What Are the Differences Between Two Pain Meds?
Question by menashafree: What are the differences between two pain meds?
I have legal script for both 10 X 10 mg/day and/or some amount of 50mcg/transdermal. Water work requires some shifting back and forth. Can anyone give an opinion between the 10mg Methadone Tablets (up to ten daily) & 50mcg delivery fentanyl? I’ve read equivalency charts but never inquired as to an individual’s experience.
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Answer by Fazar
go to www.rxlist.com and search each drug and you’ll see a comprehensive description of each.
C.D. scheduled drugs are not the sort of thing that many care to know about. I doubt that tis is the right website for “individual experience”.
website below is where you may be able to find your answer so visit:
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=46825
there is someones experience there of fentanyl …
Answer by Loz
I’m not sure how the doses of the two compare in pharmacological terms, but once you’re established on them, the transdermal fentanyl should give you a more steady level of drug in your system than the methadone tablets. Because it is ‘short-acting’, the level of methadone will fluctuate more.
I take 2 x 10mg methadone tablets every 6 hours, and I find that by 3-4 hours after taking them my pain is starting to creep up again. I can’t use the fentanyl patches now because I started to react very badly to the adhesive on them, but I found that they gave a much more ‘even’ level of pain relief.
Having been on various opioids over the years (and read equivalency charts), I find that they don’t necessarily tally as far as effective dose goes. I think that they are more important in terms of giving a safe starting point when changing drugs.
I hope that helps to answer your question 🙂
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