Fentanyl Transdermal Patch Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Duragesic, Duragesic-50, Mylan Fentanyl Patch (Show all)
See also: Fentanyl
What is Fentanyl Transdermal Patch?
Fentanyl is an opioid analgesic drug more powerful than morphine. In patch form it is used to provide a steady stream of the drug to treat moderate to severe chronic pain.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Pain | 96 |
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| Other | 21 |
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| Fibromyalgia | 20 |
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| chronic pain | 8 |
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| Pain, chronic | 5 |
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| Pain, lower back | 3 |
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See all 156 patients currently taking Fentanyl Transdermal Patch
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Fentanyl Transdermal Patch. See all 52 dosages ►
| 100 mcg all the time (24/7) | 100mcg as needed | 100mcg/hr as needed | 100 mg all the time (24/7) | 12.5 hours all the time (24/7) | 12 mcg all the time (24/7) | 1500 mcg all the time (24/7) | 150 mcg all the time (24/7) | 1 PATCH all the time (24/7) | 2 25mcg/hr as needed | 25 mcg all the time (24/7) | 25mcg as needed | 25mcg/hr as needed | 25 mg all the time (24/7) | 25mg as needed | 25other as needed | 50 mcg all the time (24/7) | 50mcg as needed | 50mcg/hr as needed | 50 mg all the time (24/7) | 50mg as needed | 625 mcg all the time (24/7) | 75 hr all the time (24/7) | 75 mcg all the time (24/7) | 75 mcg as needed | 75 mg all the time (24/7) | 0.25 mcg daily | 25 mcg monthly | 1 other daily | 25 mcg weekly | 25 mg weekly | 50 mcg weekly | 75 mcg weekly | 12 mcg daily | 12.5 mg daily | 100 mcg weekly | 150 mcg weekly | 750 mcg monthly | 25 mcg daily | 25 mg daily | 50 | 50 mg | 200 mcg weekly | 1000 mcg monthly | 1500 mcg monthly | 50 mcg daily | 75 mcg daily | 75 mcg one time | 75 mg daily | 100 mcg daily | 150 mg daily | 200 mcg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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13 | 36% |
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Other
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10 | 28% |
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Did not seem to work
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7 | 19% |
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Doctor's advice
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6 | 17% |
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Personal research
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4 | 11% |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 11% |
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Expense
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1 | 3% |
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See all 34 patients who’ve stopped taking Fentanyl Transdermal Patch
Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.
Patient Evaluations
See all 48 patient evaluations
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- helpmeifyoucan
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Moderate
- F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- helpmeifyoucan
- 100 mcg daily
- since Nov 30, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain, chronic
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- porcelain1
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- porcelain1
- since Jan 11, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips This patch has really taken the edge off of my pain, although it hasnt completely taken it away. Make sure you stay on top of changing your patch as advised.... See full evaluation
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- Skooter
- Sex: F
- Flare-up: Severe
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Severe
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
- See profile
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- Skooter
- 50 mcg weekly
- since Feb 10, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
Severe
- Advice/Tips please, this drug is unpredictable, very easy to overdose, sun simply hitting the patch will zap too much fentynal into the system, causing breathing to stop... See full evaluation
See all 48 patient evaluations
Report created on November 20, 2009.