Your tapering program needs to be medically supervised or you may suffer convulsions and/or death. It took over a month for me to wean off of Fentanyl and my dose rate wasn't as high as yours. My entire phase out was scripted by my oncologist and I still had withdrawals, although nothing unmanageable. (just for the record, some cancer patients I have known personally (pancreatic cancer mainly) have had a 500mcg dose rate - and that's the limit)


Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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