Absolutely typical… (Well for me anyway…) Perhaps changing from the OxyContin (The timed release OxyCodone Hydrochloride) was a bad idea. The bowel problems I was having before I changed to the Fentanyl patches is now worse than ever and I am suffering from major withdrawal symptoms nearly every other day. There doesn’t seem to be […]
Category: Current Medication
I don’t know if it was just the bad timing of my son being taken into hospital causing a lack of sleep (and an increase in stress), but switching back to tablets again caused massive problems for me today. I felt like a complete jibbering wreck when I got home from the hospital at 10.30am […]
Ripping the Patches Off
Sheesh, Fentanyl patches eh? Will be a lot better than pills right? Less side effects they say? You’ll have less problems? Try pulling the other one. Two days into the patch and I ripped the damn thing off. I have not fell as ill as I did Sunday morning for a long time. Stomach pains, […]
Image via Wikipedia Ever since moving back from the US I have always resisted narcotic based medications. After my last operation, I’d been placed on Oxycontin and Oxynorm, but I have been having a bucket load of complications with those. So today I started on Fentanyl Patches and we’ll see what happens. Personally, I don’t […]