"in the hospital in excruciating pain with ulcerative colitis, plus i&#039;d just had shoulder surgery. morphine and codeine make me sick, but dilaudid was a miracle.  my pain went from a 10 to 0 in minutes!  i slept well, and never got nauseated.  doctors are reluctant to prescribe it, probably because it&#039;s so powerful.  it really works."