 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | In Europe you can get medical grade heroin. In the US they can give you methadone which works very well I am told. But Fentanyl is 100X stronger. 125 mcg is on the low side. If she is allergic to morphine then she is allergic to heroin as well as they come from the same source. See this link for NCCN adult cancer pain management guidelines http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/pain.pdf
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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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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