Sprout
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My fiances mother is a Chronic Pain patient due to liver Cirrhosis, 3 strokes and left sided heart failure along with bowel problems.
She is currently taking a cocktail of 600mg of codeine, 400mg of tramadol and 200mg of morphine daily, along with 2g of Tylenol. This requires a massive amount of tablets to be swallowed which she has many times stated is ridiculous (100+ a day in combination with non-pain meds).
I'd like to question why she has not been prescribed a stronger opiate/opiod by now - 10+ years of meds.
Surely OC80s, opana, Dilaudid, fentanyl or even Diacetyl-morphine would be more suitable, much less tablets, longer half-lives and much more effective.
Anyone give any insight? Also to why a liver cirrhosis patient is given Tylenol of all things?
She is currently taking a cocktail of 600mg of codeine, 400mg of tramadol and 200mg of morphine daily, along with 2g of Tylenol. This requires a massive amount of tablets to be swallowed which she has many times stated is ridiculous (100+ a day in combination with non-pain meds).
I'd like to question why she has not been prescribed a stronger opiate/opiod by now - 10+ years of meds.
Surely OC80s, opana, Dilaudid, fentanyl or even Diacetyl-morphine would be more suitable, much less tablets, longer half-lives and much more effective.
Anyone give any insight? Also to why a liver cirrhosis patient is given Tylenol of all things?