[joglynne]

Originally Posted by peanut

I couldn't take morphine for more than 2 days in a row before my bowels just completely stops working which for Crohn's is obviously not good. I do get really violent headaches with morphine as well which being slow release you have to just grin and bear it for the duration of the time on it, but more often than not the headaches are far more painful that the pain you're taking the morphine for.

I'll give anything a try, just hoping the GP is okay prescribing it as it's not the cheapest form of pain relief going. Though saying that I can't take laxatives (with morphine) with Crohn's so I don't think they'll have much choice. (Hopefully)

Hopefully your GP will not baulk at the cost. The main selling point of Targinact is the combination of the two elements act as a equaliser to counteract the bunging up effects of opioid painkillers.

Constipation is one of the main side effects associated with opioid painkillers such as oxycodone. It occurs because the oxycodone also acts on opioid receptors that are found in the gut, and this slows down the muscular contractions of the intestines.

Naloxone is included in Targinact tablets to counteract this side effect of oxycodone. It works by blocking the action of oxycodone on the opioid receptors in the gut.

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/aches-and...targinact.html

Having just read through the above link fingers crossed that you don't get the headaches recurring as before. <hugs>