In my discussions with other local pain patients, the vast majority don't like the duragesic patch nor the suckers. The patches just don't hold as long as advertised (3 days my arse) and, extremely strong drug or not, just don't cover the pain. I've sucked on 2 actiq suckers at the same time & not begin to touch the breakthru pain I occasionally get, and that was with a 100mcg patch stuck to me and a hot-water-bottle place upon it in the hopes that it'd "hurry up before I freaked from pain." I told the doc what he could do with them because they certainly weren't doing anything useful for me. I swear, hydro does the best for me, beyond oxycodone or demerol or dilaudid or the rest. If only I could get "hydrocontin".. all the hydro but none of the apap in a simple pill, but that'd be too useful for me and less tolerance-building than oxy for them to do something like that!
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