Toreadores
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- Nov 24, 2015
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Hi guys, 1st I want to apologise for the long post, but I want to give you as much information for you as possible if somebody can help me with my issue and question. If you don't want to read all of it and go straight my question just skip to the last paragraph, thank you in advance!
I was recently prescribed morphine extended release 100mg (light blue M 100) every 12 hours for chronic pain - I was hit by a car (as a pedestrian) 2 years ago resulting to broken pelvis (into 18 pieces), broken femur and damaged sciatic nerve. After my discharging and general recocery, me and my doc experimented with almost every possible narcotic painkiller during the last 10 months and of all, the morphine ER helps me the most in long term so my doc fixed on that.
During the weekends I have no problems at all, the morphine last very long and works great. The problem is during workdays, my work is in pretty stressful field and when I finish work at 4pm I am feel smashed, my pain comes way earlier than usually does and I can't take it anymore, my next doc app. is in 3 weeks and I want to find a way out untill then.
So here is what concerns me and want to ask - is it safe to take something in between the morphine dosages? I have relatively high tolerance, but I want to stay safe. I have some dilaudid 4mg IR pills left from few months ago and was wondering if there are any bad interactions between the morphine ER and dilaudid? Can I take the dilaudid for breakthrough pain?
- If I can, how long after taking the morphine is safe to take dilaudid (or in general any IR pill)? I take the morphine at 8am and 8pm.
- Or 2nd option - can I break the morphine pill in half (50mg), take it around 4pm (that's 8 hrs after the initial 100mg) and skip taking another pill until next morning?
- is there any general safe time to take IR pill after OR before an extended release drug?
Thank you for reading my story, I really hope somebody will be able to help me, everybody who went thru somekind of accident knows how devastating is to live in constant pain and how it changes you.
I was recently prescribed morphine extended release 100mg (light blue M 100) every 12 hours for chronic pain - I was hit by a car (as a pedestrian) 2 years ago resulting to broken pelvis (into 18 pieces), broken femur and damaged sciatic nerve. After my discharging and general recocery, me and my doc experimented with almost every possible narcotic painkiller during the last 10 months and of all, the morphine ER helps me the most in long term so my doc fixed on that.
During the weekends I have no problems at all, the morphine last very long and works great. The problem is during workdays, my work is in pretty stressful field and when I finish work at 4pm I am feel smashed, my pain comes way earlier than usually does and I can't take it anymore, my next doc app. is in 3 weeks and I want to find a way out untill then.
So here is what concerns me and want to ask - is it safe to take something in between the morphine dosages? I have relatively high tolerance, but I want to stay safe. I have some dilaudid 4mg IR pills left from few months ago and was wondering if there are any bad interactions between the morphine ER and dilaudid? Can I take the dilaudid for breakthrough pain?
- If I can, how long after taking the morphine is safe to take dilaudid (or in general any IR pill)? I take the morphine at 8am and 8pm.
- Or 2nd option - can I break the morphine pill in half (50mg), take it around 4pm (that's 8 hrs after the initial 100mg) and skip taking another pill until next morning?
- is there any general safe time to take IR pill after OR before an extended release drug?
Thank you for reading my story, I really hope somebody will be able to help me, everybody who went thru somekind of accident knows how devastating is to live in constant pain and how it changes you.