Morphine & Tramadol

BlunderWoman

BlunderWoman

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When I had my gall bladder attack I was in bad pain. I was wondering why the nurse had never given me anything for pain even though it had been a long while. I asked him why he wasn't giving me anything and just leaving me in agony. He said " I've given you morphine twice. I can't give you more I'll over dose you!" So they ended up giving me something else that worked finally until it was time for surgery.

I have bottles of Tramadol just sitting in my drawer I never used because it has no affect on my pain whatsoever.

I'm wondering why morphine and tramadol have no affect on me & do not even make me drowsy. I have never been a drug user, you would think they would work.

2 benadryl will knock me out.

1 Tylenol PM will knock me out

Go figure
 

That is strange! :) But I believe you. They are both very addicting narcotics... ... Lord have mercy, you could sell them on the streets and make a fortune! :eek: NOT advising that, however! Chuckle... But, its true that our systems are all so different.
 
Morphine is a lot stronger and more addictive than tramadol. Tramadol is usually a step-down drug. When I dislocated my shoulder in '14, they gave me IV morphine -- it helped, but it wore off so fast. They had to keep giving me more, and then a big fat booster before they jerked my arm back in place. They told me the amount of morphine they had given me should have made me pretty out of it, but it didn't and it still took a couple or three people to hold me down so they could put it back into place and I still hollered my head off while they were doing it. INSTANT relief when they got it back into place.

That shoulder was the most painful thing I've experienced, worse than a badly smashed elbow and worse than labor.
 

Everybody reacts differently that's very true. My husband was given a codeine mix for pain. He took one and got deathly ill with vomiting...just couldn't stop. Since then I've taken a few when my ankle gets really bad, in fact I have my own prescription for the same dose. They really don't seem to do anything for me one way or the other.
 
So then it's not as unusual as I thought after reading Butterfly & Furs stories. That's interesting.
 
I got a prescription for Percodan after surgery once. Boy, did that stuff put me in la-la land. I don't know if it actually did anything for the pain, but I didn't care. I just didn't care. I was somewhere else.....

I got Tramadol last year for my back. Didn't do much for the pain.

Codeine makes me nauseated. Really nauseated.

We talked earlier about Versed. Oh, Versed. I could get real attached to Versed.
 
When I had shingles back in 2012 I was given Morphine iv and pill form. Worked fine then they changed me to gabapentin for 2 years. That was for the nerve pain. I had shingles on my face and eye.. Dreadful and I was in agony..
 
Tramadol (synthetic) is not a true opioid, but is classified as a weak antagonist. It is hard to believe that some people can take morphine and not be effected by it, but it does happen. Morphine is a very strong antagonist and is a true opioid. Morphine is found in Hydrocodone (Vicodin), Oxycodone (Percocet) and Dilaudid (Hydromorphone), which are all the most common forms that are being prescribed today by healthcare professionals. Morphine acts on the brain's neurotransmitters by blocking pain signals. Many, many people that have taken any form of Morphine for an extended period of time have become addicted to the drug.

Morphine does fail to work on an estimated 3% of the population. In these case, doctors have been known to increase the amount given and in turn have found it to paradoxically increase the pain. Go figure. I would venture to guess that some people's neurotransmitters just do not respond to the drug (narcotic). Sometimes, doctors will prescribe a Benzodiazepine like, Xanax or Ativan, both of which are also highly addictive to relieve pain by relaxing muscles, nerves, etc.

Last word, none of these drugs are anything to mess with. If you don't need them, don't take them. Try instead a good NASID, like Ibuprofen, Naproxen or even Aspirin.
 
Arachne said:
When I had shingles back in 2012 I was given Morphine iv and pill form. Worked fine then they changed me to gabapentin for 2 years. That was for the nerve pain. I had shingles on my face and eye.. Dreadful and I was in agony..
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OMG that must have truly been agony. I'm sorry you had to endure that.
 
oldman said:
Tramadol (synthetic) is not a true opioid, but is classified as a weak antagonist. It is hard to believe that some people can take morphine and not be effected by it, but it does happen. Morphine is a very strong antagonist and is a true opioid. Morphine is found in Hydrocodone (Vicodin), Oxycodone (Percocet) and Dilaudid (Hydromorphone), which are all the most common forms that are being prescribed today by healthcare professionals. Morphine acts on the brain's neurotransmitters by blocking pain signals. Many, many people that have taken any form of Morphine for an extended period of time have become addicted to the drug.

Morphine does fail to work on an estimated 3% of the population. In these case, doctors have been known to increase the amount given and in turn have found it to paradoxically increase the pain. Go figure. I would venture to guess that some people's neurotransmitters just do not respond to the drug (narcotic). Sometimes, doctors will prescribe a Benzodiazepine like, Xanax or Ativan, both of which are also highly addictive to relieve pain by relaxing muscles, nerves, etc.

Last word, none of these drugs are anything to mess with. If you don't need them, don't take them. Try instead a good NASID, like Ibuprofen, Naproxen or even Aspirin.
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I don't know if it increased my pain..but my pain increased. I was given the Tramadol after I fractured my neck. I never did use it because it has no affect at all, it's like I never took a pill at all. Now I use aleve. That's all I take for pain now.
 
BlunderWoman said:
I don't know if it increased my pain..but my pain increased. I was given the Tramadol after I fractured my neck. I never did use it because it has no affect at all, it's like I never took a pill at all. Now I use aleve. That's all I take for pain now.
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Alleve is good. We don't have it in the UK, at least not by that brand name. But I use Ibuprofen when I have muscle pain and it works great.
 

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