Morphine Sulfate Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Morphine Sulfate ER, Morphine Sulfate IR (MSIR)
See also: Morphine Pump
What is Morphine Sulfate?
Morphine is an opiate drug used to treat moderate-severe pain. It is available in immediate action and extended release preparations for different delivery routes including liquid, tablets, injectable, and continuous pump infusion. Constipation is a common side effect of any opiate medication.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Pain | 51 |
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| Other | 6 |
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| Pain: mid-back (bra-strap area) | 3 |
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| Pain in spine that radiates out | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 2 | 0 | |||||
| headache | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Morphine Sulfate. See all 32 dosages ►
| 10mg as needed | 10ml as needed | 15 mg all the time (24/7) | 15mg as needed | 2mg as needed | 30 mg all the time (24/7) | 30mg as needed | 3.75mg as needed | 40 mg all the time (24/7) | 4mg as needed | 50mg as needed | 60 mg as needed | daily | 10 mg daily | 10 mg one time | 15 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 45 mg daily | 60 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 80 mg daily | 90 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 120 mg daily | 120 mL daily | 180 mg daily | 3 x 60 mg/24 hours daily | 200 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 800 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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6 | 35% |
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Side effects too severe
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5 | 29% |
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Other
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3 | 18% |
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Personal research
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2 | 12% |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 6% |
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Expense
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1 | 6% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 6% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 16 patient evaluations
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- Flowers
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: severe
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- Flowers
- 15 mg daily
- since Dec 31, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips This is the only pain med that I've found that really works for me. Most of the pain meds will pep me up too much. I react the opisite to most of the pain m... See full evaluation
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- pontiac
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- pontiac
- 90 mg daily
- since Oct 20, 2009
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Efficacy
Slight
for Pain
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips seemed to work mildly for pain and except for waking up in the middle of sleep not being able to swallow i was o.k. with taking this medication !! See full evaluation
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- StandUpLong
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- StandUpLong
- daily
- since Jan 23, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips most definatley do anema's and softeners so you don't get impacted . Keep clear fluids in you as often as possible . See full evaluation
See all 16 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.