 Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 126 | Annabel,
My spouse was under the care of pain management team. She started with a 25 microgram per hour fentynal patch and worked up to 50 than 75 and than 100. Morphine was prescribed for breakthrough pain.
She was on the 100 microgram patch for several months and we justed started going in reverse down to a 75 microgram patch again under the care of the pain management team.
As others have said, these are potent painkillers and require the a medical team supervison. Also the process to get the off these pain killer must be gradual to avoid nasty complications.
In our case both the patch and the liquid morphine worked well in controlling the pain/
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