My meds

Hi my name is Mandy and i have been on Morphine for around 4/5 yrs and the drs have spoke about taken me off it and re-looking at my meds but also to check for another illness basically start a fresh. I have Fms and suffer very badly with the pain so i eat the tablets like sweets which i know isnt good. They say i will have to go cold turkey as i have a addition to morphene after being on it for so long. I am very worried as i dont know life without it and before i went on it i couldnt get off the bed so it as made a big diffence to my life. Any one got advice or going though the same as me with morphine as im told cold turkey is horrible.
Thanks for reading
Mandy

[Jules1866]

mandy,

what type of morphin are you taking? time release? why would they want you to stop cold turkey? I am tapering off time release kadian right now and they have me on a very closely monitored taper schedule. No doc should make you do cold turkey? did you ask them for a taper?

Jules

[Some_life1976]

wow hun ! how much have you been takeing no doc should do that something deff. wroung with that you need to tapper i would talk to then about a tapper or a sub of some kind

[Lisa034]

Wow a doctor telling you to come off morphine cold turkey.  Did they find pot or something else in your system that made him upset?  There is something real wrong with a doctor making you come off morphine cold turkey.  Talk to him about a taper and let us know what he says
Good Luck!!!


Lisa
Jacksonville,FL

[worried878]

What is ur daily dose of morphine...mg for mg if taken orally/morphine is really not much/if any stronger than oxy or hydro....alot depends on how much u take and how bad u want to stop...this forum is great..lots of support so keep posting

[mandy1965]

Hi No i do not puff or take any drugs at all only what the dr as put me on. Im on slow release Morphine 40mg ago around 4 times aday due to pain.The dr is worried about me keep losing my voice and says i need to come off the morphine and go back to the beginning when i first got ill. Before the Morphine i was put on all sorts of meds and nothing worked until i was put on Morphine and then i was able to return to work which as been hard but i do my best. What is taper ive never heard of it before and can it help if i do go cold turkey.
Thanks for your replys
Mandy

[Jaquableu]

I have been on 90 mg of Morphine a day for the last 4-5 yrs.  When I moved to Michigan they didn't want to prescribe it anymore so the Doc said to wean myself.  I dropped a pill a month until I was down to one a day (15mg).  I have taken one a day for the last several months.

2 days ago I quit taking it at all.  I really thought since I had weaned myself to only one there would be very little symptoms I would go through but I was very wrong.  I have flu like symptoms, I get chills my nose is running, my tummy cramps, I am anxious, and go thru cycles of big time anxiety. I am having heart palpatations.   I am eating a little chocolate to help my brain chemistry. Endorphins -- need endorphins- lol

I hope this helps.  Btw any doc who does not detox you like I wrote above is not good-- get another opinion.   You have to gradually reduce your amount if you have been on it for any amount of time.  Good luck J