Hi I hope before you started taking this it was explained this is 50 x stronger than morphine and is highly addictive and when people want to come off it they find it very difficult as they get little support from Doctors and suffer lots of withdrawal symptoms. Better to look at other ways to control pain . The patch is notorious for not lasting 3 days and people going into withdrawal on a regular basis. They feel good the day the new patch goes on and bad by the 3rd day.
Hi, welcome here and sorry that your post got overlooked, sazerac... you have been through a lot and have a lot of courage, i wish you all the best now... you can ask your doctor for clonidine, a blood pressure med that helps with wds ... anyway, you will need your doctor's help here, .... read the thomas recipe at the health pages ( bottom of the page ) where you can find some other suggestions to help with wds, all in all they help to alleviate the symptoms a bit...
t know where else to put this, but I was recently switched from Morphine 60mg ER to the Fentanyl Duragesic patch. I thought the weird flu like symptoms might be a result of the new drug, but apparently it has to be withdrawal from the Morphine.
I'm kind of miffed neither the doctor nor pharmacist even mentioned this could happen. I was naive and thought the new medication wouldn't create an issue with the switch, I was wrong.
s help, by lowering the dosage slowly over a period of 2 months. Still, withdraw was very painful, though not as painful as going through withdrawal ever 3rd day.
Don't know if this helps, but it can't hurt right? Possibly the patch simply is not lasting you 3 days.
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That's when you turn to methadone.
This is pretty risky stuff, this methadone.
I have chronic pain from Tarlov Disease and Interstial Cystitis. My pain has been well managed for 2 1/2 years using tramadol (ultram) for maintenance and lortab for break through pain. I have developed chronic kidney disease and my doctors are pushing me to get some exercise. I have found that with every exercise form I have tried I quickly get beyond the pain control offered bu tramadol and lortab so i can't exercise.
I've been on the Duragesic 100 for almost 18 years. I've had 3 cervical fusions & 1 lumbar laminectomy. The Duragesic 100 has controlled my constant, chronic pain & while I've never been pain free, the Duragesic certainty helped. However in the last 2 months, its as if the patches are no longer working. I've always had additional breakthrough meds, but now its as if I'm going through withdrawals.
See I had no problem coming off duragesic. I was on 150 patch and I tapered off completely in one month with hardly any w/d symtpoms. My doc did a slow taper od I think 25 mcg every 6 days. Also the clonidine patch made a HUGE difference in helping to wean. No jitters, it was great. Also, he gave me 20 5 mg oxycodones to help if I did feel w/d's. I seriously had no problem whatsoever. Now, I have to take Oxycodone for my disease and I'm trying to wean down and it SUCKS!!!
I am completely off the duragesic patches, but have been taking about 15 mg of methadone a day cut the 10mg in half three times a day but sometimes when pain is worse I take a whole one. My doc told me that would be easier to come off the methadone rather than oxy but have not discussed in length with her. She pretty much just asks me what I can handle because I do still have pain.
, SO DEPRESSED I COULD SEE HOW PEOPLE COULD RELAPS BACK THE WITHDRAWAL IS WORSE THAN THE PAIN I HAD AND THE DOCTOR NEVER TOLD ME ANYTHING THAT I WOULD SUFFER THIS ON THE THIRD DAY THE HALF OF THE DAY BAD COULD NOT SLEEP 24 HOURS OTHER SAME BUT LESS FOUTH DAY I FELT LIKE EATING SOME AND IT IS EASER NOW OVER THE HUMP NOW SO MY QUESTION IS HOW LONG TOTAL BEFORE ALL SYMPTOMS ARE GONE, (DONT TRY TO WITHDRAWAL ALONE HAVE A PERSON THERE TO HELP YOU THE FEAR OF BEING ALONE IS THE WORST)
I have huge problems here. I'm going to try to stay on topic but things are pretty convoluted. Problem number 1 ... I'm on the Duragesic patch, 75 mcg every 48 hours. (In truth I change it every 72 because of fear on my part.) Last appointment told her I wanted to wean down and got a script for 50 mcg. Trouble is, in this location apparently they are not manufacturing the Duragesic and there is no date when they will be releasing more. No info on why.
After a wek of withdrawal he upped me to 25mcg per hour. I have been on it for 6 days ( 2 patch cycles) and am still in full withdrawal. I have an adhesive allergy and altho I'm not breaking out I. Hives or having a visible reaction is it possible that my body is just not absorbing the medication? Has anyone else had a similar issue?
I was not on it for very long so I don't know how much help I can be. At the time my insurance wouldn't cover it and it was too expensive. I also had some absorbtion/adhesion problems with it.
My doctor switched me to MSContin after a month or so of the patch and I did have some withdrawl/switching issues. It wasn't as bad as full-out withdrawls, though, at all.
I know this has probably been answered a few times but here goes. Im on 150mcg fentanyl patches every 3 days with 120mg dihydrocodeine every day and have been for nearly 10 years because of a lower spine bodge operation.
If your prescription is specifically written such that you can only fill that brand of duragesic patches, I would take the prescription back to the doctor after you have found a pharmacy that carries some other brand of duragesic patches, and have your doctor rewrite your prescription for that specific brand of duragesic patches.
Another option is to ask if one of your local pharamacies can order the J&J duragesic patches for you.
Hi Ga31419,
Welcome. I'm sorry to hear about the results of your drug screen. I hope this does not effect your pain management.
Do you know which test was preformed? Was this a quick urine test done in her office (immunoassay) or was it a GC-MS? (Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry [GC-MS])
The less effective drug screen, immunoassay is often performed first. It's actually more of a screening method and has a higher rate of inaccuracy.
Dear friend, I feel your pain and I'm wondering if or what someone will tell you on a comment back. Only one person was kind to comment back to my post. If you are in the fentanyl patch and I was on that too about 5 years ago, but it burned my skin, so they put me on morphine er, I was taking 60mg twice daily and had 100 of the 15mg fast acting morphine and that was not helping me anymore.
For me, the Mylan generics last the full 3 days, where none of the gel-reservoir patches do. I always got withdrawal symptoms by the third day. The gel patches also dispense too quickly with me. I'm dizzy and a bit nauseated the first day, fine on the second day, and withdrawing by the third day.
The Mylan patches also stick much better. I've rarely had one fall off unlike the gel patches.
Using damaged or cut DURAGESIC® patches can lead to the rapid release of the contents of the DURAGESIC® patch and absorption of a potentially fatal dose of fentanyl.
I once walked in a room as a nurse, found a patient who had taken off his patch and chewed it...he coded and died...there is alot of medication concentrated in the patch to be released over a 24 hour period...not all at once...if you cut them you would have no way of knowing the amount your wife would be absorbing..
Many medications for Fibromyalgia, if not tapered properly will cause withdrawal symptoms if stopped abruptly. I would call your doctor immediately and report these symptoms as soon as possible. Have you called your doctor to report your symptoms as of yet?
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