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Old Dec 28, 2007, 01:50 AM
GoodMama GoodMama is offline
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Don't know if it's too late, but I'd contact your pharmacist! When I first started at my pain clinic, my initial urinalysis came back as positive for morphine. I hadn't had morphine since high school and that was ... OK, OK ... it was 42 years ago! LOL! Turns out that with long-time use of codiene meds, the body converts them to morphine. Made me feel better ... especially at the next visit when my CNA said she'd gotten books and researched the test results ...and I said I'd asked the pharmacist!

BTW, she (the CNA) knew about the Tylenol3 and the occasional oxycodone which I had been taking since my accident in 1987. I started at the clinic because my doctor wouldn't prescribe more than 30 oxy in 90 days and I hurt more than that! They did an xray at the clinic and found I'm walking bone-on-bone, plus my pelvis is frozen from years of walking unevenly and I have severe peripheral neuropathy in both feet/legs . Now the only argument I have is taking as much as she thinks I should!

Aren't pain clinics grand? I never knew I was in so much pain until I finally had enough meds to take the edge off. For those who don't know ... pain meds to not take away ALL the pain, they take away enough so we can continue to function.

Hope this helps and that you're well on your way to functioning better, too!

GoodMama ... chronic pain since May 17, 1987
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