Originally Posted by PurpleFoot721

Debi,

I was referring to MS Contin - Morphine Sulfate Continuous in particular, a brand of morphine ER

It is my understanding that it is slowly released over a 6-8 hour time frame. I think I read somewhere that it has about a 7 hour half life but I am not sure about that. Part of my problem was I did not think it was helping me much. When I tried to go off of it, I started to have withdrawal symptoms when I started taking them every 12 hours and also realized that it was helping. Going through mild withdrawal twice a day on top of having to deal with the high amount of pain for a few hours before I the next pill started to help again was not much fun. It was still better when I ended up going for 2 days without it at all. After those 2 horrible days, my PM had me go back on it titrating back up to 4x a day. We tried 3x a day, but that was not working either.

We all have different rates at which our bodies process our medications. Hopefully 30 mg every 12 hours works well for you. If you start having any problems, whether it is pain from SFN, or even a really bad headache, shaking, muscle aches, that seems to come on the same time every day, don't be afraid to bring them up with your PM.