So, the last time I saw, Dr C, my main consultant (we try to get all the other consultants to CC her in to all the letters they write [there are/have been A LOT over the years]) she looked at my list of painkillers and decided that, although I need to be on all those pain killers to help with all my pain, being on all these pain killers are damaging my liver and I'm building up a tolerance to them so they need to be 'upped' from time to time.
Dr C prescribed a solution to this; A pain killer patch that releases the pain killer evenly. I wear one patch each week. It's called BuTrans 10microgram per hour, a Transdermal Buprenorphine Patch. It has to be changed on the same day each week.
Today I put the first one on and, of course, I HAD to read the side effects (as I do for EVERY new medication I get) and there are some good ones;They are written under subtitle's: Very Common, Common, Uncommon, Rare and Very Rare.The best ones are under, as you might be able to guess, are under Uncommon, Rare and Very Rare causing mood swings, feeling detached from oneself, difficulty speaking, a feeling of extreme happiness [this one I kind of want], hallucinations, worsening of breathing problems (such as asthma, weight loss [I kind of want this one, a bit, too], swelling of face, spasms [like the word spasm], an increase in accidental injuries, withdrawal symptoms, mental disorder, diverticulitis (inflammation of the intestine), decreased erection, sexual dysfunction,muscle twitching and blisters.
These are just some of the more interesting ones; a lot of the side effects coincide with the symptoms of POTS and all my other problems so I probably won't notice if I have those side effects.
Have any of you tried these patches before??
If you have, did you get any of the side effects??
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