Thanks Mel! I'll look for those too.......Isn't it crazy that you have to buy a product to keep that patch on? I use the Oxytrol patch and the Climara patch and don't have any problem keeping them on. They are very sticky and stay on for a week at a time.

Actually, Alan never had a patch come off. He was just afraid it would come off so they sent us the Bioclusive things. Very hard to use one. Believe me, the first time I tried to cover Alan's fenatnyl, I must have used 3 of these things. They open up in a different way, when you peel them. Drove me nuts.

Oh, (and this applies to men), they should not shave the area they are putting the patch on. They should cut the hairs. If they shave the area, they are taking off the top layer of skin, and if they put the fentanyl patch directly on this area, it increases the delivery of the fentanyl.

I never forgot that. So Alan would just cut the hairs on the top part of his chest when he would put the patch on. And he couldn't put it on the same place consecutively. He would have to vary the locations.

Very interesting, this fentanyl patch. Alan went up to 100 of the patch, when he found Dr. Theirl.

So his primary at the time, did the lowering, gradually, of the fentanyl. He got down to 25 of the patch, and could not go off of it. He had to go into detox. But because they did not have the right test to give him that would test for fentanyl, they released him saying "you are not on drugs, it's not in your system". He could not believe it. He was there for 24 hours. When he came home, I was stunned. I said "what happened"? and he said to me "they say I am not on drugs so I don't have to detox". What a screwed up detox place this was.

Alan had to detox himself in our bedroom for 5 days to get off the 25.

It's like a really bad flu. But he did it.

But when he needed the patch, it really did work for him. And after a while, he took vicodin for breakthrough pain.

Wish you the best hon!!

Melody