Long-Term Opioid Use Can Increase Sensitivity to Chronic Pain
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Many people who have been taking opiates for chronic pain can develop serious problems with long-term use. Some of them may even include an addictive disorder due to prolonged exposure to these very powerful medications. Others develop tolerance to the medication and need ever increasing dose increases. Others develop a condition known as hyperalgesia.
I’m including a definition of opiate-induced hyperalgesia from Wikipedia for those of you who may be unfamiliar with this phenomenon.
"Opioid-induced hyperalgesia or opioid-induced abnormal pain sensitivity is a phenomenon associated with the long term use of opioids such as morphine, hydrocodone, Oxycodone, and methadone. Over time, individuals taking opioids can develop an increasing sensitivity to noxious stimuli, even evolving a painful response to previously non-noxious stimuli (allodynia). Some studies on animals have also demonstrated this effect occurring after only a single high dose of opioids."
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Many people who have been taking opiates for chronic pain can develop serious problems with long-term use. Some of them may even include an addictive disorder due to prolonged exposure to these very powerful medications. Others develop tolerance to the medication and need ever increasing dose increases. Others develop a condition known as hyperalgesia.
I’m including a definition of opiate-induced hyperalgesia from Wikipedia for those of you who may be unfamiliar with this phenomenon.
"Opioid-induced hyperalgesia or opioid-induced abnormal pain sensitivity is a phenomenon associated with the long term use of opioids such as morphine, hydrocodone, Oxycodone, and methadone. Over time, individuals taking opioids can develop an increasing sensitivity to noxious stimuli, even evolving a painful response to previously non-noxious stimuli (allodynia). Some studies on animals have also demonstrated this effect occurring after only a single high dose of opioids."
To read the remainder of this article please go to the link below.
http://www.freedomfromsufferingnow.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=65361&proAppName=stevegrinstead
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