The reason I ask is just about every time I've taken a pain medication (Vicodan, Percocet, etc.) I get nauseous and usually vomit many times during the day. I was given morphine recently for a back injury and although it worked wonders on relieving the pain, I was so sick to my stomach and was vomiting for the next 24 hours. I'm still not sure if it was from the meds or if I had contracted a 24 hour bug or what. Is the nausea and vomiting normal or could I be in-tolerant?
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Rajive Goel
6 Oct 2010
Tolerance to a drug is defined as the failure of a steady dose of the drug over time, to sustain the desired pharmacological effect, i.e., the need to increase the drug dosage to maintain the original pharmacological effect. Tolerance can occur with a wide variety of drugs, including opioids. Tolerance to the analgesic effects of opioids occur slowly.
Nausea could be due to the side effects of the meds that you take, you must seek medical advice from the doc who prescribed the meds, so that he/she could either alter or change the dose, take care, be well & safe.
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6 Oct 2010
bkelsey, opiate-tolerant means that you have been taken the pain medicine for a while now and your body has built up a tolerance to the pain meds, which would mean you SHOULD NOT be getting sick? In my opinion, it sounds like the pain meds are making you sick therefore your body is not used to anything like this and the pain meds are too strong for you. Most of the time you will get sick if you are not used to taking any kind of pain meds. Hope this helps!
bkelsey
6 Oct 2010
Thanks for your answers, now I understand! So I guess it is a normal reaction because I don't take pain meds very often.
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6 Oct 2010
Exactly! Best of Luck to you!
how long
6 Oct 2010
If you need anything else, all you have to do is ask and someone will get back to you.
Also if you want to, you can take Phenergan and that will keep you from getting sick. But the down side of it, is it makes you drowsy. But it does help!
oxyaaron
13 Nov 2010
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Right as rain Rajive. I'm still surprised at what OOTC meds are available in bulk. Keep up the wonderful work you do to help people understand.
Thanks, Chris, it gives me immense pleasure to help people, take care..