Re: Fentenyl Patches
From: Laura (sweetiepie42055423@yahoo.com)
Fri Sep 20 23:13:14 2002
At Fri, 20 Sep 2002, DBacken100@aol.com wrote:
>
>Don't want to scare you but they are as strong or stronger than morphine.
>You need to be under a Drs. care to take those. Should you have a reaction
>to them and any Dr. found out a friend gave them to you, the friend would be
>in big time trouble. Also they are never given unless you have a tolerance
>for the other opiates. They are given only after others less strong drugs
>have been used. Please, please, be careful. I can write out exactly what
>the drug book says, but basically you can have respiratory arrest if you have
>no tolerance or the dose is too high. I did have them in the hospital and
>know that they monitored my respiration's every 2 hours for the first 72
>hours to make sure I wouldn't have respiratory problems. I would not take
>them for sure. Be very careful.
>Sincerely,
>Deb
I havce not had the patches,but I have had Fentenyl quite a few times in
the Hospital,and I was also hooked up to a blood pressure cuff,and a
blood oxygen monitor,to make sure I was breathing and getting enough
oxygen. Please take Deb's advice here,even though I know it can be
tempting to try them,and get some pain relief.