I have been diagnosed with Osteoporosis in the spine and hips, 3 old fractures of the spine, osteoarthritis of 3 vertabrae, a slight bulging disc and rheumatoid arthritis. I was on 40mg Zomorph a day, 500mg paracetamol 2 x 3 times a day. Zomorph is the most disgusting medication on the planet, I constantly feel sick, have no appetite and feel drowsy all the time. I thought enough is enough, it's bad enough still having the pain,but to have the side effects on top of it is not good. I started trawling the internet for chemical free remedies and came across Magnesium oil. I am a natural sceptic, but thought hey why not give it a go. It says that it helps with pain and helps you to sleep. I can only sleep on my right hand side and I wake up every hour with excruciating pain in my right shoulder because I am sleeping in a funny position. Friday night I sprayed the oil on my shoulder and slept through from 9pm - 5.45 am. When I got up I found that my back pain had decreased and I didn't feel sick. I felt a bit drowsy, but had an hour's sleep in the afternoon and woke up fine. Saturday I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thought maybe it was just be a fluke and tried it again last night. Slept from 10pm - 6.45 (woke up once at 4.45 but went straight back to sleep). This morning no nausea and pain in back decreased again, also don't feel drowsy. I am now going to decrease the morphine by 10mg and see how I get on with that. I am not saying I have found a micracle cure, but at the moment it's working for me. Anything that will help me cut down on the morphine is good enough for me
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Hi Lara, I have been on morphine in one form or other for many, many years. I have tried other narcotics and opiates along with an assortment of physio, exercise, acupuncture etc. Eventually I had a drug pump fitted and I am on a constant supply of Hydromorphine (7X stronger than morphine) I still have some pain but it is greatly reduced and quite liveable with it. I also have (Oxynorm) as a breakthrough control.
What I am saying is that everything may work for a time but you have to be given expert treatment and guidance by a specialist in pain control, NOT just a GP.
What works for you is fine but perhaps you also need to change your morphine as well. Always err on the side of caution.
Depending on where you live, you could go to the closest neurological centre for a complete assessment. I go to the Walton Centre, Liverpool. I have seen miracles walk out of there.
Hi Clive, I’m with the Walton centre under Dr Chawla! I’m finding it very unhelpful as I’ve been to physio twice and saw Dr nearly 2 weeks ago, that’s when he gave me the Buprenorphine which is useless!
I can’t walk because of the pain, my whole spine is affected but I’ve been told I have to have lots of physio before I can join the full course so it looks like it’s going to be a very very long time! And right now I feel like they are doing nothing for me so I may as well stop going! It’s just too much for me trying to get there in the first place!
Hi Lynne, sorry to hear that but don’t give up. Physio is very good and will help eventually. What strength of morphine are you on? You can always increase the strength. Phone his secretary and tell her the problem, explain your pain on a scale of 1-10. Be specific and if you are not satisfied ask for a second opinion. I am under Mr. Farah.
Hi thanks for your reply, I’m off all morphine now but I was on 400mg of Zomorph and 10mg of oramorph when needed. But he’s taken them off me and given me something else that doesn’t work, so I’m waiting again for him to decide what to give me!
Hi Lara, I’ve been on Zomorph and Oramoph! But my pain consultant said he wanted me off all opioids! So I reduced them and came off them, he has now just given me Buprenorphine 200mgX2, 3 times a day, they are a synthetic opioid! Problem is they don’t touch my pain!
But my GP said not all painkillers work for everyone so now I’m back to square one!
But I must admit the Zomorph and oramorph was helping some, but he said the side effects are terrible with them so I agreed to come off them.
Well these new tablets are way worse than morphine, so I’m glad I’m not staying on them! But like I said not all painkillers suite everyone so your Zomorph is not sounding like it’s agreeing with you and if I was you I would come off it and ask for something else.
I’ve also tried tramadol, amitriptline, pregablin (which sent me psychotic) plus others over the years I can’t even remember now lol
But keep up with the oil (I’m going to buy some now) even with the new painkillers if they give you some! Take care hun. Regards Lynne.
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