Is Gabapentin Safe/good/bad With Morphine? (Page 2)

Hello. I have multiple pain issues due to generalized OA, neuralgia, bilateral sciatica, trigger thumbs, carpal tunnel, protruding discs, trapped nerves, compression of spinal cord at L4/5, tendenosis, fibromyalgia and chronically inflammed tendon/nerve sheaths. I'm 52, female and in quite a bit of pain and take a few meds that include 600mg GABAPENTIN 3xdaily, which I love and can't do without. I also take dihydra., and naproxin. I've asked my GP for something more/stronger and I want to get MORPHINE at the starter dose of 30mg slow release, to see how I get on with it.

My question I'd like to know from users of gabapentin with morphine is how have you got on with them + is the combo safe/good/bad in your experience? I'd like to know how your side-effects have been esp., for constipation, drowsiness and nausea, because I'm very sensitive to those side effects. Thank you.

Also, due to menopause I suffer very badly with extreme flushes/flashes and sweats; so please could you tell me if gaba/morphine makes you hotter, or more sweaty as I can do without that!

In the UK the NHS advises against using Gabapentin with Morphine (it doesn't say why). But I've read a few clinical papers that say the combo is very effective at reducing inflammation, which is ideal for me, so I want it.

I hope you'll tell me your experiences. Thank you very much :)

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Gabapentin is a horrible medication, the side affects are very bad, it will give you tons of side affects without any relief from the medication. Lots of the smarter doctors now do not prescribe it.

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I take Oxycontin 20MGS, every AM, Gabapentin BID (twice a day), Flexeril at bedtime, and Klonopin 1MG at bedtime.
I have 5MG Oxycodone for breakthrough pain (5mg does 0 so I take two 5mg's). I am also in the medical mj program (CT) and I am not dead. :-) Medical MJ allowed me to wean down to the 20MGS. There was a few years I was on 120MGs of Oxycodone and/or AVINZA/morphine. That marijuana program allows you to taper with medical mj as a buffer, to the anxiety and shaking. I do NOT smoke either. I use the vape oils in the pen.

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Everyone is different. I used Gabapentin 300MGS TID and am now down to BID. It started making me DIZZY and blurred vision. I started crying and I also take Oxycodone which I am weaning down on a bit more.
You can take them together, its just not working out for me.
I prefer to take the least amount of opiates and fall back on my legal CBD 1:1 vape pen, and at night Indicol vape pen. Neither will ever kill me.

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You should be fine. It's not anything super strong. Only problem I ever had was headaches and tiredness sometimes. Every one's body is different so it mite affect you differently and be a good add on the your routine. Wish you luck and be safe.

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I was on 3 x 300mg Gabs, I often had yellow stools; I was also on 10mg morphine at the same time, this increased to 20mg morphine and 3 x 600mg Gab, because of broken back, palsy, loss of muscle use, nerve pain and spasms.....When both meds were combined I was bad with diarrhea, constant for 5 days, given pills to stop, then had constipation for 5 days, taking moviedom to ease, then back with diarrhea. It has been that way ever since..I cannot get a balance, so I have stopped both...will live within until I eventually get my surgery...

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Re: Spyz (# 3)

I’m a mum of 3 and I take 100mg of gabapentin and I’m fine on them and the test show it helps muscles. One day I couldn’t even get up in the middle of the night.

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Why do you say that? Iam Only asking because my mother was on 30 mg immediate release morphine her doctor put her on gabapentin and for three months months if your medical center said it’s the gabapentin that block the morphine so basically for three months morphine stored in her kidneys and then all the sudden the gabapentin let loose and then released into the blood blood stream slowly poisoning her and overdosing her thank God I woke up out of my sleep and seen that something wasn’t right that next morning I called an ambulance because she was saying somebody drink or he’ll let us she did not recognize my father or my sister she only recognize me why is that hallucinationsCan somebody please give me an answer to this

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