What Is The Difference In Opana And Morphine (Page 2)
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just wanted to know if there is a difference between the 2. I am perscribed morphine sulfate er 15 mg twice daily. My neck has been operated on a few times so i have severe pain daily. I forgot my pills at home over the weekend. My mother is perscribed Opana 10mg. She gave me one and it seemed to work better. Wanted to know if there is a difference between the 2. I am not sure how to go about asking my dr to switch me. Don't want her to freak about my mom giving me one of hers...

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I'm 28 with chronic pain for almost 16 years and a tentative diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome as well as some slipped discs in my spine, rheumatoid arthritis in my spine, a missing bone in my lumbar spine, and severe muscle spasms. I get that B.S. "You're too young for....(whatever)" even to the point that a spinal surgeon, supposedly the best in the state, told me come back when I'm 40!!! That was about 5 years ago. Another has told me I'm too young and must have been abused as a child to have so much "pain" which was said in such a condescending tone I knew he thought I was just a junkie needing a fix. I have loving parents and was never abused and spent the entire 45 minute drive home crying hysterically to my LOVING and SUPPORTIVE mom and dad. My local ER turned me away TEN TIMES thinking I was a junkie until I refused to leave the 11th time---the next day they tried to get me to leave by telling me I didn't want to go thru the pain and risks of exploratory surgery. I jumped on it and they discovered an issue that apparently would have killed me within 2 weeks. I had been trying to get answers for 3months at that point....if they would have turned me away again I wouldn't even be typing this and my 2 young daughters would be orphans. These doctors need to stop treating patients this way. I don't want to sound dramatic or insult anyone in any way, but I HIGHLY doubt they would tell a pediatric cancer patient their too young for it and turn them away with a cold shoulder. It's disgusting. I normally don't post on stuff, just read to try and find helpful things, but everyone seems to be having such similar experiences and it breaks my heart. Yours especially....I WISH I could tell my body that I'm too young for this: not kidding, I literally have but it didn't listen. Compassion and empathy should be REQUIRED courses for every medical degree, in my opinion. If they've never experienced it or dealt with it they can be so harsh and judgmental.

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You are so right. Dr's these days want to put ppl with chronic pain in a box and think we are all just addicts looking for a fix. But if that was the case then we would get it off the streets like junkies do but we don't. We do the right thing and pay them for doing nothing but looking down on us. Sometimes I'm too embarrassed to tell my true pain level bc I don't wanna be characterized as an addict and that's truly sad. In my opinion if pain specialist have never had personal chronic pain issues then they can't tell me how to deal with mine. And I hate when a Dr tells me that I'm to young to have chronic pain. What the hell does my damn age have to do with my pain level
F***ing i****s.

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Well, i told my doctor that the morphine worked some for like three or four months then it seemed to not be working so she switched me to the opana which is suppose to be over twice as strong as morphine on paper! Opana is derived from morphine anyways basically with oxycodine in it!

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I agree. We r not all drug addicts
Most of is don't WANT to e on these heavy narcotics every day. But we have no choice. (Going in for c5-c6 fusion next week bc I'm tired of pain meds and building a tolerance to them.
Plus side effects of opana are killing me. I vomit regularly on them. I'm allergic to everything else.

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They might be getting shut down by the DEA for not following protocol on other patients and by her telling you to find somewhere to go was a hint and warning because she knows your a real pain patient and not abusing or doing things illegally , the DEA are going after docs that don't do exams and prescibe even if dirty UA and known abuse, because those docs are all about the money they are making cuz of the self pay patients

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I have RSD and am on the fentanly patch and use opana for breakthrough pain. I used to use Actiq which is oral fentanyl lollipops but recently I heard that there is a fentanyl pill. You may want to ask about those.

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Hi. I feel so bad for you guys. 3 yrs ago I lifted a heavy motor up on my shoulder for work and popped 2 disks out in my neck. C3.c4. And had them fused. And in Jan this yr. I slipped on ice at work and popped 2 more disks out and cracked one of the bones. I haft a say some of these drs. Have no compassion. They think we're all drug addicts I think. Sometimes I do wish it on them. Just so they'll know what real pain is and how it feels to be treated like a drug addict. Although it's not nice to wish bad things on people. I just wish the got would keep there nose out of things and that drs learned compassion.

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Hi i suffer from chronic pain,and have for many years now, i have been on the fentynal patch at one time and that was just prior to my cervical fusion of 3 discs. i didn't like the way it made me feel, i had been upped on the dosage, and was up to 100mg/3day and my surgeon was not happy that i was on this, i told him that i was in the process of working my way off of it when i was seeing him just prior to my surgery, but he decided to go ahead and do the surgery anyway, gave me the fentynal during the actual surgery, and i was in the ICU overnight, only to be snatched off it the very day after, and i went thru serious withdrawal symptoms, and he could have cared less, i just prefer to never go back to them, i am now on morphine 30mg, (150mg a day) and oxycodone 10- 3x day and my problem, is this, while nothing gets me completely pain free, i am able to tolerate things at a bearable rate, even with some of the pain, but this is my dilemma, i am a medicare person, i am disabled, and the pain clinic that i go to, has decided that they may possibly END their contract with Medicare due to the fact that Medicare has decided to stop paying for IN-House Labs, but are willing to pay for labs to be done, only they have to be sent OUT, to an Outsource lab, but this company is probably gonna end their contract with MEDICARE, and that basically leaves me OUT.. i have no idea what i am gonna do?? and the crazy thing is this, the PA that i see, was all over the place when i went in the last time, she tried to say she had to "change" my version of Morphine, and i said, that's Ok, b/c she said it was the DEA doing it, and repeated that over and over, and yet Never changed it. then she said, i didn't have any of the oxycodone in my body the last time i gave a UA, which is simply Not True, then that's when she told me about the Medicare issue, and i asked what that meant?? i asked did that mean that i needed to find another dr? and she said yes, also while in the midst of this conversation, she told me that she "HAD" to "Change" me from the Morphine to the Fentynal Patch, "b/c the Morphine wasn't taking care of my pain" i do NOT want to do that, but i told her i would rather deal with some of the pain and Not go on the patch, but long story short she wanted to put me on that Patch, and in the very next sentence told me that "I needed to find somewhere else to go". My questions are this, Where should i go? and WHY would she want to put me on "something stronger" when she is Not thinking she is gonna be the one to continue to prescribe them and Monitor them?? i am left out in the cold so i feel, does anyone have any suggestions, and can she just "drop" me, i'm thinking that she tried to say that there wasn't any "oxycodone" in my body just so she could "cut me off" me without having to provide service to me any longer and not refer me to someone else?? maybe i'm just 'Crazy" lol.. but it is a Serious Matter to me, she never followed through on anything she said that day, and yet she still prescribed my oyxcodone that day, "if' there "wasn't" any in my body, wasn't she "Not" supposed to give me anymore??? i do PRAY that this is Worked out, with their company and with Medicare, I do Wish that these People Voting on "MY HEALTH" would "talk" to some of us that DO SUFFER with TRUE CHRONIC PAIN... i don't wish it on them, but sometimes i think i'd like for them to "Try" to "walk a day in my shoes" it's NOT EASY by any means.. PLEASE HELP if you can, THANKS :)

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I was given opana over a year ago. my pain got worsre and developed other pain. dr increased dose my pain was untolleratable. stopped taking all new pain went away. it causes joint pain and swelling of joints. look up all side affects. I had many.

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Yes your body can definitely get used to morphine. As it can any narcotic. Percocets and Dilaudid IR work good for me. I was just switched to open a because "its stronger" but my pain has gotten worse since I switched. But I have chronic conditions so my case may be different.

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I have had 5 cervical surgeries in the past five years. The end result has been the fusion of C3 to T1. Unfortunately, I still suffer from pain and after every surgery he goal is to become pain free yet I end up with a different source of pain and further complications because of the added levels being fused. Right now most of my pain is at the base of my skull. My surgeon says I have occipital nerve pain and the cause is due to the increased strain placed on the two remaining levels at the top of my spine. The only resolve would be to have my spine fused to my skull. I do not want to have that procedure yet. Here is my question. I have been on the same dose of morphine which is 30 mg ER 3 times a day and 30mg IR 4 times a day for three years. Prior to that I was on a Fentynal patch but developed sensitivity to the adhesive glue of the patch. Honestly, while on the patch, that was the only time I was really almost pain free. The conversion from the patch to morphine is the dosage I have been on like I said for three years now. I have tried not to increase my dosage and basically lie to the doctor about my pain scale. I tell him I am at a 6 and I accept that but since my last posterior surgery to re-fuse C3-C4 and C6-C7-T1 and the palcement of rods. My pain has slowly increase to the point that I am not able to tolerate much more pain. It is affecting my life now to the point that my quality is decreasing fast. The surgery, only 7 months post-op now did work and was successful. However with the change of the anatomy and the mechanics of my neck, the pain I feel will always be with me. I see my doctor on Thursday and I am going to tell him about the increased pain. I do not think that morphine works on me any longer. Is this possible. Can the body just stop working with morphine, no matter what the dosage is. If so, what can I take. I would love to go back on the patch but know that within 6 months I will get the welts and rashes from the glue. Is there a drug that would provide me relief similar to the patch? Any advise on this and how to approach my physician about the increase pain and decreased quality of life. If it helps, I am very strict on my medicines. I take it as prescribed, never abused, ran out of or taken more than I should. I am not an addict, I am just dependant on these opiates to make my life worth living. Thank you. I look forward to your advise.

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Opana contains the active ingredient Oxymorphone and it is actually stronger than Morphine. So, the one 10mg tablet that you took was actually equal to taking 30mgs of the Morphine, at once.

They are both narcotics, so the side effect profile is similar and can include: nausea, dizziness, drowsiness and constipation.


It is always best to be honest with your doctor, but yes, it may cause some issues if you tell them you took something that isn't prescribed for you. Are you under a pain treatment contract?

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