Tell us about your personal experience with Demerol as a treatment: Has it worked? Have you had any issues? Any recommendations or tips? http://dailystrength.org Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:39:59 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://static.dailystrength.org/v/0.11.3.0.6833.29/images/promo/logo-round-rss.gif http://dailystrength.org http://dailystrength.org/c/Pancreatitis/forum/1368-demerol-pancreatitis/lastpage Demerol for chronic pain or prescribing it for long term use. Many hospitals only use it for anesthesia. This is due to its potential to be toxic to the liver]]> Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:29:20 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Pancreatitis/forum/1368-demerol-pancreatitis/lastpage Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:25:36 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Pancreatitis/forum/1368-demerol-pancreatitis/lastpage Demerol should not be used in Pancreatitis. It causes spasm of the sphincter of Oddi (muscle at the opening of the pancreatic duct into small intestine) and could potentially worsen pain!! Just a bad idea. Definitely not used for chronic pain; has a toxic metabolite (product of breakdown of the D...]]> Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:31:07 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Pancreatitis/forum/1368-demerol-pancreatitis/lastpage avoid the use of morphine, which causes spasm of the pancreatic connection to the intestine.]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:49:03 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Pancreatitis/forum/1368-demerol-pancreatitis/lastpage Demerol for pancreatitis but was found to be"allergic" many years ago with significant nausea, vomiting, etc. Don't plan on taking it again, ever!]]> Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:58:18 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/c/Pancreatitis/forum/1368-demerol-pancreatitis/lastpage Morphine and Dilaudid have been implicated with causing spasms of the sphincter of oddi, but Demerol has not been....at least not to the extent of Morphine and Dilaudid. I in fact tried both Morphine and Dilaudid and both ended up ...]]> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:01:03 +0100