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Severe pain in shin bone worse when shins get cold. morphine gives 70% pain relief. ?

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What illness underly: What underlying disease do you have that requires morphine to treat? Bone pain could be metastatic cancer pain. Talk to the doctor who prescribes your morphine.

Answered 10/3/2016

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Dr. John Michalski answered

Specializes in Orthopedic Surgery

Shin pain: Consider stress fracture, referred nerve pain. Consider x-ray or other imaging to check for infection, fracture, tumor. Morphine seems like too potent a med for this.

Answered 12/9/2019

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