morphne product. A newer 24 hour morphine hit the market last year called Avinza.
I really ... comparison between the two. Avinza has an initial burst of morphine that Kadian doesn't but if the goal is to maintain ... it.
Oxycodone tends to be more stimulating than morphine and a little stronger mg to mg so don't think you ... stepped up to the big guns because now you are taking morphine . Morphine is just the gold standard to which other ... will give you an idea of how other meds compare to morphine .
[url]http://www.globalrph.com/narcotic.htm[/url ... the get go.
OxyCodone is actually styronger than morphine , the average conversion is 1:1.5 meaning 20mgs of ... Oxy is equal to 30mgs of morphine. Morphine is more sedating so don't be shocked if you sleep ... alot the first few days. It's very common with morphine and not a reason to discontinue morphine if the only...
... L13, What did you read about Avinza being dangerous. Morphine is morphine. Whether it's Kadian, Avinza, MSContin ... to internal organs, Tylenol does more damage than morphine . Yes you will become dependent on morphine after you ... There is nothing positive about addiction and if using morphine improves the quality of life and you can't function ... really need them. Can someone not live without taking morphine around the clock and continue to function or do the ... his patient as long as your physically dependent on morphine . If it's the only thing a patient thinks will work ... people can't really complain about being dependent on morphine .
Morphine will work, But If you go directly from ... lortab so he refers you to PM who prescribes long actng morphine because the patient has told the doc they have no ... feeling better everyone over the age of 40 would be on Morphine to feel better and mask the aches and pains of growing ... methods to manage pain have not worked.
Long acting morphine isn't something you keep around for a bad day and ... first 2 surgeries ion 93 and 96 and Duragesic and morphine was only used on cancer patients when my pain began ... script.
Please cut and paste what you read about morphine being a very dangeropus drug. Honsetly that sounds...
... different opiates or use adjunct meds properly. But morphine is not a dangerous drug in the hands of a true chronic ... their docs instructions.
If you put that same morphine into the hands of recreational drug user, then yes ... , they can kill themselves by mixing morphine with other CNS depressants and alcohol.
I would...
... what they're about.
As far as the gent with the SR Morphine , I was on it for a short while, didn't really do very...
- Methadone Question For Shoreline 26th April 2004
... of methadone in the country.They also produce bulk morphine , bulk Hydrocodone, and bulk Oxycodone. How each manufacture...
... Mellencrodt also recently came out with a version of LA morphine and were happy to anounce their product release and...
... the high of other opiates but whether you use meth, morphine OxyC0ontin, hydrocodone on a daily basis you do become ... manage true chronic life changing pain.
Diacetel morphine "heroin " is still used as a pain med in the UK and ... dependence than 200 mgs of Oxycontin or 300 mgs of morphine , 300 mgs of Hydrocodone or a 100UGH Fentanyl patch ... opiates. If you need meth than use it, If you need morphine than use it. If you find a cure and that relieves...
- "Hi" from an old friend:) 23rd April 2004
... to OxyC??? There are no other choices. Long acting morphine , methadone, Duragegesic, combining opiates, adding...
... various other meds for a year: duragesic, avinza, morphine , methadone. Then this year I went back on the oxy...
- Shoreline.... oh shoreline.... 19th April 2004
... metabolism, I did read something to that effect about morphine . I have gained 40 pounds since my last surgery. I...
- got the "official word" today... 18th April 2004
... increase your dose. Compliance is compliance whether it's morphine or Zanaflex.
Good luck, Dave...
- Mepergan fortis?? 17th April 2004
... Dave
300mgs of oral demi is equaL 30 mgs of oral morphine or 20 mgs of oxycodone....
... girl, If your allergic to the opium derrivatives like Morphine and Codeine but do OK on Demi, you should also do...
- ms contin 17th April 2004
... titrating and trying to find an effective dose of morphine and still find that it doesn't help with nerve pain ... neuropathic, your more likely to respond better to meth.
Morphine is also very sedating so you have to accomadate to ... about meth by prescribing it to you.
If you go the morphine route expect initial sedation, people sweat on morphine ... to meth. But you may sleep quite a bit intially on morphine , You also have to let that pass and get used to that...
- Help - surgery! 15th April 2004
... something that will take care of the pain...maybe IV morphine . Lots of things he can use to control the post op...
... laminectomy January 26th. Before surgery, I was taking 60mg morphine sulfate two or three times a day and 15mg morphine ... was taking and they just beefed up the amount in the morphine drip. Im pretty sure you'll be on a morphine drip ... lidocaine gets it from the outside. It's nice to be off morphine which didnt kill the pain anyway. Good luck on the...
- I have a morphine pump 14th April 2004
... [FONT=Palatino Linotype]Hi, geifer. I have the morphine pump and do not have any problems with it interfering ... should not interfer with your ability to swallow as the morphine does not travel UP the spine. Have you asked the doctor...
... Hi Carol, Do you just have morphine in your pump? I should have said that I also have ... marcane mixed with the morphine . Do you know if the effects of morphine goes thru ... the whole body or not? I know morphine can depress your breathing and can relax your body...
... Hi Geifer, Before reducing the morphine and reducing your relief, I would suggest removing ... balance the amount of marcaine with ability to function. Morphine does reduce smooth muscle contractions like your bowels ... that's what causes constipation. But with IT meds morphine doesn't run through your entire system systemicly...
- Shore - ??? on switching to Methadone 13th April 2004
... suggest meth is actually 5-10 times stronger than morphine and if Oxy is only 50% stronger than morph 20 mgs...
... months later switched to Kadioan and then generic LA morphine . Then switched back again. Every time I have switched ... unpleaseant I didn't want to simply increase my dose of morphine in hopes of ending the withdrawal. I would have experienced...
... will properly taper me down as they increase the IT morphine . I know it needs to be done ,my NP knows it needs...
... meth. Nobody would ever know I take 150 mgs plus the morphine . When yourin pain opiates act very diferently then...
... went almost 2 years on the same dose, switched to morphine for about a year and then switched right back to my...
... wholesaler, meaning they produce bulk meth , bulk morphine , and other bulk active ingredients for sale to other...
... researchers think meth is 5-10 times stronger than Morphine . When I swithced from 120mgs of meth I got better ... relief at 600 mgs of morphine which was 5x the dose.
Oxy is even stronger than ... morphine so I don't think I would agree that meth is 8-10 times...
- Disability for Chronic Pain 13th April 2004
... Anyone out there with an implanted morphine pump that has rec'd SSD/SSI? I've been told that due...
... the Germans in WW II because of the short supply of Morphine . It was first used (and still is) in the US as a...
- Contacting Oprah 11th April 2004
... old script form even for things like Oxycodone and Morphine , etc. 1 of those 4 is California, I used to have to...
- bone infection 10th April 2004
... Always ask what your being givin, I asumed it was more morphine as they had given me morph in the ER, during the hart...
- Pump Trial went great and so more stuff for Ken 8th April 2004
... This time they were doing a single bolus injection of morphine . My last trial was inpatient with a cath placed into ... I took my regular meds as instructed and as the IT morphine wore off it was like that same 100 pound bag started...
- PM Appt. - Update as promised 8th April 2004
... three-day hospital stay where they could increase the morphine at an accelerated pace while in a controlled environment ... also give him and me an indication of whether the morphine will again present the big problem I had with urinary ... retention. I did ask if something else besides morphine could be put in the pump and he said yes, but we're ... don't wholeheartedly agree with that, though. If the morphine should again cause problems, I can't understand why...
... Can I make the assumption that you're speaking of a morphine pump?
If so, can you provide a little more details ... that I might require a spinal stimulator and/or a morphine pump if the fusion does not alleviate my pain. But ... , my neurosurgeon really talked the morphine pump down, stating that the technology is not where...
... difference which I'm so thankful for. Carol, do you have morphine in your pump? If so, did you ever have a problem with ... urinary retention from the morphine ? Just curious cause it seemed to be a real problem ... I guess I should have mentioned mine was about the morphine pump. I had the implant done last year around June ... retention was a hugh problem for me, but it came from the morphine and not the pump. It was proved to me that it was ... the morphine , when they turned the pump off and put me back on ... oral meds. The pump was still in me, but the morphine was not, so that's how I knew it was the morphine ... of info using the search mode here and looking up morphine or pain pump around June, July, August of last year...
... dosing of Oxy rather than BID.
His statement about morphine and not wanting to use heavy duty drugs doesn't really ... any drug is going to crerate a bigger problem than Morphine , they simply use less of the stronger med in the pump ... delivered daily.
Say you go to dilaudid instead of morphine , Dilaudid is about 7 times stronger than morphine ... dilaudid, I don't know why a doc would care if you have morphine , dilaudid, fentanyl, sufentanyl or carfentanyl in ... to deliver as much fenatnyl or dilauadid as it does morphine . He just may not be familiar with titrating the other...
- Oxycontin,Pharmacy's,Crime... 6th April 2004
... closing time and all they wanted was Oxycontin, no Morphine or other Narc's or Benzo's not even money!! Is it ... because it gives a high similiar to morphine but not so sedating, more of a stimulating high?
... oxycodone a more stimulating drug then sedating like morphine . This is getting really bad I read stuff all the time...
- shore 5th April 2004
... tolerance. Meaning if your tolerant to say 100mgs of morphine because you took it for a year, you would also be ... get away from that med. Switch to an equal amount of Morphine and see if the same phenomena occurs with morphine ... Now switching from a synthetic opiate to a drug like morphine your not just changing opiates but your changing the...
... hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone, codeine, or morphine ). Because of their rapid clearance, these drugs must ... hydromorphone, 30 to 60 mg of codeine, or 15 to 30 mg of morphine .
The common strategy in treating chronic pain ... Oxycodone is available in an eight- to 12-hr formulation, morphine in both eight- to 12- and 24-hr formulations, and ... 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...
