). I hated what they did to my brain while on them, expected issues coming off after 3.5 months, but is was actually easy for me as benefits of brain working again outweighed increased pain. Good luck, whichever ways it works for you is a trial regardless I think. 
Wow
Cheers Bob.
A dentist friend told me that morphine is interesting because it does not inhibit the body's physiological reactions to pain, so as a medic he can still monitor elevated heartrate etc. However it acts upon your psychological response, in short you still experience pain but no longer give a toss.Codeine works because you turn it into morphine using an enzyme in your liver and the people for whom codeine doesn't work don't have this enzyme. Morphine though always works
A friend of mine with chronic pain says that Tramadol takes her away from the pain rather than the pain away from her. She also thinks that Sertraline is a great help, because it reduces her negative psychological response - anxiety and depression I guess - to her pain.
yes indeed. My mother has an electrical implant that suppresses chronic pain by swamping the pain receptors with pulses of electricity. A similar device was in the news this week where a kid with epilepsy had an experimental brain implant that did the same for reducing his fits.
There was something I read at school -- I can't remember if it was Xenophon or Aristotle -- where he talks about someone going to the beech to sooth their pain with an electric eel.
Mandryka, from my experience that first sentence is a very accurate description.
Thats a good description. I still sometimes use co-codamol 30mg but the full dose of 8 per day when things were bad..................
I had it in hospital and I was totally off my tits 10 minutes later. Pain? Dunno. What time is it? Dunno. You can indeed see how it's so addictive. If I were terminally ill I'd want a daily supply.
