 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is 100X more potent then heroin so a medically supervised tapering off is a necessity. Even with that there will be about 3 days of "mild" withdrawal symptoms at the end. My tapering off took over a month. I was nauseated from practially everything so I couldn't tell whether the Fentanyl tapering was the culprit.
The constipation that narcotics causes can be a source of the nausea as well.
Follow the doctors orders to the letter and DO NOT cut the patch in half. They have a 15 mcg patch as well.
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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