m so late to this question but yes, they do still make the gel
patch as well as the
matrix. The gel
patch is cheaper than the
matrix, or so I was told at the hospital when I had my hip surgery, as that is what the hospital uses for their patients. It's. VERY dangerous to use, as Tuck was saying, because if it breaks, as it did in your case, you will get an overdose of the medication. They make a cover to go over it and my pharmacy gave me the covers when I first started using Fentanyl.