Codeine May Make Your Headache WORSE?
Codeine . It's in our cough medicine. We take it when we're in pain. It's been around since forever. But what if it made you feel worse ? "Using large and frequent doses of the pain-killer codeine may actually produce heightened sensitivity to pain, without the same level of relief offered by morphine, according to new research from the University of Adelaide ," as reported by newswise.com. The Web site quotes the University's Professor Paul Rolan , a headache specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, who says codeine has been widely used as a pain reliever for more than 100 years, "but its effectiveness has not been tested" in this way before. "In the clinical setting, patients have complained that their headaches became worse after using regular codeine, not better," Professor Rolan tells newswise.com. "Codeine use is not controlled in the same way as morphine, and as it is the most widely used strong pain reliever