Fentanyl 25mcg patches.

[SMP]

My daughter is 19 and has been using Fentanyl patches for chronic neuropathic pain for over 3 years.
She is soon to have an operation to sever 2/3 nerves and to decompress a branch of the facial nerve.
Will it be difficult getting her off the Fentanyl (assuming the op works) after so long?
The patches do not stop her pain completely, they just take the edge off it.

Thanks

[Sqad]

I don't know.

If they pick, identify and sever, the correct branch of the facial nerve, then she should be free of pain.......if it is the wrong branch, then you are back to square one.

Now, the next question is............is she addicted to Fentanyl? Sorry that I cannot be more helpful.

[SMP]

Thanks Squad
Difficult one this. Basically severe left otalgia for nearly 6 years plus surrounding areas. Probable cause shingles leading to Ramsay Hunt Syndrome and Geniculate Neuralgia. Recent regional nerve blocks of greater auricular nerve, occipital nerve and auricular temporal nerve gave numbness around post-auricular area, the helix, anti-helix, the earlobe and tragus.Conchal bowl retained nomal feeling hence decompression of auricular facial nerve.
If the op works it will be fantastic, just worried how difficult, dangerous it might be to get her off Fentanyl due to amount of time she has been on them.

[boxtops]

Hopefully her consultant can put her on a regime so she comes off them gradually. I hope the op is a success!

[SMP]

Thanks boxtops, I hope so too.