DURAGESIC-100 Reviews (FENTANYL)Average Rating: 3.9 (148 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DURAGESIC-100 with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DURAGESIC-100 | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | chronic pain | aftera few days when your body adjust v.good pain reliefwithout a drugged feeling | M | 42 | 3 years | 7/28/2002 | 5 | degenerative disk disease | NO Side effects... Diagnosed with ddd at the age of 25 , it is birth related, but usually accident related, disk 1 thru 5 lumbar. pain : Lower and middle back, sciatic thru entire right let, buttock, back of thigh, entire outside of calf (knee to ankle) and over top of foot. Left side, buttock, top outside of thigh and under back thigh, over foot from behind ankle. All pain 10+ .. Also Fibromyalgia. | I am 30 with 2 lumbar surgeries, pain still in effect, finally a doctor who isn't afraid of medicine and prescribing it put me on the patch (100hcg's) within 24 hours I had no pain. this has saved my life untill the doctor's can figure out a way to fix my back with proper surgery/ I recommend this to anyone with severe internal pain. only draw back, I being a victim no Insurance has found out it's price. 20.oo for 25mg 25 .00 for 50mg 35.00 for 75mg and 50.00 for 100.00 they come 5 to a package, you do the math. It's all of my disability money for this medication a month, 1 patch lasts 72 hours. Any one with back or sciatic problems who are ready to kill themselves due to the agony , ask for this patch.. I also supplement it with mscontin, 3 30mg a day. | F | 30 | 3 months | 9/17/2002 | 4 | F | 40 | 3 months | 11/27/2002 | 1 | post surgery analgesia | none, except the patch kept falling off | I was underdosed as it took a lot of fentanyl pre-op to put me out and post-op it just was not effective. This was in addition to a PCA morphine pump, then later I was discharged with a script for it. Let me add it was the Duragesic 25 patch. | M | 40 | 2 weeks | 2/21/2003 | 4 | Crohns Disease/ Rhabdomylosis | No bad side effects, relieves the pain of Crohns flairs as well as the cronic pain in leg from the muscular atrophy. I supplement the patch with daily doses of Percocet, 5mg every 4 hours, PRN. If pain is not controlled, I use Roxanol(morphine) 10mg/5ml in place of the Percocet. | Started with the 25ug/h patch, gradually increased to the 100ug/h, with increases 1x per week. Have had 6 surgeries for the Crohns, along with the leg pain, so pain reief was/is a major concern. Took some time to find a doctor willing to prescribe these meds for the length of time I've used them, but finally found a doc with some compassion. Only problem is keeping patch on for the 72 hours, need to use tape after 2nd day. Cost is very high, my insurance pays all but $3.00, otherwise cost would be close to $500 per month. | M | 44 | 2 years | 5/4/2003 | 3 | | 9/16/2003 | 5 | severe chronic pain caused by RSD | Nausea/Vomiting and Itching/Rash | I consider that Duragesic saved my life by controlling my severe chronic pain. | F | 28 | 1 years | 9/25/2003 | 4 | migraines | None. | This works as a general painkiller for my migraines, but I think my dose is too low for it to be truly effective. | F | 38 | 2 months | 11/9/2003 | 1 | pain | nausea vomitting itching sweating | does not work does not stick | F | 45 | 14 days | 11/21/2003 | 5 | chronic neurological pain | For first few days, I had some nausea. Some degree of constipation on ongoing basis. | I initially started with 25mg patch, but over course of six months, did not receive the relief of pain that I expected, namely to get my pain to the point that it was only really bad one or two days a week. Subsequently, I've begun using 2x25mg patches. I've found this works better than 1x50mg patch, as there seems to be variability between patches. When I was using a single patch, sometimes the pain relief would go away before the 3-day use was completed. On other ocassions, pain relief would still be adequate after 3 days. I blame this on patch variability rather than my normally-variable rates of pain because of the constipation issue -- namely, when the patch quits working, my stool gets looser. However, overall, Duragesic, despite its high cost, is significantly better than pain meds I've used in the past, which have not been satisfactory. Previous medications included stadol and vicodin, with their attendant cycles of on-oagain/off-again relief and the | M | 59 | 10 months | 2/7/2004 | 5 | disabling low back pain | rash under patch (sometimes).increase in libido. NO cash in wallet!!! | I use 175mcg/hr ev 48 hrs. I did not notice any releive until multiple patches were used. | M | 40 | 2.5 years | 2/17/2004 | 3 | To get high | dizziness, slight nausea | do to it's long acting effects and heat sensitive absorbsion it was not something recreational that I would recommend. I took the 25 strength patch off the next day. Not a good high and if you shoot this stuff or eat it you may die. Fentanyl is about 20 times more potent than heroin. | M | 28 | 1 days | 4/3/2004 | 3 | cronic back pain & buldging disc | Sedation | Works ok for awhile. Pain is still there just seems like my brain does not know the feeling of pain anymore. Weird sensation. Still painful though. Constipating. | F | 32 | 40 days | 4/4/2004 | 5 | chronic pain, fibromyalgia, RA | Constipation, which for me was more like normal bowel movent returned. I have IBS with chronic dirrea normally. Prob with patch sticking after 2 days or going into bath/pool/hottub. Slight rash in area where patch is removed. | This medicine has given me back my life. I have been in so much pain for the past 4 years and never had it controlled. Could never get prescribed enough lorcet/vicoprofen/percocet etc at one time to control pain so I would end up with a 1 - 2 weeks of little pain and 2-3 weeks with no medication till next doc visit. With the patch I have no more up and downs from pain medication. This keeps me settled, helped my depression and I am looking forward to working full time and maintaining a job for the first time in 4 years. MORE DOCTORS NEED TO BE WILLING TO PRESCRIBE THIS MEDICINE FOR PEOPLE IN CHORNIC PAIN THAT IS NOT TERMINAL! I find it has less of an abuse rating. Thanks to God and my Doc for finally putting me on the patch!! Thanks also to my family who supported me through this. | F | 33 | 1 months | 5/20/2004 | 4 | Severe Neuropathic Pain/Joint Disea | The first side effect was sleepiness and then constipation which has not gone away. The initial dry mouth, however, passed after a few days. | Duragesic is a life saver. I was literally at my wit's end and cried from pain every day, no physical treatment or medical treatment (Vicadin, Neurontin, Percocet) gave enough relief so I could still function somewhat. Duragesic works straight through, although some days I feel better than others, but still considerably improved. I have been taking it under the supervision of a Pain Management Specialist along with my first of three epidural lumbar medial nerve injections. | F | 64 | 12 days | 6/28/2004 | 4 | Arthritis/Fibro/Degenerative Discs | Dry mouth, mild fatigue | I have lived with pain for MANY years now and lost interest in about everything I used to do athletically. I was turned on to Duragesic recently after I spent endless hours researching LONG LASTING pain treatment instead of the pills I was prescribed to pop for a few hours of relief. I am on the 25 patch which worked extremely well at start. I noticed next to immediate results int he first 24 hours of use. It worked well for a week. Here I am on my 4th dose and I am feeling that dull ache coming back. I am currently sitting at work (barely) and the discomfort has be bouncing around in my chair trying to find a comfortable position. The weather is cool and rainy which doesnt help in the least! I must admit that this IS a good medicine for pain and am happy that I got it prescribed but now I am afraid of what might happen if I up the dose. I KNOW that I will need to do it so I guess I will see what happens and HOPEFULLY will do me some good. | M | 29 | 9 days | 7/7/2004 | 4 | chronic low back pain | extreme loss of appetite. Lost nearly 30lbs since starting this drug | after 11 months of use it seems like when I apply a patch, it releases too much of the medicine at once and then after the 1st 1.5 days the drug starts to wear off... during the 1st day and 1st night of applying a new patch, I sleep real good and real late, but after the 1st night the patch starts to wear off... I am now on 50mcg & 25mcg. I apply the 25mcg on the 2nd day of applying the 50mcg... this seems to work a little better, but I think my skin is worn out due to few places on my body I can apply them... | M | 25 | 13 months | 7/11/2004 | 5 | Chronic Pain | Sleepy, constipation. Most bothersome side effect is itching under the patch. After 48 hours I get a rash and the patch starts to come off. | I started on 75mcg and over the course of a year titrated up to 175mcg. This med works so well that sometimes I forget what the pain feels like or where it is. I get 100% pain relief. But if I forget to change the patches, by 12 hours past the change time, the pain comes roaring back. This drug has given me my life back. | F | 44 | 2 years | 7/23/2004 | 4 | Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy | Rash/Constipation | The best thing for RSD - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. 5 patches @$42/patch... ouch, but it works! | F | 41 | 8 months | 7/24/2004 | 2 | neck&shoulder pain | irritability | the patches never stay on for more than 24 hrs and even with the dressings from J&J, they still didn't stay on. | M | 34 | 1 months | 8/11/2004 |
DURAGESIC-100 (FENTANYL): See also Warning section. This medication is used to help relieve sudden (breakthrough) cancer pain in people who are regularly taking moderate to large amounts of opioid pain medication. Fentanyl belongs to a class of drugs known as opioid (narcotic) analgesics. It works in the brain to change how your body feels and responds to pain. This medication should not be used to relieve mild or short-term pain (such as due to headache/migraine, dental procedures, surgery). FDA Approval Date: 1990-08-07 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)