Fentanyl Pain Patch Question
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I am a chronic pain patient and I have slowly got off hydrocodone 10mg-325 acetaminophen and acetaminophen#4 due to stomach issues. I also take other meds cyclobenzaprine diazepam, nortriptyline . I was prescribed the 25mg patch. after reading info with meds it states DO NOT TAKE IF NOT ALREADY USING OPIOID PAIN MED. I am scared to death to try this med. Because I have not used pain meds continually in the last 6 months. Is this safe to start?

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I have been on oxytocin 15mg 4x a day for a year and a half. And my dr just prescribed fentanyl 50mg patches. Is it ok to still take the oxytocin with the patch? This med is really scary to me.

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Yes, its safe. Your doctor wouldn't have prescribed it if it wasn't safe, at least if you were totally honest with him/her.

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Yes I have been under doctor and pain clinic care for 12 years. The doctor is the one that wrote the script to avoid medication going thru my stomach . I have been on? every drug out there just never a patch. My Pharmacist feels it would effect me no stronger than when I take 3 hydrocodone 10's at once or 2 Percocet at a time. My fear is I will not take pain meds on a daily or regular basis so this patch will continue to give me meds nonstop and I am not used to that at this point. I have in the past and just don't want to taxi my body with so many pills. My daily pain score is a 8 with other meds no pain killers. Thanks for any advise

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Fentanyl is a very strong opiate narcotic, it is over 80 times stronger than Morphine.

Learn more Fentanyl details here.

The main issue I see with it, apart from it being so strong, is that it really leaves you nowhere else to go in the future. Generally, it should be the last resort medication, after other options have been exhausted, since there are others that you can step up to in between.

Especially if you were just on the Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen.

Have you talked to your doctor?

That would really be the best thing to do, that way you can discuss your concerns and see what all of your options might be.

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