We need more advice. Yesterday, two doctors looked at Richard's mouth and said that the sores are canker sores and recommended a topical med for them that we started to use yesterday. As I posted before, on Wed afternoon he put the patch on thinking this was the beginning of the actual mouth sores. The RO said it was a little early for mouth sores, but to start to use the patch if the pain was acute.

The patch makes him feel off and he would like to stop it after the 72hrs. We know he'll need the pain med eventually, but there is no pain at this point except for the canker sores. He wouldn't of used the patch at all if we had known these were only canker sores. He has no sore throat and wants to wait until the pain from the treatment really kicks in before starting the heavy duty pain meds. We will ask the doctor today, but since he's only used one 25mcg patch would there be any withdrawal if he stops it. At this point, he would rather have a bit of discomfort then to feel loopy. Thanks, Geri