Duragesic Patch ???

[radioboy74]

My father suffers from Chronic back pain and has been suggested to use the duragesic patch, what if anyone does anyboy know about this.

Also on my own, I suffer from testicular pain (it's not cancer, we know that) any suggestions on what I can take that won't put me overboard.  If you want to know how intense the pain is, imagine having a tooth ache down there.

[alchemist]

Wow 2 or 3 patches at a time! your lucky that you didn't OD, fentanyl has a strong depressant effect on breathing and has caused death to trained anesthesialogist who have abused it.  It forms a depot under the skin and continues to enter the body for many hours even after the patch is removed.  What size/dose patch were you using?

[sinful]

hi i am new here but have posted before,i'v too been on the duragesic patch and found that it very very strong.i felt the relief right away.BUT the only problem was that it was too strong for me, be careful with this, i weighed only 95 pounds and this patch nearly killed me.when i was sleeping, my legs were jerking, i think that meant that this was too strong for me, i lied about my weight with the doctors and pharmiscist bc they would look at me and ask "how much do you weigh"? i always said 110 or 115.anyways i had the worst withdrawals withthis patch. so please be carefull!! i even used to put 2 or 3 patches at a time so i felt numb.this is crazy!! just be careful!! ok so write back please

[J.B. to Brian and Vicky]

For those of us who don't want to spend $100.00 for a PDR to look up medications, I suggest visiting a used book store.  I have three PDR's that are pretty current(1998-2000) and they were $12.50 apiece.  Then, of course, you can always visit a library for free and get all the info you want.

Radioboy, I once found some odd looking pills in one of my daughter's bedroom and got pretty upset.  They were in a plastic box similar to what jewelry is packaged in.  All kinds of nasty thoughs of dread came to mind!  After an hour of checking and a call to my pharmacist, I found out they were simply generic Tylenol. The point is that it's better to be safe than sorry. This may sound a bit "holier than thou", but I would never take any med not prescribed to me.  There were times in the past when I didn't have this attitude and got in lots of trouble!

J.B.

[RaspSwirl]

Radioboy, all your questions about pills and medication identification can be found online.  However, I hope that you are not just coming here to identify medications.  But, if you are usure about what something is, I think if anything, it's better that you know what you're taking before taking it.  Especially if you might be allergic to an ingredient in it.  If you're going to take them anyway, it's better to be safe and know what it is.  There's a website that I've found helpful, you can look up names of medications, and also there is a section where you can type in the numbers and/or letters on the pill itself.  Please note though, that I am not encouraging you to find pills and identify them, I'm posting this because you should at least know what you're taking.  I'm especially concerned because it seems that the pill you have with 78/Wyth on it, is the morning after pill.  
  The website is:
http://www.rxlist.com
There is a section at the top entitled "Advanced search."  You will find a few different ways to indentify what you have.  It's probably a better idea to do it that way, instead of posting here asking what it is that you found.

Again, I'm not encouraging you to take pills or drugs or whatnot.  I'm just trying to help you not take something dangerous to yourself, more dangerous than what you're looking for, anyway.  Good luck,

[alchemist]

They did give me several roxicodone for breakthrough pain and I was basically "living" off of these, I don't recall having WD at that point, but lots of pain, it just didn't work for me.  I repeatily called the new doc in the pratice that change my meds from oxy 20's to the patch.  She wouldn't budge, just kept telling me to wait longer for the patch to start working (this lasted months).  I kept leaving messages for my regular doc about the situation by she intercepted them, and refused to change anything.  I started to think she thought I was "faking" it, looking for more meds, which was far from the truth.  I was able to specifically see a different doc in the practice who put me on ms contin and viola' problem solved.  I blame the people who made oxycontin (which I believe was a life safer as far as pain relief goes) a "dirty" word and for making all the doc's at my pain clinic stop giving scrips for oxycontin.

[1fortheroad]

i have been thinking about your posts some more, and i don't want you to feel like i am giving you a hard time without warrant.  you just sound like someone who maybe isn't into this narcotic thing too deeply yet...it sounds like you are experimenting.  and please, take what i am saying seriously...you do not want to get into this **** too deeply - it can ruin your entire life.  just read the posts here and see what people go thru.  it kind of irritates me that you jump into the middle of a thread where someone is crying out for help, who's obviously in total pain and ask about a certain drug and whether it will give you a buzz.  i for one do not want to give a person information on a med if their intention is to get high from it....sorry, that just isn't what i come here for.  i hope you get the experimenting thing out of your system and don't find yourself hooked (like me) - believe me...i am not happy.