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Does pain medication affect immune system / increase infections?

Hi there fellow Scope community members!
So something I've wondered for a while and I'd appreciate all input even 'just' your own experiences....
Do you think that opiate medications like codeine, oramorph can affect how many minor illnesses you get.
I've noticed I've definitely had a massive increase of infections that require antibiotics and minor illnesses since requiring such medications....
And while watching ER (hospital TV show from the 90s...absolutely absorbing.... Great pain distraction) Dr Ross (aaahhh bless him... Do you remember when George Clooney was new on the scene?... I was always more of a Dr Green girl myself.... But I digress... Sorry)
So yeah Dr Ross was talking to a mum of a kid taking oramorph and they implied that this was why her son was having more chest infections.
What do you think?
So something I've wondered for a while and I'd appreciate all input even 'just' your own experiences....
Do you think that opiate medications like codeine, oramorph can affect how many minor illnesses you get.
I've noticed I've definitely had a massive increase of infections that require antibiotics and minor illnesses since requiring such medications....
And while watching ER (hospital TV show from the 90s...absolutely absorbing.... Great pain distraction) Dr Ross (aaahhh bless him... Do you remember when George Clooney was new on the scene?... I was always more of a Dr Green girl myself.... But I digress... Sorry)
So yeah Dr Ross was talking to a mum of a kid taking oramorph and they implied that this was why her son was having more chest infections.
What do you think?
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"I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"
I take oramorph as a top up pain killer for chronic pain. I have a weird body... Not easy to describe .
Off to gp this afternoon as week of amoxicillin hasn't cleared this infection up... Bit scared to be honest... Feel like my body is just getting more and more broken...
"I'm trying to live like a random poem I read that ended 'to bloom where we are planted"