I just quit taking morphine - ask me anything!

[Jonte_1979]

This is my first "ask me anything" thread so please be gentle.

[sasquatch]

1. Why were you taking morphine?

:shrug:

[Jonte_1979]

2. I have been in a lot of pain

I had a trachestomy done back in '96 and it did not work out the way the doctors had expected... at all.

[sasquatch]

3. Ouch!! I hope you feel better

that sounds painful.

[Jonte_1979]

4. I am

Thanks for your concern.

[roughsatori]

5. You have been taking morphine for 6 years?

Every day?

I hope you are doing this with your doctors knowledge.

My father stooped his oxy-contin on his own after 9 months and on the third say his mind snapped. He was hallucinating wildly and it was only then that I counted his pills, and he told me he was stopping on his own. We had to get him immediate help.

[Jonte_1979]

6. Just for 2 and a half years

I have cut down gradually per the instructions of my doctor.

[roughsatori]

7. Good, I was on 85 milligrams of methadone for 5 years

I got off it in the hospital. I was just worried that you might be doing it on your own--good luck.

[sam sarrha]

8. Just be thankful that you dont have to quit smoking, i hear it's 5X as

hard as harion...thats why almost 500,000 people every year would rather die than quit! I quit after 20 years of trying again after every pack... i finally quit by learning to meditate... it just fell away.