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Should My Mother Tapper Off Morphine If She Is Suffering From Hashimoto S Disease?

My mother has suffered for 15 years with many health issues. She has been on Morphine for 10+ years and was recently diagnosed with Hashimoto s disease. In order to treat this properly, her doctor recommended she tapper off of the Morphine. What should we expect and how can I help?
Sat, 1 Mar 2014
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Hello,

Morphine is an opioid frug which is a sedative and has analgesic properties. It can reduce motility of stomach and intestine sometimes and in that case, Thyroxine ( medicine used in Hashimoto's disease) absorption could be a problem. Other problem is that, when one has a severe form of HAshimoto's hypothyroidism called Myxedema then there could be breathing issues hich could get wosen with concurrent use of Morphine.

Otherwise, in simple uncomplicated Hashimoto's disease, i dont see any problem usuing Morphine.
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Should My Mother Tapper Off Morphine If She Is Suffering From Hashimoto S Disease?

Hello, Morphine is an opioid frug which is a sedative and has analgesic properties. It can reduce motility of stomach and intestine sometimes and in that case, Thyroxine ( medicine used in Hashimoto s disease) absorption could be a problem. Other problem is that, when one has a severe form of HAshimoto s hypothyroidism called Myxedema then there could be breathing issues hich could get wosen with concurrent use of Morphine. Otherwise, in simple uncomplicated Hashimoto s disease, i dont see any problem usuing Morphine.