DrugBuyers.Com: Opiate Edema

jeremiah- it sounds like you had exactly what I had.

The warning about swelling usually refers to a severe allergic reaction. Your eyelids and upper lip swell, and your throat may begin to swell shut. I've had this before. It was caused by naproxyn. Fortunately, my throat did not swell shut, I just got huge hives all over my body and the the other two symptoms. But it was bad enough that when I went into student health care, they gave me the shot as well as a steroid taper and atarax.

I'm pretty sure that CNS failure is a symptom that is less frequent in patients who fall into the "opioid tolerant" category. Or, of course, in people who happen to be allergic to a substance. . . a tylenol 4 could send a person who is allergic into heart failure. But I'm not allergic, nor am I opioid "naive" at 180mg of MS Contin a day-my blood pressure dips slightly below normal when the dose goes up,
but afterwards it always returns to about 115/75.

So it sounds like someone found the info, edema is indeed a side effect. Normally I would go straight to the PDR with such questions, because I just don't find internet sites to be all that comprehensive.

Thanks for your input guys.

Now I am just wondering if someone knows whether there is a connection between the difficulty in urination and the (one time incidence) of edema?

Doctors? Pre-doctors?

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