My wife is seeing a pain doctor due to back problems. She has COPD and cannot have an operation as her family doctor says it would be to risky and could kill her. She has been having a lot of pain in fact she told her pain doctor on a scale of 1 to 10 it was a 10 yesterday. she went to see the pain doctor and the assistant for the doctor she saw said they were going to consolidate her pain meds into one medicine. She had been taking Morphine 30mg 60 tablets a month and oxycodone 10mg 90 tablets a month for pain. she would alternate morphine every 6 hours with oxycodone every 6 hours. Now the doctor put her on oxycodone 10mg 90tabs a month every 8 hours and had deleated the morphine. Why would he drop the medicine this low without increasing the amount of oxycodone to 120 or 150 tablets so she can continue taking her meds every 6 hrs instead of every 8 which probable is not going to be enough to kill most of the pain.