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Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Annabel,
My husband has been on the Duragesic Patch I since about the middle of his chemo/rad treatments. He started w/ 25 and ended up with 100 for the last weeks of treatments and a few weeks after. He is 5 weeks post treatment and is down to 50 for the last three weeks. He doesn't seem to mind going down and trying to get off of them. He had major trouble in the beginning with bowel trouble, which they attribute mostly to the patch and other narcs he was on. So he has also taken meds for bowels thru the PEG which has been fine since we got it under control a week or two after it all started.
Hope this helps!
God Bless you and your family!
Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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