Wondering about breakthrough medications outside of the morphine family

[Kira45]

My partner has Crohn's and gets a Remicade injection every 6 weeks. This has done wonders for his overall pain, but he still has an attack about once a month. When these happen, he takes 4-6 mgs of morphine sulfate for the pain. He reacts terribly to it - severe itchiness, sweating, runny nose, puffy face/eyes, difficulty breathing. He's clearly allergic to it. The discomfort keeps him awake for days, and after a couple of sleepless nights in this state he's a rambling, crazy mess. But his GP has told him there isn't much available for him outside the morphine family, at least not without going into a much stronger family of drugs. He was on hydromorph before with pretty much the same results; I'm sure anything morphine-based won't work. What other options does he have??

 

[KayleighMeek]

Sorry to hear your husband is going through a tough time I find it hard taking anything that is morphine based like tramadol and it's only until I get to the desperate stage I take it. I'm sorry I don't know of any current alternatives but I was reading this article the other day about black mamba venom having a pain killing property the same strength as morphine so maybe this might be something in future they will develop. Here's the link to the article i found it an interesting read http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19812064
For my joint pain I take co-codamol prescription strength and this takes the edge off he pain for me still hurts but makes it more bearable. Hope he gets some releif soon x