Hi Jim and @lorirenee1, hope today brings some relief and blessings for both of you beautiful people. Jim, I too am on Morphine. I 'm allowed to have more than I'm taking but have done several tapers, 5mg at a time, over the years only bc I've had such brutal post-op recoveries and I know I am facing more surgeries. They are too afraid of respiratory suppression so ehen patients are already taking morphine or other opiates they can't give as much as they would and what the patients really need for that specific post-op pain. I have textbook PTSD Sxs from being in the recovery room for up to 5.5 hours crying out and begging for relief. I am so afraid of having to go through that again. I cry thinking about it. There's so much opiophobia out there now that there is some degree of substandard care going on. Now that Gabapentin is being used in hospitals for pain relief, I think that will help me.

I can't even imagine what it feels like not to hurt. I study people on TV and everywhere trying to comprehend how they can be moving about doing all kinds of physical activities with smiles on their faces.

Jim I hope the Cymbalta works for you you. They say to give these type of drugs about 3 weeks to see how they work. Often doses must be adjusted. I'm sure you know this.

Ooops I forgot to see what the topic of this discussion is. Hope I didn't go off too much.

Take care and warmest wishes for you both, Sunnyflower