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I've just been put on daily morphine for the rest of my life. Taxpayer funded morphine.

I'd be more sceptical, but apparently this dude has treated 5000 patients with CFS/ME over more than 20 years, and none of them have gotten addicted, nor asked for increasing doses once the right pain relief dose has been found. Because all they are interested in is the pain relief, not any psychological effects. I'm a little worried, because everyone else says all painkillers eventually damage one organ or another, if they are taken regularly. He swears it won't. gah.

PS, please let me know if I start typing like Growlingbunny or Tailmon.

Edited, Feb 9th 2012 3:52am by Aripyanfar

My husband has been on oxycodone for about a decade because of chronic back pain. The only time I even remember he's a pain-pill addict is when he runs out for one reason or another (this doesn't happen very often). Then he goes into a withdrawling drug-addict frenzy.

I've gotten a little morphine for pain a few times in my life. Made it so easy to sleep~

The last time I had morphine was after my C-section. Wonderful stuff...

Watch-out for constipation.

Never had any morphine. The strongest pain med I was ever on was Vicodin. Because I'm so sensitive to anything (half a cup of coffee or soda and I'm twitching like a tweaker, half a glass of wine and I'm out in 10 minutes), the Vicodin had a serious effect on me. I took half a pill and was asleep for 17 hours. I'm the person that the drug companies think of when they're making their warning labels of "Can cause marked drowsiness."

Seriously.

Had it once, and spent the whole time until the drug wore off feeling sick. After that I just decided to forgo it and deal with the pain. So much more pleasant that way. It was only a wisdom tooth extraction though; nothing too scary.

Thanks for your stories, It's helpful to me to know the types of experiences other people have had with this family of stuff. As a side question, anyone had Endep before? I'm to take the low-dose Endep just before bedtime, and the MS Contin when I get up, and just before bedtime. The Contin is supposed to block pain "experienced" by my conscious, frontal lobes. The Endep blocks pain messages before they even get there. Somewhere in my spinal column.

Seriously, the hospital has ******* awesome drugs.

I"m kinda already fuzzy headed, to greater and lesser extents, partly from my condition, and partly from one of my daily meds I've been on for a while. It is usually taken once monthly at most by other patients, but my doctor decided I was an exceptional case and put me on daily. It feels kinda awkward because for that prescription every time she renews it for me she has to call up a government branch and get it ok'ed with a bureaucrat. Partly because it's the sort of prescription medicine patients could theoretically sell on the black market, and partly because, well, it's highly physically addictive and only severe circumstances justify addicting a patient to it. I'm kinda halfway embarrassed, halfway amused, and halfway perversely proud of being on it like this.

But If I'd known how much it would compromise my speech and thought I may not have decided to go on it.