I lifted my mother up from the floor. I ruptured a disc and the mri showed a swollen root nerve. My pain DR. put me on a combination of Morphine and Oxicodone. A year later I began falling A HAVE FALLEN CONSTANTLY FALLING UP UNTIL dEC.23RD 2013. I TOLD MY PAIN DR TO PUT ME ON SOMETHING LESSER THAN THOSE TWO MEDS. bUT I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN FROM CONSTANT FALLS THAT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I CAN TAKE. I AM ON 10MG OF Norco AND sOMA. Thank you for answering but I don t have the money to pay for an answer
Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Wow, it's nice when the amount of narcotics is under a fatal dose. First, find out why there is falling. It is not usually from the drugs but the risk is certainly high enough to be found in clinical surveys. There can be partial paralysis from the disk. There can be dizziness or even brain injury from the fall. These are each quite uncommon, but then again, most people don't have the falls! So, something is certainly going on and it is only Most likely the medications but does not have to be from them.Then, soma has alternatives with less falling. These include chemically similar to soma robaxin and chemically quite different cyclobenzaprine(flexeril). There are other drugs like aspirin for pain that have less falling than norco, but frankly at 30 mg per day or less, I'm not sure they are even safer and they are less likely to work on the pain. One should try them just to verify the falling stops when the narcotics are not present (12 hrs after stopping them). Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.