(both prescribed and otherwise, anywhere from 2 to 6 daily)
2007-04-30 09:19:32 · 5 answers · asked by Query 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
It depends on what you are taking them for? Cancer? Arthritis? My problem being the later Arthritis and I have just started the morphine. However the first sign of Arthritis age 21 and am now almost 49! Reckon I have managed it all rather well until the discs went in the back. Anyway, the problem with pain killers, as the name suggests killers, so on them long enough, or take to many at it is RIP. Having said that, the longer you are on them the less affect they have, because you get 'used' to them. I was never one for taking pain killers, as I could hurt myself while on them and never know, so was very wary of them. My Doc would give me 100 and they would last until the expiry date and I would hand half of them back, five years! I struggled with pain, day in and day out until it became my friend. However when the Discs went and the nerve root is affected, this is PAIN! It only took me one week of vomiting to get used to the 'small dose' of morphine, but now I have, quality of life has improved. The drawback, should I need a serious operation, will they be able to give me anything for the pain, as my body will be used to the morphine? So unless the 'reason' is major, stay away from them, otherwise later on in life, you will be in PAIN and nothing the Doc can do for you. An example I went for surgery to remove a large lump from my breast was on the table three hours and when I came around was screaming in pain. The Nurse said 'You cannot be in pain we gave you something while you were on the table' I replied 'The pain is not from the surgery but my spine, Arthritis' The Nurse said 'That has nothing to do with us!' Be Warned!
2007-04-30 11:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by gillianprowe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure how many miligrams you are talking about (2-6 pills a day of what?) - but I would strongly recommend against taking anything narcotic for long term.
I recently had 2 major surgeries and have been on pain meds for 10 weeks! It's made me constipated, moody and sleepy for much of the time. Plus - they weren't that great at even getting rid of the pain. On top of that - I tried to quit cold turkey last week and was amazed at how terrible the withdrawal symptoms were. Even though I was taking a very low dose (only 30-40mgs of oxycodone per day) - my body had grown accustomed to it and it was not happy when I stopped cold turkey. I couldn't sleep for days, had cold/hot shivers, leg shaking, nausea, major anxiety and restlessness. Now I'm in the process of tapering off the meds slowly - but it's still hard.
Avoid pain meds in the first place and you'll be fine.
2007-04-30 09:29:54 · answer #2 · answered by ALLaboutDC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been studies on metabolism rates. Some people are actually fast metabolisers whilst some people are slow metabolisers! So some people it can be a day, some people a month! On average it is about a week though. It will show up in a urine test along with the products produced by it's metabolism - norhydrocodone, hydromorphone, 6-hydrcodol and 6-hydrmorphone
2016-05-17 11:21:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can result in liver damage, depending on the pill.
2007-04-30 09:27:14 · answer #4 · answered by Crystal T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beside the dependency on them.
They begin not to do the job.
Have to up dosage. (not good)
Look into pain releaive clinic.
They do help.
Hope this helps
Ben
2007-04-30 09:29:34 · answer #5 · answered by benhogan7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋