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Originally Posted by Stare At The Sun
This is a semi-related thing, they gave me morphine, and it did like *nothing* for my pain. Painkillers do work for me, as I'm on vicodine right now, and feel fine, but morphine did nothing for me. I didn't even think that was possible.
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From what I understand, both morphine and vicodin (hydrocodone) are opiates that attach to CNS receptors. While morphine is pound-for-pound "stronger" than hydrocodone, most forms of synthetic hydrocodone contain some form of fever-reducer/non-steroidal anti-inflammatory like acetaminophen or acetylsalicylic acid.
If I had to guess, I'd say that it's the anti-inflammatory/fever-reducers that are what's making the difference as one of the main symptoms of viral meningitis is inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. But this is all an uneducated guess as I'm still in my second year of pre-med and wont be studying pharmacology for a while.