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Posted: 16 April 2008 at 12:23pm | IP Logged

Awww hugs hun

It seems they are keen to put us on these drugs at a high dose but can't support us when we don't want to be on them any longer.

Hope you get the help you need soon hun.

x

Posted: 16 April 2008 at 4:29pm | IP Logged

yeah Madz, stay on it til Monday, then the doc will give you a plan to decrease it properly hunny.  I once forgot to take my morning meds before I went to work one day and boy did I know about it!!

The doc is very unwilling, lets say, to up my morphine, Im trying so hard to manage on 10mg continuous slow release morphine sulphate - but it is very very hard. 

Please let us know how you get on hunny, and I hope you dont get too distressed with the withdrawal xxxxxx

Posted: 16 April 2008 at 4:41pm | IP Logged

lol nikki hun, my doc is almost pleading me to go proper morphine full time as she hates seeing me in pain and plodding along but the side effects of orapmorph (headaches etc) are bad enough as it is.

Not to add to the fact that i neeed to be compus mentus thing for my kids and driving why is it so hard to find a decent balance between meds and the side effects!

Good luck madz XXX cuppa afters??

Posted: 19 April 2008 at 4:55pm | IP Logged

Coming off it is no fun chica.  Your body craves it, hence the horribleness you are going through.  It takes TIME to come off it chica, so dont do it cos you feel like it, let the doc do his biz and bring you off slowly.

It wont take away the feelings as no matter how gradual you come off it, its still going to be there..but your body will adjust...just takes TIME.

So go get a brew.  You might not want to eat...but EAT anyway