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Posted 10/5/2007 9:24 PM (GMT -6)
After months of scanning this site and seeing all the posts complaining about the side-effects of drugs it's just dawned on me. I have never seen anyone complain about their pain meds.

Why is that? Who suffers side effects from these meds and what kinds of side effects do you suffer?

I haven't found an effective pain medication that doesn't cause me more problems than it solves. I can only use them for very short periods and for very intense pain. Any longer and I become totally non-functioning. My biggest complaint is positional nausea. As long as I lay flat I'm ok, but as soon as I stand up I get violently sick to my stomach. The only thing that helps is IM shots of gravol. The last time I was on pain meds -- after my last surgery -- I lost 15 pounds in 10 days after I got home from hospital because I needed the pain meds, but I couldn't keep anything in my stomach.

I also hate the way these meds dull my senses -- I feel like I'm walking in a fog. I also get heart palpitations and positional hypotension when using any of the morphine derivatives. I'd like to know that I'm not alone.
Posted 10/5/2007 9:35 PM (GMT -6)
Balleenstein, I wish I could give you some advice, like you did for me this morning, but I'm afraid I do well on pain meds. I can
actually have quality of life with them. Maybe you could try ones without the morphine derivatives. Maybe a codeine base.
Best of luck.
Posted 10/5/2007 10:01 PM (GMT -6)
I have the same problems with tylenol 3, which I think has codeine in it. What do you use?
Posted 10/5/2007 10:17 PM (GMT -6)
I take a 10 mg lortab once or twice daily, mainly for my arthritis pain. I never could handle strong pain meds, didn't need any unless I obstructed or had new surgery. Now I find that I can function much better and get some energy because I let it go too long, and really feel miserable before I medicate. My bp has been running higher on steroids so my bp doesn't drop too much, maybe that is what is happening to you. Can you check your bp lying and then standing? I am not sure if chronnies can take darvocet or tramadol but if so, that could be an alternative. I do know that morphine, codiene and percocet make me very nauseous/vom.
Posted 10/5/2007 10:58 PM (GMT -6)
I am okay on Tylenol #3 but I do not find that they are very effective with the pain. Percocet causes me nausea and heart palpatations but they are more effective for the pain. I find that Demerol/Gravol IM works quite well for the pain but you get that walking around in a fog feeling and I have a young daughter that I need to chase after. I do not tolerate Morphine at all. The last time that I had an injection of Morphine I was violently ill and had a massive migrane headache, it was almost worse than what I was getting the injection for. I am constantly switching up my pain meds trying to find something that works well with little side effects but I haven't come across it yet so no, you're not alone. If you happen to try something that works well you'll have to let us all know.
Posted 10/5/2007 11:06 PM (GMT -6)
Balleenstein, I take vicodin, It might be worth a try...
Posted 10/6/2007 3:18 AM (GMT -6)
Hi Belleenstein, I also take vicodin and have no-side effects from it
Posted 10/6/2007 3:50 AM (GMT -6)
I have taken bith tramadol and darvocet. Ultraset is tramadol and one other thing is in it I brlirvr it is tylenol. It is a pain med but I thinl I remember them saying it truley considered a narcotic since its components are different.
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