Abuse-Resistant Morphine Approved

I'm a person like you, with extreme chronic pain. Two operations, acupuncture, magnets, physical therapy.....nothing works except pain meds.

Well, guess what? I'm ALSO a person who abuses them. The very definition of pain management is addiction, but not always abuse.

I'm sorry that you're in so much pain and have trouble with your doctor. There ARE doctors who understand better and are more helpful.

As for your comments about the "good people". Hey, I'm a good person. A good person with a problem. I didn't ask for it, I didn't wake up one day and decide, hey this could be fun. It happened. I'm not proud of it, and I'm in NA doing my best every day. If you think being addicted and abusing meds is fun, think again. There is nothing fun about losing your job, your friends, your family. And don't say that addicts are "weak". It takes strength I didn't know I could ever have to do this each and every day. It's not weakness, it's addiction.

And it could just as easily be you. It's luck of the draw.

So, please. I would never consider making derogatory comments on here about different "types" of people because I don't know what their lives are like. I don't know what led them to where they are now. You might want to consider doing the same. We're not on here to hurt each other.

On a better note!

This sounds like a great advance and I'm going to ask my doctor about it if the spinal stimulator isn't effective.

I totally agree. I can see enormous benefits to the kinds of drug mechanisms that are being developed that will hopefully discourage abuse. However, making judgments on people with addiction problems is just plain wrong. Addiction is a disease that causes chronic pain of its own kind. I suggest we show the same understanding to those patients suffering from the disease and consequent pain of addiction as we do for patients suffering chronic pain caused by other diseases and conditions.

The majorty of drug abusers never suffered from pain and use the drugs for their mind altering effects and for the sake of useing the drugs for the high and yes I am sure there are people out there who became addicted by accident and that has to suck but what I read was discust over those who did it to themselves.

There are a few things that bother me about this.  It seems like the opiate pain relief will terminate as soon as the pill dissolves to the core. Can they really control which med gets delivered at which time.

The second thing is the introduction of another medication into pain sufferers regimen. We all know that every medication causes side effects so who know how the naltrexone will affect us.

I take my meds as directed and I am opposed to the new med.

I agree with you! People that want to abuse drugs WILL find a way around the "new" morphine that is supposed to be abuse proof. Personally I hate morphine, it makes me feel like shit and I don`t get the pain relief from it (in pill form) that it is supposed to do. My doctor has me on methadone and it works for me, without making me feel "screwed up" or high. But I`m also on small doses of oxycodone for "break through" pain.

 I feel that the REAL problem is the government interfering with the doctor/patient relationship and the DEA harassing doctors that are compasionate. I don`t care if some jerk out there wants to get high. As far as I`m concerned, let them. Prohibition does NOT work anyway.It just wastes MORE tax payer money and creates more problems than it stops.

i too am like you morphine does nothing for me but the methadone,oxycodone mix with an implanted baclofen pump i actually felt like a "real" person in about 6 yrs or so. i recently was legally disabled put on medicare and that stopped the "me feeling like a real person thing" i was on enbrel for RA,medicare does not cover such expensive meds then my new rheumy says oh you don't have RA. well why then did i feel GOOD,good enough to be a part of my family again while on the enbrel? but i just wanted to say i am glad there is someone else out there that is on methadone for pain,so many people think it is just for junkies trying to get off heroin. good luck hope it keeps on working.

I also have fibromyalgia and osteoarthrits. Lyrica did nothing for me and neproxen which worked made my guts bleed. I had to stop taking it because I would have bled to death internally! I would suggest asking your doctor about methadone. It works, for me without making me feel screwed up. I`m still in pain but at least I don`t feel like commiting suicide or screaming and crying or worse. And most days I can function, like mowing the lawn, etc..

That is horrible!!! I find that they Lyrica controls a lot of neuropathic pain and if I don't take it I can't even walk without feeling like I am walking on shards of glass and my hands tingle like mad as well.....I was on Naproxen for about a year and change and because I always ate before I took it, it never bothered my stomach very much. Luckily my doctors put me on the coated one as soon as I told them I was concerned about my stomach......I get shots of Marcaine in my upper back and neck twice a week and also will be starting to get more trigger point injections in my elbows due to a lot of shooting pains going down my arms at times. I just hope that this new medication will be available here in Canada ASAP! I don't want to increase my dose of Percocets much more than what I am currently taking due to the fact that I am concerned about liver damage ( I have been on them off and on for about three years now) Oxycontin scares the living bejesus out of me.....I was on Zytram for about a year and it worked wonders for me so maybe I should go back on that and maybe back on Cesamet......who knows! I asked my Rheumatologist about Vicoden and he gave me the evil eye......so that ended there!

I`m glad that Lyrica works for you! I was hoping that it would work for me too, but I have (also) the problem of drug interactions or (I`m not sure what to call it) but alot of prescribed drugs I can`t take because they screw up my body in one way or the other. I get really frustrated at times! And sometimes I feel like the best thing I could do is go out in the woods, dig a hole, jump in it and end it........ BUT- I`m not that bad YET! Close at times but I`m not "there" yet... I just wish that research would hurry up.

I also suffer from fibromyalgia,and nothing seems to work as it should.I hurt no matter what I;ve tried for almost 12 years,now.For the last couple of years I've been taking hydrocodone..7.5,but I still hurt.What it DOES do is allow me to function at work...MOST of the time.It's been pretty bad lately,and I'm wanting to stay in bed for hours again..12-24..at a time because I have NO energy and I hurt too bad to do all the things I should.I couldn't take Cymbolta,Lyrica,Celebrex..I've tried them all..believe me,and the Hydrocodone is the only one that has helped.It has no side effects,as far as a "high" like everyone else seems to get from it.Meds effect me totally different from other people,apparently.I am at the point where I need something stronger.I have a life to live and I refuse to lay down.i have a full time job as an Assistant Shift Supervisor at a detention facility,so I have to stay busy.Lots of walking involved...miles on a shift.Right now I'm hurting really bad in my back and bottom and legs.My arms hurt...even my chest lately.I had a cardiac workup a few weeks ago and it was ok.Fibromyalgia is,as my Dr. puts it,a monster!!I hate it!!ANY advice on a stronger med proven to work?This sounds good..I'm going to ask my Dr. about it.Tylenol...Naproxen...waste of time.

I was on neproxsen for about 6 months, it worked very good, I almost felt "normal" till I noticed one day that I was shitting digested blood! I had to stop taking it or I would have bled to death internally. The side effects sometimes are worse than what you are trying to cure... Some times I wish I was a horse, then I`d just get "put down" and I wouldn`t have to bother with it any more!

There are some people out there including doctors who are INSENSITIVE JERKS!!! Need I say more...I hope that someday scientists will be able to find medications that will help many people out there who are in chronic pain day in and day out......I feel for you and for all others out there who are in the same situation that we are in.....I posted a couple of comments recently in regards to Embeda and I would love to be able to take that medication even just at bedtime so I can get some sleep. I am kept awake most nights because of pain and it stinks!!!

One thing I know for sure is that talking to the doctor is good. Unless your talking about chronic pain! You have to be VERY carefull about what you say, if you are talking about being in pain all the time. Some times I wish I had just died when I got hit by a car doing 40 MPH. I wouldn`t be in pain now... I hope you find the right thing to make you feel better and  I wish a pain free day for everyone!