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When you are given pain medication and you take it for pain, you may build up a tolerance.
When you take pain medication and are not feeling pain, you may build up an addiction.
Addiction is a psychological issue. Tolerance is a physical issue.
In laymans' terms, if you are taking pain medication when in pain, it binds to and affects the pain receptors. If the pain receptors aren't currently needing medication or blocking, your brain gets happy feeling and it's not being used by the receptors to block pain, but to bring a pleasurable feeling. It's easy to enjoy.
If the medications are no longer working on the pain, you may have built a tolerance. Morphine and dilaudid can have a tolerance effect over time. You need to talk openly with your prescribing MDs about the medications that they are giving you for pain.
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