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(also known as MS-Contin, MSIR, Kadian, Avinza)
Morphine is a highly potent opiate analgesic drug and is the principal active agent in opium and the prototypical opiate. Like other opiates, e.g. diacetylmorphine (heroin), morphine acts directly on the central nervous system (CNS) to relieve pain, and at synapses of the nucleus accumbens in particular. Studies done o... more at Wikipedia

Treatment Success Rate

Top 5 Communities
Condition Members Success
Chronic Pain
435
83%
Fibromyalgia
436
83%
Back Pain
230
83%
Migraine Headaches
11
91%
Lupus
7
100%
Overall, 83% (1172 Members) find Morphine helpful

Morphine Reviews

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It helps, but I'm not sure how much to be honest.....I try to remind myself of where I was prior to this med. The pain was so severe I was in the hospital.
Working / Worked
Use 90mg Avinza - life saving!
Working / Worked
But I am now stuck in the pills forever cycle!
Working / Worked
Working minimally.
Working / Worked
Helps a great deal for the pain. The side effect are horriable. I spent so many days wondering what happen. I would not know how I had gotten from one room to the other or couldn't stay awake.
Working / Worked
I don't mind taking this but I hate that feeling of being on another planet - not to mention after nearly a solid 2 months on the stuff the withdrawal and comedowns are BAD!
Working / Worked
It's great if you can take as much as you need when you need it - as long as you don't mind not being on this planet.
Although I do think you can build up resistance to it as now I think I need to take more to get the same effects.
Working / Worked
Saved my life the first days out of surgery.
Working / Worked
15 mg twice daily is giving me more relief over the past month
Working / Worked
It was working until my dr took me off all meds cuz I broke his pain mangement contract cuz I took ONE extra lyrica/
Working / Worked
It works pretty good for breakthrough pain.
Working / Worked
Only get this when I'm in the ER. Now I'm allergic to it.
Working / Worked
Use as my break/thru when pain spikes thru the methadone.
Working / Worked
Does help but may be having side effects - still monitoring
Working / Worked
AIDING can't live without it.
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Discussions

  1. Discussion: Avinza & Kadian
    Avinza is a 24 hour, time release form of Morphine. I do have experience with it and my body built up a tolerance to it and I had to quit cold turkey... [More]
  2. Discussion: Avinza & Kadian
    I took Kadian for a short while.  Had to go off it due to side effects (constipation, anxiety, ringing in ear).  Kadian is time release morphine. Be... [More]
  3. Discussion: MS Contin?
    Hi Kitty,I take 30mg of this every 12hrs and then I take 10mg lortab a few times in between.I like it because it doesnt put me in a drug fog or hurt m... [More]
  4. Discussion: MS Contin?
    I was taking this, and at the time (I had never had anything this strong before) but my doc also put me on Lyrica....so my head was all messed up, and... [More]
  5. Discussion: MS Contin?
    Has anyone in this group ever taken MS Contin? Please tell me about it if you have. It is called Morphine Sulfate in it's generic form. My Doc prescri... [More]

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