Medication reduction - Pain Management Message Board

deeannek · 04-11-2008, 11:41 AM

Hi all, I hope everyone is having a good day. I got real sick Monday night. I started vomiting about 10pm and continued to vomit until Wednesday a.m. This all started when I changed my patch. I even took it off and was still very sick. I called pm and she changed my dosage from 75mcg to 25 mcg and so far so good. Unfortunately during all of this I got pneumonia. ( my GP thinks I may have aspirated some vomit while I was vomiting. (yuck). Anyone else ever go thru this? Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else might be having a similar problem. If you do call the doctor immediately and don't wait like I did. I feel like I could have ended up in the hospital or worse. Take Care all. Dee
Ps. You were Executor 75mcg was too much.

Executor · 04-11-2008, 12:04 PM

Hope you are feeling better! The 75 really is a powerful punch. Keep on eye on things as you've also had a big drop now....You may need to tweak back upwards a little. Your Doc probably wanted to be on the safe side and didn't feel comfortable with the 50. The problem with the 25, however, is that it's only 1/3 of what you were getting. They really need a 40 or something in between the 25 & 50. You may need to a 12, or even go to the 50 at some point...Just monitor yourself.

Hope you feel better.

Ex

ms_west · 04-11-2008, 07:09 PM

Dee, PRAISE THE LORD you are okay. Moldova just recently went thru a serious reaction as well. They moved her from 25 to 75 mg and she actually went into seizures. There is a thread here on the board. I started it requesting prayer for her. She is doing fine now but they ended up saying she had an Fentanyl Overdose and took her off of it. Two weeks later they just started her on oxycontin and so far so good.

I pray that you are feeling better soon. Right now my daughter has pnemonia too. She has been so sick. I could not imagine having pnemonia and coughing with your back pain. You poor thing. Take care and let everyone wait on you hand and foot.

deeannek · 04-11-2008, 10:38 PM

Pepper my ribs are so sore it hurts to breathe add coughing and sneezing to that and you got some pain. Lol, I had Doug make me some brownies so I could have a little bit of brownie with butter pecan ice cream...so good. Plus my appetite is just gone and I feel so queasy if I eat anything but ice cream. So I am mostly living on clear liquids. The worst part of this is my Mom had a heart attack Monday, and is in the hospital and I couldn't go see her. I feel like a heel, but I am just to sick. She is doing fine now and should be released this weekend. Take Care All, Dee

brianpain33 · 04-12-2008, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by deeannek

I started vomiting about 10pm and continued to vomit until Wednesday a.m. This all started when I changed my patch. I even took it off and was still very sick. Anyone else ever go thru this? If you do call the doctor immediately and don't wait like I did. I feel like I could have ended up in the hospital or worse.

Oh yes I definitely recall when this happened to me. I was switched from 25 to 50 and I had the same severe reaction. I woke up on the 3rd day and was extremely dizzy, lightheaded, and throwing up. I knew it was from the patch so I immediately ripped it off. You are extremely lucky that you did not stop breathing since this is what kills people most of the time from the OD. I should have gone to the hospital as well and I realize that I could have died. You should be extremely grateful that you lived and survived. I try to warn people now when they increase the patch. I am pretty sure that I warned Moldova before she did an increase. You just never know who is going to be sensitive and who is not. I had to cut mine back down to 25, then a month later went to 37(25 +12) and then a month after that was up to the 50. So, just because this did happen does not mean you won't build up tolerance and eventually end up on that dose (me being case in point). Thank God that we are both still alive.

brian