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Meds, Medical Conditions, and Treatment >> Meds, Medical Conditions, and Treatment

magnumopus
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Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick!
      01/19/04 08:02 PM

Most find codeine a good pain killer and quite fun to take. However, about 7% of people lack a key liver enzyme that converts codeine into morphine in the body, and these unlucky souls find codeine just makes them sick. Coincidentally, the enzyme used by the human body to covert codeine to morphine, CYP2D6, is also one of the 2 liver enzymes that are key to metabolizing dextromethorphan. Without the proper CYP2D6 gene, almost no codeine is converted to morphine, which makes for a hellish, unpleasant experience.

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* Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! M4A3 01/19/04 01:05 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! M4A3   01/31/04 08:34 AM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! sjm   02/01/04 09:04 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! PrivateRealm   01/20/04 01:52 AM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! actonbell   01/19/04 06:18 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! mrscoach   01/19/04 08:15 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! magnumopus   01/19/04 08:02 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! potatoboy99   01/19/04 08:18 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! M4A3   01/19/04 09:00 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! potatoboy99   01/20/04 02:56 AM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! voyager   01/20/04 05:24 AM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! bhamdave   01/19/04 09:09 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! M4A3   01/19/04 09:18 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! bhamdave   01/19/04 09:27 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! potatoboy99   01/19/04 01:21 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! M4A3   01/19/04 01:42 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! potatoboy99   01/19/04 01:55 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! M4A3   01/19/04 01:58 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! potatoboy99   01/19/04 02:45 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! night_shade   01/19/04 02:17 PM
. * * Re: Codeine / Paracetamol Making Me Sick! manoman   01/19/04 01:15 PM

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