Hi Tony:

I feel for you. My husband has had this horrible thing for almost 16 years. His pain was so severe 6 or so years ago, he had to use the Fentanyl patch. It worked very well but it did constipate him. He lived on laxatives at that time. Neurontin did nothing but make him deathly ill. And lyrica did absolutely nothing.

What was a real breakthrough for him was being treated by a chiropractic/neurologist. What a difference. He was diagnosed idiopathic until last year when they said he had CIDP. But honestly, the chiropractic neurologist (the adjustments, using the G5 machine, whatever the guy did), well it was like night and day (his pain level I mean). He went into that office using the patch, and within several months, he was weaned off.

Have you ever been on the Fentanyl patch?