The only thing that worked for Jack's pain was duragesic patches. He was also put on neuronton as some of his pain was nerve based and had good results with the combination. He used magic mouthwash, and lidocaine gel that he put on the sores with a q-tip but that only gave short term relief. The patches are also known as fentanyl.


JoAnne - Caregiver to husband, cancer rt. tonsil, mets to soft palate, BOT, 7 lymph nodes - T3N2BM0, stage 4. Robotic assisted surgery, radical neck dissection 2/06; 30 IMTX treatments and 4 cycles of cisplatin completed June 06.