Diving on Morphine. Please read!

[divemed]

Is not the known that will hurt you, but rather the unexpected. Pain relievers and relaxants are designed to do just that. Not enough, and you will hurt. "Just enough" and you will be comfortable. "Too much" and you won't be diving anyway. My concern is that your ability to make clear, instant decisions at depth may be affected. For you, diving at 60 ft with Neurontin and morphine on board may be similar to others diving at 130+ ft (narcosis). Only you can decide that. Those medications by themselves are not prohibitive to diving, just like they are not prohibitive to driving a car. It depends on how you handle it.

 

[miguel sanz]

"Isn't morphine a narcotic? I don't care if only some people exeperience side effects from it. I wouldn't be comfortable with a buddy that was taking a controlled substance. Sorry. "
I´m sorry, but this arguments remind me of religious fundamentalism.
Only two little things:
1. Opiods are very good drugs for chronic pain control, used every day by thousands of patients, many of them doing a pretty normal life.
2. Any drug has side effects, some of them unpredictable, so it should be forbiden to dive while taking any drug, right?
3. Aspirine is the drug wich kills more people in the world every year.

Please, be more open minded.
Once this said; of course this poor guy should take in account all the problems added to diving in his condition and decide if he wants to take some more risk. Dive carefully.