I've been on the fentanyl patches for about 3-4 weeks now. Started with 25mcgms for 1 week then moved into the 50mcgms just a few days ago.

They work for me so far and are the best form of pain medication I've had in awhile. I can see me increasing my dosage over the next month or so.

I'm a firm believer in "building up a tolerance" to medications. I have it happen to me a lot. I was also told by my doc, that the next step past fentanyl, would be a pain pump since there's really no script you can get for oral doses of morphine.