I have been taking morphine since 1997, although I did come off it for 2 years (05-07) but found myself having to take oxycodone IR to cope with the pain. The main problem I had once I had stopped the morphine was restless legs, it very near drove me insane. I tried requip and clonazepan, but with little effect, it was so bad, I was having major problems driving and sleeping very little.

I had an accident at home in early 08 and ended up having to go back to taking the morphine again. I have cut my dose by two thirds recently and want to try again to stop it, but the thought of going through the problems of restless legs again scares me. My pain threshold is so low after taking morphine for so long, but I really want to get away from any opiate use.

Anyone have any experience with dealing with these effects of long term opiate use?