Is It Okay To Chew A Fentanyl 50mg Pain Patch? (Page 36)

I've been prescribed fentanyl 50mg pain patches and i was just wondering if it's okay to cut one in half an chew on it?

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Re: Roy (# 1)

I broke 7 ribs and it got to a point where I was taking 12 roxi 30s a day.....and I didn’t wanna do that, so they gave me 20 100mcg fentanyl patches. I opened one and sucked all the gel out. About 2 minutes later, I get real nervous so I follow my mom around for 3 hours. I felt like I could have overdosed easily in that 3 hour span . Never do that again: not even a good high

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Re: doc-of-med (# 4)

Realize this is an old post, but just have to say YOU need to stop pretending to be a doctor- You sound like an addict yourself; Don't know what kind of ER you are used too, but maybe you should continue judgement of others away from drug forums. BTW, most addicts became addicted from pain medication that was prescribed for sincere pain- do you judge them the same as the ones that became addicted from self medicating, and how do you know the difference!!!?

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Re: Barry Anoia (# 20)

Barry - funny (sorta) story: I’m also a previous RN on fentanyl patches for about 10 years for chronic pain due to psoriatic arthritis. Anyway - 7 years ago I had a spontaneous aortic dissection & one of the nurses where I was rehabbing wore gloves to put my patch on … I called her Florence Nightingale ??

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No.
People who do this are why legitimate patients can’t get help for legitimate pain.

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Re: Makayla10 (# 6)

Report those messages. They’re going to get someone killed. This web site is for medication information and safety, not how to be a junkie.

Please report those messages.

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Re: josieaka (# 9)

Not to mention.... Other people, as well. Anybody who is prescribed Fentanyl or takes it via other means and has it in their home, needs to lock it up in a locked box so that no one else can gain access to this very very strong and possible deadly drug - and that includes all other ADULTS, children & pets. This medication is nothing to take lightly and should be handled as if it were Poison to anyone who it was not prescribed for.

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Re: Thaboys 21 (# 11)

Umm.... You totally got off topic here which is Fentanyl. Your entire essay (No pun intended) is on a completely different topic which is, "Marijuana". I'm quite sure there's a thread for that as well. However, appreciate you sharing your experience & tips on growing marijuana in the basement and the part about saving money in the end. Quite helpful to the topic, "Fentanyl".

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Re: momupana (# 16)

And .. it's extremely foolish and selfish of you to encourage others and pretty much give instructions to cut them in 4 pieces. Do you realize that some people are mentally ill or very naive and will take this information as facts and could possibly do what you laid out here and quite possibly overdose and die? You have to keep in mind when discussing such important and crucial information, we need to take into consideration before actually sharing publicly and ask ourselves, "Will this information I just shared PUBLICLY potentially cause harm to someone?" And... In the end and if someone would overdose and die just from doing as you said you do ... Was it really worth you sharing that very reckless & dangerous information? I would say absolutely not and please do not post your personal medication routes of administration publicly. It's careless to say in the least.

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Re: Optimistic (# 705)

I absolutely agree with you 100%.

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Re: meh125 (# 8)

Get a life ASSCLOWN!!! NO ONE CARE'S

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Re: Thaboys 21 (# 11)

No one cares, your message is irrelevant to the topic!!!

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Re: Non Nobis Solum (# 14)

I really have a tough time believing ppl are having an OD issue with something like a 50 microgram patch. I certainly don’t condone this behavior, I’m not saying it’s ok and definitely not bragging. I guess it’s just about being careful and BEING KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN HANDLE AND KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOURE TAKING! Again, it’s dangerous, but some ppl have their mind made up on it. So, I don’t tell anyone to do this, but if you must, what I wrote in caps is the best advice you’ll get, besides "don’t do it at all" of course. Stay safe ppl.

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Re: elle (# 17)

If talking about cutting the patches into "8ths" you're only risking it. First off ,the patches can't be cut. One side may have more fentanyl than the other. And if u do cut a patch and take it orally, you will could overdose. Now as for me, I beat a terrible addiction 5 years ago. Last year I was diagnosed with scoliosis and spinal stenosis. One disease curves ur spine while the other one make it crooked. Since last yr. I have had two major spine operations. I have 7 rods now in my back. And sadly I'm on Oxy 20mgs and 75mg of fentanyl. Like an a-hole I ran out of my pills 4 days before I could refill. So of course I started withdrawal and the back pain was beyoond chronic. I couldn't take it anymore. I grabbed a patch and chewed on it. Thank God, I did not OD, but when I tell you it was harsh - I WAS NODDING OFF AT WORK, THEN STANDING UP PASSED OUT ON THE TRAIN going to the Bronx, when I live in Brooklyn!!! I got home thank God. About 3 hours late, I looked like a ghost. I slept no joke 20 hours and woke in even more damn pain!!! The only thing I think that helped me not OD was the fact that I was on medications for a long time and my brain had some type of tolerance for it, but it ain't worth the chance. Not to mention I lost my job, I could have been robbed on an NYC subway, I took the train in the opposite direction because I was out of it!!! It ain't worth the s***. I had an angel on my shoulder. But even angels can do so much. Take your meds the right way, u know what if u have painkillers and the pain is that bad, u can take an extra one. But be careful because ur body will build a tolerance and u will want more and more. See where I'm going with this? Ur body can take only so much.

Good luck to you.

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Re: Barry Anoia (# 20)

AWESOME RESPONSE

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Re: josephwisdom (# 21)

I have to disagree with you, if you put a patch on someone you can’t overdose unless you touch the sticky side of the patch, and then you’d have to have itt on your skin for a minute.
Also your lungs don’t freeze from eating them as that’s not how it works, you nod out, you overdose, the lungs don’t “freeze”, you forget to breathe, your heart forgets to beat. I’ve had loads of back surgeries, and now the cartilage is torn off my knee and I’m often in the. Worse pain imaginable BUT I’m also an addict, I did heroin many years ago, then I stopped for 32 years until I started having pain. I’ve been on everything, and I now use Fent patches for past 10 years or so, I’m on 100 mg and I’ve been abusing them for years. I’ve never OD’d, I cut them up when they’re fresh out of the packet, just like a loaf of bread. Ummm then I chew the pieces, I now am sick of it, I honestly don’t think they give me any relief from pain as my tolerance is ridiculously high. In a week or so I’m gonna see my doctor stand tell him I no longer want to do them, and I’d rather take methadone daily and wean off, I’m an addict, I’ll abuse them and I no longer want to. Anyway, good luck to everyone taking them, trying to treat pain, living with pain, I hope you find a way to beat it. For all the people who’ve lost loved ones, I’m so sorry for your loss, it’s the worst thing; the loss of life, losss of a promise of a beautiful person.
As for the geezer above, please don’t rant and rave to the lovely lady nurse who replied to your earlier comment, this isn’t the place to attack someone’s character whether you believe someone or not. So you don’t die automatically off chewing the patches or I’d be a ghost. Furthermore why mention the fact someone can OD when they put the patch on, as you as an opiate tolerant patient should be doing it yourself. Plus you sound a wee bit of an addict yourself talking about how those hot baths make the medicine come out quicker, leading on to a hit.

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Re: crymealulliby28 (# 30)

Nah, you wouldn’t usually get a rash on your tongue unless you were allergic to the adhesive maybe. But you would also have a rash on your arm if that was the case, so I don’t know. I started abusing them like this like 3 years ago. All I can say is please don’t do it, it ain’t worth it at all, besides which, it’s a rubbish high, different from heroin quite a lot I’d say. Keep on breathing.

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Re: recovaddict712 (# 31)

It made me relapse, I did other pain kiilllers doc gave me (all opiates), then the Oxys got me, tho I refused to go get heroin and used poppy pod tea to stave those withdrawals. Now I’m on 100mgs for years and I started chewing bits of them over 2-3 years ago. I have terrible pain, I’ve had rear back pain surgery twice, and all the epidurals they could muster. Now I have the worst knee pain and it messes my life up, but I want off this as I think the patches don’t deal with the pain. I’ve made reservations to go and talk to someone for my addictive behaviour, then get methadone to reduce my withdrawals.
Plus, please don’t keep dissing on drug users who abuse the medicine too much, then please desist. Nobody wakes up one day and says they wanna be an opiate abuser, it’s a living hell. Why don’t we lay the blame at Perdue big pharma, they pushed pills and created a generation of misery through addiction.

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Re: Mrswaynesimmonds (# 36)

That’s the way I chew mine, I cut them up with a razor blade into tiny squares. The problem is that if left to do it by myself I’d just go through all my patches in 7 days, then have to survive off poppy pod tea to stave withdrawals. I’m an addict, I don’t want this.

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Re: MethaContin85 (# 12)

Wow. I have so much respect for you for taking responsibility for YOUR actions. I hope many people read this and realize, yea, your upset at the “people” who sold/gave the drug, but it is the person/“addict” who CHOSE to take medication and use it irresponsibly. So many of us - me included - NEED these medications for legitimate pain and use; however, those that use neglect to use properly-or receive a legal prescription from their doctor are making it harder for those of us that actually need and benefit from them.

I’m sorry for any one’s loss but please, don’t be mad at/shoot the messenger

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Re: Golden (# 13)

Ditto & Well said!

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