Harrybaby666 said:
...actually though, I wanted to ask you if the morphine is actually better than the methadone, or does it matter?...
Haven't a clue, although I think it's longer-lasting than other opiates. That's why they give it to junkies to help them stay off heroin - they only need to take one dose a day.
Anyway, morphine and methadone, like heroin and methadone, are cross-tolerant. Which is a fancy way of saying that if you've become addicted to morphine your doc can switch you to methadone without you going into withdrawal.
Are you addicted to morphine? Probably. Are you a junkie? Nope. Too bad the terms "addict" and "addiction" carry so much negative baggage. Junkies give addicts a bad name!
Our bodies' responses to drugs are pretty idiosyncratic, and medicine is actually a pretty primitive science. Within fifty years I imagine folks will be chuckling when they think back to the days that you couldn't just do a simple blood test to determine the best medication for a particular person.
One of the most important things I learned when I was a mental health worker is that determining medication regimens is done on an empirical basis. "Empirical" is a word that docs use to make it sound like they know what they're doing. What it really means is that you try one drug, fool around with the dosage a bit, try another drug, fool around with the dosage a bit, try another, etc., etc., etc. until you figure out through trial-and-error what the best medication regimen is for that individual patient.
Point of all that yattering being that if your current pain med regimen isn't working, tell your doc and he can try something else from his pharmacological bag of tricks 'til the doc and you eventually figure out the optimal regimen for you.
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