How can I ease morphine withdrawals?

Well finally someone that knows what they are talking about. Albeit a little harsh.



Morphine is natural usually organic medication that works well and has worked well for thousands of years. Don't take more than you need to and it will last for 40 plus years. Unfortunately you will be taking it only to maintain after about 20yrs.

i was on 480ml a day of slow release mst's. the withdrawels are really bad, i was soaking wet with sweat but freezing cold, i felt scared to be alone, stomach cramps were servere and couldnt sleep for 5 nights. felt sick at all times, my advise is to have warm baths with lavender drops with nice slow music in the background late at night so when you get out the bath you go straight to bed. this helped me alot as it relax's you. also keep telling yourself you fell so unwell due to withdrawels and you will start to feel better.after 5 nights i managed to get a good nights sleep and never felt better, just dont give up and good luck

Im sorry but i dissagree Im was addicted 2 morphine all ova making an appointment 2 pain management clinic,This is my story I have been addicted to morphine(Kapanol) and Ordine syrup for 13 years i was put on methodone in the beggining as the doctor mistook me for some1 else it helped my pain but when i seen another doc he put me str8 onto Kapanol 200mg x 2 a day and the 3mg syrup every 6 hrs,I was furious i was an addict and so ashamed it never made me feel anything but normal so i could function.As i had kids,i went cold turkey about 6yrs ago after 7 days i felt good but my whole body was full of pins and needles unbearable.My nerve endings were on fire,I tried to seek help was not sleeping 4 6days str8 quick nap no sleep 4 6 days again.I was a wreck.I ended up in hossy in agony from pain so back on the morph again,now i am slowly tapering down but u need to get the drug residue out of ur fatty tissues thru excersize,sauna, to swet and vitamin & mineral supplements,plenty of water vitamin C and niacin will help empty toxins from bowels & unsaturated oils if u dont rid ur body of the drug stored in ur fatty tissues this is why u keep craving the drug,I am now down to 10mg of syrup a day but im 50yr old female and its hard now to make myself excersise im so fatigued ,everyday i watch people,& cry praying just to be my normal healthy vegan self i was be4 some wanker put me on this road of hell all ova a mistake he thought i was his junkie patient he told me 2 be at hossy next day 2 start treatment i neva heard of methadone its f""king worse than morpine 1 appointment 2 a pain management clinic ruined my life, P.S. I ADMIT i took speed 4 3 days thats how i cut down im ashamed 2 admit this,i read it in a medical book,only 4 energy, it helped me excersise as i was so weak, excersise& sauna made me swet toxins out,vit C cleansed toxins from bowels so quick helped me 2 jump off Kapanol now i use syrup only when i cant bear it,Also i visualise myself drug free,I will get there i would rather put up with the pain & let ur own natural endorphins take over than b known as a morphine addict,I have 2 take 5ml in morning just 2 stop the psin in stomach,feeling like vomiting,totally out of balance,not grounded.To scared 2 get up and face my adult children,because i cry so easily,I pray 2 God every night "please 4give me & make me stronger to get thru this,Im just saying i dissagree, i hate it and i have pain, but people u call addicts that use it with no ailments to cause pain,they have a empty black hole that needs filling with love 1 day they were offered it and they felt light in,Yes they have made it hard for people with real pain,relaxation helps bring on ur own natural endorphins ide rather be addicted 2 that.Why is it addicts r filth in peoples eyes, even nurses and doctors eyes,but they sympathise with an alcoholic or an huge obese diabetic,I have been turned away from local hossy because they seen me there getting my treatment (METHADONE) I knew nothing bout this filthy,dirty,addictive c**p.

I don't even know how many days it's been now but Christ I feel like sh*t. Another night unable to sleep and thought I'd see if there was any info on the web about going through this. I've read from the beginning and have found some incredibly brave posts that have given me strength to continue even though I have plenty I could take in the cudboard. These are the posts that make me mad, making themselves sound like they're Dr's and yet in one case almost completely unable to spell and in both cases having no concept of the difference between chronic and acute cases. I'm boiling! I fell whilst at work in 2007, badly fractured T12 and ended up with a cage around it and the two surrounding verts, rib removed to create the graft,etc, don't want to bore you. Tramadol first, HELL, no high, no real effect after a few months, but no sleep, nightmares and a withdrawal as bad as we're talking about! So moved onto oramorph and MST, 'lovely', well it certainly helped get off the tramadol, but here I am now going through this at 5.40 in the morning with my knees cringing and my elbows screaming and not having slept for so long it hurts, I read idiots like I've quoted above and know they've never gone through what we're talking about, they've just read it out of a book, quoting the drug company party line! We don't want to spend our lives on drugs, sometimes you just have a bad accident and it hurts for a while and then you need to stop the painkillers. I'm not talking to the few druggies that have posted,no disrespect meant,(you have you're own demons),I'm talking to the majority of us who have had bad accidents, needed temporary pain relief, and ended up,not addicted but "Dependant", tell me the bloody difference from this side of the fence, or are you saying that's it now, stick with my prescribed dose and the rest of your life is "dependant". Don't mean to go on folks, just going through the same nightmare as most of you,what else do we do at 6.00 in the morning for the fifth day but look for similar souls, I'll be gone in a few days and I'm never coming back,(I'm sorry but you're a damn fool or a masochist if you do this more than once). Honestly though,ignore the sanctimonious 'Dr'ish bollocks that a couple of drug company paid twats have tried to foist on you, we know the truth! I WOULDN'T WISH THIS ON ANYONE! Take care and keep going, it's got to be worth it! s

Terribly sorry sweetheart, we're all struggling, keep on going!

Ta,darling,feeling a bit sorry for myself now!

Man, I hear you..I wont go into the whole story, but I've been on morphine sulfate 60 mg for over 2 years and being the addict I am..even though I do have a painful situation? My doctor said NO MORE! One lie too many and I'm suffering so much. It's awful and when I told them at the doc's office what I was experiencing they said I should go to the ER, but I haven' t yet. No job, no insurance,,so I decided to see what others had experienced with this scenario. I have all the symptoms you do and it sucks! Hang in there, my first time here~

It i true to a point what the guy is saying but, and there is always a but, when your doctor over subscries a medicine be it because he is busy or in my case I went away for 3 months and got 3 months prescription buhe doctor did not change the priscription back. I also find it frigtning that someone who has not been using a prescribed drug can comment on drug users. This is the problem we have ,people saying to drug users pull yourself out of it it's your fault. It is not their fault, it is the fault of society in not tackling issues such as jobs, housing, and social issues. The trouble is there is little votes in this subject for politicians, & it is to easy for the police to just pick up addicts and not the major suppliers. Please look at drug addiction as an illness that we need to help cure.

always been told I will be on it till I die never figured it would end up killing me. My dr has you sign a drug contract that states he will not represcribe even lost or stolen pills. I am 50 something and never did drugs until Rh arthritis put me through five back surgery, mersa staph, and pain I never knew was possi le. It runs in my family so no one would steal it from me, I keep praying I will find it so if anyone out there has and in with the Lord put in a good word for me, I just want to find what the Dr prescribed. Or tomorrow morning I will be in big trouble. So realliy what am I in for I have had the flu like stuff a few times when I was sick and couldn't keep it down or took it late but an hour or two late and I know it. Thanks

Thank You I take 100mg three times a day I am 52 and it has taken me that long to go through everything under the sun as did my dad and now two of my children due to Rh arthritis in our backs. PT, Spinal Simulator, many medications. acupuncture, getting 5 plus back surgeries, contracting mersa staph and every time you go to a ER or doctor or plan anyone you are called a drug seeker. I started with the flu once my dr sent me to ER for IV morphine and hours later I was climbing the walls about to be put in the Phy ward when my daughter got my dr on the phone and handed it to the ER dr to get them to believe us, even after seeing a prescription bottle. Well what brings me here today is what you said I signed a drug contract that said if my medication is lost or stolen he will not replace it. I lost my bottle today and I just filled it friday. I am scared to death!!!!

I came here to look at solutions, but nothing is going to help me with a drug test this week. I feel like I'm dying, literally I can't handle it.

Great post. Thank you.

Your post stood out like the proverbial 'sore thumb' but for all the right reasons. There are far too many people on here that seem to me, to be either on the wrong drug, over prescribed or abusing pain meds to whom they've been prescribed by a GP or consultant. From my own experience, morphine isn't a drug that is prescribed willingly by a family doctor and that's how it should be seeing as abuse of it is so rife. I had a cancerous bowel tumour 6 years ago which was removed by laparotomy. Chemo and radiotherapy followed. Sadly, the wound (mid chest to groin) became infected with MRSA and burst open. I nearly died. Was on a ventilator for 3 weeks and in an isolated HDU ward for 14 months as the infection cleared. I was on morphine 4 hourly and had to have the wound debriefed (scraped clean of dead/infected matter) every other day. Normally, this would be done under GA but as I was too weak, I was given fentanyl, morphine and entinox and still moaned and groaned. When I was eventually discharged from hospital I was given tramadol so I felt pretty bad for about a week with all the symptoms that many of you have described but the worst thing was the pain in my belly, back and underneath my ribs and down the inside of my thighs. I was also having problems with my bowel and bladder so back into hospital. It was des covered that the MRSA had 'eaten away' at various nerves and muscle tissues and caused adhesions sticking much of my insides together. The diagnosis was autonomic neuropathy and it was something I would have to learn to manage with drugs as it's an incurable condition. So started my long journey. As I had a good career and had already had so much time off work, plus, I wanted to take as few pain meds as possible, I had a spinal cord stimulation pacemaker implanted. The surgery was brutal but initial results were very good. It put me into a state of paraesthesia which didn't kill all my pain but add in a couple of tramadol and some amitriptylline for the nerves and I could avoid opiates altogether. I was so happy. 6 months later, I felt very ill, flu like, then rapidly worse. Raging temperature, blood blisters all over my body and febrile seizures. A ct scan showed a massive cerebrospinal infection around the implant site (caused by my weak immune system rejecting the implant). Septicaemia quickly followed and I was raced to theatre to have the whole spinal cord stimulation pacemaker kit ex planted. Again, I was lucky to survive and now had more nerve damage at the implant/infection site. I couldn't believe it. I thought I'd beaten cancer and that would be the end but it was actually the easiest part and only the start of my real troubles. I was now left with nowhere else to go but opiates. Before I took my first dose of oramorph, my employer made me redundant due to my sick record. I was gutted if you'll excuse the pun. I was given a Chronic Pain consultant and nurse who gave me a strict pain plan of MSContin 60mg twice a day, topiramate 50mg twice a day (for neuropathic pain), diclofenac acid for bowel transit pain, oramorph 10mg/5ml 10-15ml as needed for breakthrough pain (ESP at night) and Zopiclone as required for sleepless nights. I also have the ability to call my MacMillan nurse on unbearable days and she will bring me a fentanyl patch to wear for 3 days. It is all very strictly managed - or so I thought. 10 days prior to my repeat prescription being due, I noticed that I was almost out of MST, oramorph and 2 fentanyl patches I had at home from the pack of 3 the nurse gave me were also gone. I had 1 MST 60 tablet left and 10mls of oramorph that, when I went to take it, was nothing but water in the bottle.... Someone had been stealing from me. After all I'd been through. Worse still, it turned out to be my fiancé of 4 years who said he was finding life hard coping with a sick woman rather than the fun loving go getter he fell in love with so I had to take some responsibility for it too! I was horrified that the man I adored (a solicitor) could steal drugs that I needed to stop pain that made me want to curl up and die. Then blame me for it. I had to call my MacMillan nurse and pour my heart out to her. She said it happens all the time and after reading this forum I see it does. She asked if I wanted the police involving? I said 'not if I have to but he's finished, I'm not going to enable him.' She sorted my drugs out for me and I dumped the thieving, heartless son of a b***h despite his pleas that he needed me although I don't know why when I'm such a burden I turned him to theft and drugs. I told him if he ever darkened my door ever again I'd report what he did to the police and ruin his career. So in 2 years that's health, job and partner lost but cancer beaten! He was back within the week, by phone anyway, asking if he could urgently buy some of my tablets as he was 'sick' I agreed with him, 'yes, you really are sick. Stealing drugs from a chronically sick person. Go away and suffer, this is your inbuilt punishment. Or - go tell your GP what you've done and ask for help.' I was called heartless. As you said. My drugs do not make me high, they just ease the pain to a 3-4. On a good day a 2-3. Bad day 7-8 and then I have a fentanyl patch. I don't abuse the drugs, they are drugs of last resort for me as I tried everything else and the illness is never going to go away. I don't know where these people get the idea that morphine will shorten their lives - used as prescribed, you will live as long as your illness allows you to. Why worry about stopping the drug when it is doing you no harm? Yes, you may have a tolerance but you won't need more and more either. I've been on the same dose for 4 years. If they come up with a cure to my illness, I will worry about dependence then but at the moment, I need the drugs. If I miss a dose, the pain starts to build and build until I take it so it is very much still required. Learn the difference between dependence and addiction as they are two very different things and if you can even think about withdrawing then your pain issue clearly isn't as serious as you thought it was in the first place. As for those freely admitting to stealing drugs from relatives or friends who are chronic or terminally ill, I have not one shred of sympathy for you and I hope you do suffer as to steal from a person at the lowest point in their life makes you the lowest form of human detritus and you reap what you sow. To all those pain patients who are suffering, see your GP and discuss your pain management plan and if the drugs you are taking are the best ones for you. Best of luck. I wish you all health, wisdom and peace.
Ellie. X

take OTC (pepto bismol) for diahreah, take gravol for vomitting , any kind of benzo's if ya can get your hands on em...i( toolk 30mg of oxazepam when i would start to have the shakes! i also spent like 8$ on those 5 cent candies as the sugar seems to help with something BUT only eat candies after ya take the pepto or...they'll just go right thru ya.

i am on 5 mgs 3 times a day oramorph i had a perferated bowel with blood poisoning lucky to be here. then 5 months later a ventral hernia opit was so big they opened up the whole scar that was 13 weeks ago the pain is bad i have gradually gone from 10 mg 4 times aday to 5 mgs 3 times a day cant do it any quicker pain not so bad take paracetamel as well it helps.i want to come off morphine completly i just feel going down 1mg every 2 weeks will get me there.am i doing this right.annie.