does anyone know the conversion for this?

[tenacious]

helo everyone,

i am klooking for the conversion of 50 mg. fentanyk patches and ms contin............can anyone tell me?

thanks for your help!:D

[Pharmacist.steve]

helo everyone,

i am klooking for the conversion of 50 mg. fentanyk patches and ms contin............can anyone tell me?

thanks for your help!:D

Any conversions are only guesses and ranges.. 50mcg Fentanyl patches should convert to 150-250 mg of oral morphine/day Typically better pain management with MS Contin is done with dosing every 8 hrs as opposed to every 12hr..

[mforce00]

Morphine sulfate, oral 180 mg PO (chronic use)
Fentanyl 50-100 mcg/h patch (change q72h)

http://www.mywhatever.com/cifwriter/library/70/4932.html

[tenacious]

thanks for the info guys!! he definitely shorted me, that's for sure, and more than just in half........a lot more than that.

however, i may understand his reasoning......after coming out of a surgery in which i was given morophine, i swelled up everywhere, i itched so bad i was scratching my skin with a hair brush. the nurses in the hospital stopped the morphine right away and told me to never have it again. so, my pm doc is aware of that situation, and that i have not had morphine since then......which has been about fifteen years. neverthless, he put morphine sub q in my forearm, and i did not react to that, so he put me on the ms contin..............so i am watching closely for a reaction, but remaining positive and tenacious.

[tenacious]

wutgub a short time period, my pm doc has switched me to three different meds,..........one of them i was only on for two weeks, the other one, i don't feel he raised the dosage enough to give the med a chance to work. although i am on another opiate.......could i be going through withdrawals from the other ones i have been on?

[tenacious]

i hope that someone will see this and reply.:D

[BrokenBladder]

Personally I wouldn't think that 2 weeks would be enough to make you have withdrawls, but then again I could be wrong. Hopefully someone else will come along who might know the answer.

[mforce00]

Depends on dose...
If you took like 200mg a day of Oxycotin for 2 weeks then stopped, yes you will have withdrawal symptoms, but if you took 2mg of codeine then no.

[tenacious]

thanks so much for your responses.

i never planned to share this, but........

my pain is going to decrease, i know it is because last night my husband was arrested for domestic abuse. once i heal from what he did to me last night, i anticipate lower pain levels,

[mforce00]

A husband abused a wife with chronic pain?

I'm actually speechless, and that is rare.

[tenacious]

yes, and it has been happening for awhile.

he is a good man, but just explodes on me when angry............

i cannot live with it anymore.

[mforce00]

yes, and it has been happening for awhile.

he is a good man, but just explodes on me when angry............

i cannot live with it anymore.

No, he is not a good man. That is just quite low of him. Abusing someone with chronic pain outweighs any good he can ever do.

[Kira]

Oh, hon. That is just terrible. I feel honored that you chose to share it with us. I am so GLAD that you are getting out of the situation and really pray that you start feeling better, physically and emotionally, when you are safer. If you need to talk about it and don't want to post publicly on the board, feel free to PM me. I don't have any personal experience with this but do want to offer a shoulder to cry on and a supportive ear.

[tenacious]

i thank both of you so VERY MUCH!! both of my eyes are healing well, and so is my arm. my pain levels are currently up, and if they stay this way, i plan to call my pm toward the end of the week. last night his valentines presents were returned, and i will spend the day alone, but that is okay.

i hope you don't mind if i vent a little? i only have one friend, and i don't want to overwhelm her.......

because of my diseases, it is not uncommon for me to be 'locked up' by my joints during the night, and i would need to awaken him to help me to move that part of my body. it would make him mad, and i found myself wondering if i was doing something that was causing my joints to lock at night......but i wasn't.

i PUSHED AND PUSHED myself, regardless of if i was in a flare and needed to lay off a few of my joints for a couple days. although i knew what i needed to do for myself, i would still push, because he demanded it........

i do NOT want any sympathy, because it has been my own fault for being with hiim, but....

there were several times, in just the last year, when he had the landline turned off, and my celll phone was a companion to his, so if we would argue, he would have my phone turned off. there were about three times in the last year when he was sleeping on the couch and i would be sitting on the floor next to him, sobbing and begging him to use his phone so i could call my doc, because i thought he had broken my hand or foot, and he would say NO, because i had behaved wrong, and if i wanted help, walk down the street until i found a payphone. i was terrified.:eek:

so after my eyes and arm heals, i will be dealing with pain levels only from my diseases, not from him also.:D

[tenacious]

:D i don't need strong words, and there is nothing wrong with me..........HE IS IN JAIL FOR ABUSING ME. it took a long time of calling the police, but he is in jail, with NO BOND.

no, i don't need a man.

i tolerated what i should NOT have, but now, HE CANNOT GET AT ME.:D

[mforce00]

From your posts it seemed to be going on for awhile, and you also stated he's a good guy. He will not be in jail for all his life. Are you going to stay together with him? I'm just confused by you... fill me in on your future plans.

[tenacious]

my future plans? laughter, volunteering, safety, and divorce. the papers are already being typed and i should receive them in the next week. a 'no contact' order is in place, which is for two years, and i am already packing to move to another town, maybe another state.

future plans? HAPPINESS:D

[mforce00]

Oh, Ok then. I approve of these plans :P I just didn't get the "moving on" feeling originally from you I guess.

[tenacious]

thank you; i appreciate your words.:D