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Switching From Methadone To Fentanyl

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Dr. Rohit Gulati MD

bad accident...can not operate...been on fentanyl for first 5 years...body got used to it n did not work anymore..new pain dr. put me on methadone ..up to now 90 mg daily,,,still in pain ...Now .!! body ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rohit Gulati ( Pain Medicine & Palliative Care Specialist)
Dr. Rohit Gulati MD

hurt neck n back in accident 10 years ago...pain management dr. had me on fentanyl for 5 years...pain level about a 5 most of the time.then changed me to methadone . started out 20 mg in am and 20 mg ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rohit Gulati ( Pain Medicine & Palliative Care Specialist)
Dr. Rohit Gulati MD

hurt neck n back in accident 10 years ago...pain management dr. had me on fentanyl for 5 years...pain level about a 5 most of the time.then changed me to methadone . started out 20 mg in am and 20 mg ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rohit Gulati ( Pain Medicine & Palliative Care Specialist)
Dr. Rohit Gulati MD

hurt neck n back in accident 10 years ago...pain management dr. had me on fentanyl for 5 years...pain level about a 5 most of the time.then changed me to methadone . started out 20 mg in am and 20 mg ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Rohit Gulati ( Pain Medicine & Palliative Care Specialist)
Dr. Erion Spaho MD

is trying to take me off Fentanyl and put me on Methadone . My pain is increasing as he increases the Methadone, but he doesn't believe me. Says it can't do that. I am extremely sensitive to... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Erion Spaho ( Neurologist)

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Dr.  Shinas Hussain MD

Hello. I m trying to stop using my Fentanyl patch. The pain mgmt gave me 10 mg methadone q 12 h hour withdrawals. Uh....I can t and don t want this methadone. It seems to make me worse. So, when the ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Shinas Hussain ( General & Family Physician)
Dr.  Shinas Hussain MD

Yes I ve been on methadone for 2 yes got off last Tues on74mg it s been 8 days I m try to switch to subsolv well after being off the methadone for almost 3 days I took a subzolv an went into withdrawal so I ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Shinas Hussain ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Karen Steinberg MD

My wife is taking 10 milligram methadone and 75 microgram fentanol patch with 4 ibubprofun per day. She also sits in the sun for an hour or so per day. These are prescribed due to severe back pain ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Karen Steinberg ( Internal Medicine Specialist)
Dr. Akhtarhusian Ghausi MD

Methadone until the Morphine is completed and then stop the Methadone and begin the Fentanyl patch. I have ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Akhtarhusian Ghausi ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel MD

hello, I was prescribed fentanyl transdermal patches @ 100mcg per 72 hours about a year ago and i ... reduction. I was started on methadone did not work, then morphine which i had bad side effects also, then... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel ( General Surgeon)