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Fentanyl patch - side effects??
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Anyone ever had problems from Fentanyl? I have kept my mom up for 2 nights howling and pacing and someone told my mom it could be a side effect from th Fentanyl patch....so she took it off because she is desprate for sleep at this point.......I still have Tramadol, and my mom gave me Tramadol around 10:30AM.....I am finally sleeping. My mom had to work on less than 2 hours of sleep yesterday and she was still up with me at 7 AM this morning so she is very tired.....I have some redness around my stitches and I have not been eating but my mom syringe feeds me some food so the Clavamox won't make my stomach worse....
Thank you, I wish the vet would have told my mom. I have been sleeping all day. For the past 2 nights I have been up howling and pacing and my mom and dad could not get me to calm down. My mom and I both slept all day!!!! My mom was soooo tired because she had been up with me for 2 days with no sleep. My dad even tried sleeping on the floor next tome, nothing was working. I am so much better since my mom took that patch off......I have been drinking water on my own and everything...
Glad you're feeling more comfortable with the fentanyl patch off. Any pain med can have weird effects. I used to have a similar reaction with torbugesic or robaxin. Instead of lying down and sleeping it off, I would pace and whine. I think fentanyl side-effects like the one you had can be pretty common.
Oh, I hope your Mom was careful taking it off! It is toxic to humans... Well, not exactly toxic, but they should not touch it in any way. They say to use gloves to take it off and you need the area the patch was in cleaned so they don't get it on them.
I'm glad you are o.k. I was so much better without that darned patch. But Mom waited the entire 3 days, and called the vet before she removed it.
do be careful, if you are not used to it, Fentanyl patches can be dangerous to someone (human) touching it . You should wear gloves to handle. even though it's a smaller dose than what would be given a human, you can for sure absorb it and need to disposes of it where n one else can get to it. As everyone has said, yes, these can be side effects of opiods.
Have you ever taken pain medication like Codeine or Vicodin? Know that fuzzy headed feeling you get? Well, we can say, OK, I'm laying down and sleeping it off. And most dogs do the same thing on pain meds... either they are so sleepy they can't help it, or they lay down and give in to the sedative effect and sleep off the goofy feeling. Some dogs really dislike that fuzzy headed feeling and fight it and fight it and won't lay down and sleep. Bowser is my friend and I remember how he would act on any of those meds. He paced for 24 hours straight! Now, Duke, a new schnauzer friend of mine, just had torbugesic and slept for 3 days ... so each dog is different!
Glad you are feeling better off of the patch!
And Fentanyl isn't toxic to people. They use fentanyl patches on people all the time. It is just that the patch is meant to be absorbed through the skin... so when you take the patch off, if you touch the part where the medicine is you could possibly absorb some. But really it is no big worry... mostly you are going to be touching it by the edges anyways. And even if you did touch the mediciney part... hopefully you weren't hanging on to it for minutes on end where some medicine might absorb through your skin.
Tonka....I am so glad your mom found out about the patch. I had no idea either; it seems the vet would have warned you of such a possibility. But, it is so good to hear that you are drinking water and that you and Mom are sleeping. We are still sending you healing thoughts, Tonka. Be strong.
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... so each dog is different!
