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Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 939 | Don,
So glad Miss Froggy behaved nicely and you were able to sleep.
RE: the Fentenyl patch. Use the search feature on this board and you will see lots of posters using it in various strengths. Bill only had the lowest dosage patch and it worked reasonably well. He didn't need it right away...thinking that he started using it around week 5 as the liquid morphine worked up till then. If my memory serves me correctly, you place it on the skin and it stays there for 72 hours, then it is changed. It is pretty powerful stuff and has side effects...mental confusion, lethargy....etc...so use with caution. You usually have a script for other meds for breakthru pain while using the patch.
Glad its Friday and you have a weekend with no zapping appts...we were always grateful for the little weekend breaks from all the medical stuff.
Deb
Deb..caregiver to husband, age 63 at diagnosis, former smoker who quit in 1997.
DIAGNOSIS: 6/26/07 SCC right tonsil/BOT T4N0M0
TREATMENT START: 8/9/07 cisplatin/taxol X 7..IMRT twice daily X 31.5.
TREATMENT END: 10/1/07
PEG OUT: 1/08
PORT OUT: 4/09
FOLLOWUP: Now only annual exams. ALL CLEAR!
Passed away 1/7/17 RIP Bill
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