I Am Taking Morphine Sulfate Er 30 Mg Twice A Day And Also Imm Rel 15mg (Page 2)
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I am taking morphine sulfate er 30mg tablets twice a day and also taking morphine sulfate imm rel 15mg once, sometimes twice a day. Finances won't allow me to get the morphine er at this time. Question: what is dosage of morphine imm per day without morphine er for 5 or 6 day until I can get the morphine er?

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I have undergone 16 operations and was forced to take 60mg of er Morphine Sulfate for 6+ years. After a couple of more surgeries, I decided that I wanted to stop this medicine.

Mind you, I would STILL have to take a 10/325 percocet if my pain was really bad.

So I tried weaning myself off by lowering the dosage. I went through sweats, crankiness, and extreme pain.

I consulted my pain management doctor and he tried to have me cut down to 15mg on a strict schedule in order to fully stop the morphine.

After screwing around with his formula for about 2 weeks, I decided to simply stop on my own and double down on the Percocet.

This is NOT recommended or a smart plan.

While I did manage to stop ALL the Morphine, the pain was unbearable. Every bone in my body hurt, even my teeth.

Remember, I had been taking 60mg for 6+ years so I had no idea how much my body was truly hurting.

After 3 days in excruciating pain (but no withdrawals), my girlfriend begged me to go back on the medicine. She could not bear to see me in so much pain, nor did she want to hear me whine and moan so much.

The point of this description is to say that I do not think 30mg is that much of a risk for withdrawals. I was taking double that and I managed to stop.

I currently take 15mg 4x a day. I am finding that it is simply not enough and I am being forced to take anywhere from 2-3 Percocet to cope with the pain.

I will be going back onto 30mg er 3x a day in order to minimize the amount of Tylenol and pills that I must take to make it through the day.

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I get severe migraines along w my ms and fms .i have astha so i have to be careful. Is 3 30s too much in a 10 hr frame? Gettin no relief.

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I have been taking 30 mg morphine er for 3 months. I've been reading a lot about withdrawal symptoms and I do not want to wait any longer to get off this drug. Can someone tell me how difficult it will be to stop taking this drug. Thanks

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BTW, as of yesterday --9/08/2011- I get 60 Morphine ER 15mg tabs from Walmart for $23/month. I have a basic Rx group discount card that anyone can grab for a song or even free as I believe Walmart has their own discount card program too. But these can save you a lot these days and are a one-time only cost. And SHOP around because Rx prices vary widely. I do find across the board that Walmart has by far the lowest Rx prices using my card. Typically 2x-3x LESS than the other pharmacies price for my Rx plan.

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I realize this is very late to answer the question but thought it might help others how to find this info out about any medication to find out how long a dose of IR morphine will last just Google something like

morphine immediate release half life

Half-life gives you the time it takes for your body to process 50% of the medication, 50% of the population, so that only 50% remains in your blood stream. I know that is a lot of 50%'s but it's easy to puzzle out. Also look up something called the LD50...this refers to a measure of what is consider a lethal dose to 50% of the population. There are other LD percentages but what to understand from that number is...this stuff can be dangerous so never bump up even close to that LD50 dose.

Your body is pretty good at processing opiates so their IR half-life is generally ONLY 2-4hrs which can vary for each individual. Also taking IR opiates like morphine will increase your tolerance very rapidly, your body LIKES opiates [generally speaking anyway] so it can stop producing it's own natural endorphins which is where the dependence/withdrawal cycles comes into play. So tread very lightly on using the IR versions of these meds.

BTW, even the ER/CR (no true difference between designations really, at least not from our POV as a patient) will make you dependent on opiates in a relatively short time. I've been on 15mg morphine ER 2x/day for two months now and can feel mild withdrawal when I am late on a dose. That is because the my body has become accustom to the presence of the endorphin metabolite of the morphine so it has stopped or reduced it's own production to try and maintain it's natural equilibrium. And remember dependence is NOT addiction it's a natural physical response to taking these medications and pretty much cannot be avoided if you take these things on even a short term, a couple weeks is more than enough time but it again varies by the individual. Think of addiction this way...you would sell your mother to a Mexican brothel to get more drugs when addicted and pleasure seeking the euphoria/high you associate with the drug...in dependence you simply take you meds in order to get pain relief not to get high and if anyone looked sideways at you mom you'd still smack them down. :) But in both cases your body is still dependent on the medication just one has a craving and the other is a different level of craving...just to the point of pain relief. But it is still the same difficulty to ween yourself off either situation just the addict has a far rougher time of it mentally on top of physically.

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How long does morphine sulfate er 30 mg last when u have severe pain?

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They are both Morphine, so the dosage would be the same, however, the problem you are going to run into is that it is not going to last as long and since it is being released into your body much faster, this will potentiate the side effects, such as the nausea, dizziness and constipation that it can cause.

Have you consulted with your doctor? You should really do so, before you try anything of this nature.

It would probably work better for managing your pain to take a lower dose, say 15mgs, at once and just take that every 6 to 8 hours, as needed, for pain, rather than taking 30mgs of the immediate release, all at once.

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