Taking Morphine And Norco In The Same Day (Top voted first)

My brother takes 30 mg morphine tablets by prescription every 12 hours. He complains that he is in pain all of the time anyway, even though they are better than the norco 10 mg that he was taking before. My sister-in-law takes norco 10 mg, 6 per day, and he has been begging her to give him 2 - a - day to take in between his morphine. He has, of course, not told his doctor. I want to know what combining these two will do to him? Thanks

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To everyone suffering from under treated pain we have advocate groups that are fighting for our rights such as in the face of pain & pain matters. There are petions to the president please if you wish to preserve our rights. Sign. To Jasmine. I wish you could feel what one of us feels with the meds & see if you can last 10 minutes with out. Ignorance in your case is hurting people. Try a little compassion.

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GO AWAY JASMINE!! WE DON'T NEED YOU YELLING AT US WITH YOUR FRICKIN CAPS LOCK ON!! I CAN SEE YOU ARE FROM DRUG JUSTICE LEAGUE AND PROBABLY BELIEVE THE WAR ON DRUGS IS ACCOMPLISHING SOMETHING.

YOU OBVIOUSLY AREN'T IN PAIN AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THESE MEDICATIONS, SO WE WOULD ALL APPRECIATE YOU KEEPING YOUR IGNORANT OPINIONS TO YOURSELF!

I know from personal experience....I've gone through 6-7 surgeries over that past decade and have been on opiates for as long as 3 years. At my highest level I was taking 120mg OxycontinER and 60mg Roxicodone per day & there are others that need more. I asked for help getting off and unfortunately just had a double neck fusion C6/C7/T1....

No one asks for this and I truly wish your brother-n-law the best of luck! Tell him he needs to re-evaluate his condition. You definitely don't want to build a tolerance without the doctor knowing or it WILL appear as drug seeking behavior and he will get nothing.

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Nothing will happen to him, but he needs to consult his dr and let him know that the pain meds prescribed to him is not helping with the pain. I've been a pain patient for 10 years and your body builds a tolerance and after a while your meds need changing or altering. Or possibly like myself given a pain patch in addition to the pills for breakthrough pain. I wouldn't make it a habit of giving him your pain meds, he really needs to talk to his doctor about his pain

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Doctors think everyone is looking for drugs to feel high, people are dying in pain because of these Drs. Wake Up, they're dying, keep them comfortable.

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First of all morphine by mouth is weak only 10 percent actually gets used in the body! Second his doctor should be prescribing him break thru medication and no 2 hydrocodones will not likely hurt him however if his doctor pee tests him he will get likely cut off and get nothing. I strongly urge him to go back to his doctor and pleade his case for better pain control.

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No,the DOCTOR will ABSOLUTLY NOT write a RX for 30mg of oxycodone!! This dose must be worked up to,it is THE STRONGEST dose of IR oxy available! If he writes for ANYTHING like that it will be around 5 or 10mg,max 4 per day..... HOUSE...

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Hi, your brother needs to ask his Doctor to prescribe him something for his break thru pain!! I know, I have been on pain medication for years now, and you definitely need a fast acting pain Med. For the break thru pain. His Dr. Will understand he just needs to let him or her know that the long acting morphine isn't working for his pain alone!!

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I was on Morphine for pain every 12 hours. With Percocet for four times a day for breakthrough pain. I ended up with a problem with the morphine which my body just did not want to absorb absorb. that was changed the morphine that is to Opana every 12 hours 20 milligrams and then 4 Percocet tens for breakthrough pain and it has not been a problem for me I understand your concern you just have to check with the doctor as to what you are capable of taking

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I am currently on 15 mg twice a day morphine & it does nothing for my pain, it does help me sleep. I was on Norco 10 mg for years & I honestly think the norcos worked better for my pain. It's different for each individual. But he really needs to talk to his doc before he combines the two meds.

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Sorry madman, just been one of those days....

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He has broken his back three times, with fusion surgery afterwards, He also broke his neck and had to have some fusion. He has also broken most of the bones in his body, He is unable to walk upright, but must bend over in a bow almost 90'. He spent a year in a body cast. He has also had multiple operations for various reasons, Heart attacks, colon problems, colon cancer ( in remission ) so I think he has plenty of reasons to be in pain. Even shortly after taking his morphene, he is moaning with pain. The only real relief he gets is when he sleeps. He has decided, after getting back from his recent 3 week hospital stay, that he wants to go DNR. I would appreciate leaving off the negative comments.

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Greetings. I take both with no problems for two years. In fact, I take HysinglaER 120 and MSIR 30. As long as he does not over do the Norco, no need to worry about your brother. I have used the fast and slow release with zero negative effects. Good luck.

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Morphine is a slow acting medicine so yes, he probably needs something for breakthrough pain. I hate how people have abused the system and now make it harder for those who really need it. No where do i see that he is abusing his medications. If he was then he'd obviously be taking more of the morphine in appropriate ways. But jumping on him and screaming addict isn't the answer.

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Chugalong fear not! He will probably be okay since many doctors usually do prescribe the Morphine for every 12hrs along with Norco or another short acting opiate for breakthrough pain...

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Actually his doctor should be giving him some of those for break through pain, the morphine is an extended release tablet and should not be the sole medicine he takes for pain.

For your actual question - combining the 2 should help his pain.

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I'm sure they meant 6 x 5mg/day which is standard prescribing procedure for someone who has a small tolerance built up. Take it easy House!!

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Sounds like he needs rehab for his body the opiates will no longer work after a whileI was on pain medicine for a long time because I broke my back in two places pain med stopped working I stop taking pain meds and got on Suboxone it works much better for pain

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FYI: The in the face of pain's website closed down last year. I have yet to find a dr that is more interested in helping you with your pain than they are protecting their own ass. I recently when to a pain center and spent ten minutes with the dr who ordered an mri and then they set an appt for a month from now. We did not really even discuss possible options that could help with major ongoing back pain. Pain pills help a little but never have completely controlled the pain after surgery years ago. He was much more interested in making sure I did a U/A and I was not even asking him to prescribe pain meds but just any additional alternatives. The mri was done the next day & now I just wait. I wish him good luck finding someone who will help but don't share meds.

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My niece took like 6 or 8, 10 milligrams of hydro and put on one of those morphine pain patches and she always took a lot of hydros. She had a heart attack and died at 47 last year, so tell him to be very careful. Pain is better than death. Sometimes it don't feel that way I know cuz I'm in pain daily and nobody will even give me 5 milligrams of s*** but it's sure better than death.

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If you have never been in chronic pain ..you have no idea what it's like. There are times when you feel so useless...and people down you saying suck it up..or you just wanna feel high. Severe chronic pain makes you feel so incapacitated to the pain that death will at least make it go away. Don't judge unless you've been through it.

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