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Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Mr T,
The leg uneasiness you speak of is opiate withdrawal. Valium can help take the edge off but it could last up to a week or two. I weaned off 2-75 mg fentanyl patches in 3 weeks. I just keep them on 5-5 days and cut back as well. I also weaned off methadone in dec/Jan and the hospice doc insisted I wouldn't live through it they even overdosed me by accident. I just stretched my 8 hr dose to 10, 12, 14, 16, etc, hrs and down 20% each 3 days. No bad effects.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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