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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2011 Jan 15;152(3):614–622. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.11.033

Table 9.

Total Side Effects for Morphine and Pentazocine as a Function of Cycle Phase*

NOC women (n=14) OC women (n=17)
Follicular Luteal Follicular Luteal
Morphinea,b,c 1.79 (1.19) 0.79 (0.89) 0.88 (0.93) 0.94 (1.09)
Pentazocine 1.5 (1.83) 1.36 (1.5) 1.76 (1.71) 1.47 (1.70)

NOC women showed significantly more morphine side-effects during the follicular phase versus the luteal phase [F(1,13=7.0, p = .02].

a

Phase p<0.05,

b

Oral Contraceptive group p>0.05,

c

Phase X Oral Contraceptive group p<0.05.

Bold shows that the interaction was driven by significantly greater side effects in the follicular vs. luteal phase for NOC but not OC women. p<0.05