Duragesic and alcohol

[Lilly Burchell]

My boyfriend has been on Duragesic for 2 years following a serious injury to his neck in a car accident.

He already had a drinking problem and continued drinking while taking high doses of Duragesic.

He's had a terrible two years (and so have I...) but I'm glad to say that his new year's resolution is to stop drinking. He hasn't drunk at all for 10 days now but I'm wondering if this is too little too late.

I'd like to know what the real dangers are of mixing Duragesic with alcohol. The only information I've found so far is that alcohol increases the effects of the duragesic, and seeing that, despite the patches, he's in constant pain, I understand why he's found it so difficult to decide to stop drinking.

[Dan]

Lilly,
I would suggest to drink the mangosteen juice. It has Anti-neuralgic - Cox II inhibitor and reduce nerve pain (for example, back pain, joint pain, shoulder pain, etc).
It could also increase the effects of the prescription drugs while it eliminates the side effects of the drugs.
If you need more information, please contact me [e-mail]

[Brian]

Do not sell the patchs to anyone. If your boyfriend decideds not to use them anylonger, open the packages and flush the patchs down the toilet. If you allow anyone to use this medicine other than your boyfriend, he will go to jail for a very long time and it will give the DEA one more reason to go after those of us that need this medicine to make it through each day.

As far as having a drink while using the patch, there is little evidence to show that an occasional drink will hurt him or anyone using fentanyl for pain relief. If he is drinking to excess, he will end up killing himself because the body cannot maintain resparation properly when using fentanyl and alcohol because both work against the pulmonary system.

Good luck and I hope he can get feeling better and titrate off of the pain meds someday.

[Halloween Jack]

Dan wrote:

Lilly,
I would suggest to drink the mangosteen juice. It has Anti-neuralgic - Cox II inhibitor and reduce nerve pain (for example, back pain, joint pain, shoulder pain, etc).
It could also increase the effects of the prescription drugs while it eliminates the side effects of the drugs.
If you need more information, please contact me [e-mail]

so can you tell me more about mangosteen juice where do i find it i would like to try and see what it does if anything....

[brightstarlites]

Happy New Years! Hey Starman! I hope this winter cold is not finding you too blue or in more pain. I have had a rough holiday, better now, just the darn flu. I would run a fever and have to take the patch off and then wait until I was not feverish and then put it back on. BUT I am NOT complaining about that, it has still been the best decision to start the patch, I have a life again, I still have pain, but it is tolerable.
I have been busy the last week or so, had to take my little buddy, my kitty cat named 'Merlin' in for shots and to get 'fixed'. It needed to be done, but it's so barbaric! The poor thing misses 'them' and keeps looking for them, lol. He's my sweetie. He will curl up to me when I am in a lot of pain and keep me company.
I was reading thru some sites on the patch, I am serious, if I had not seen somebody getting some relief and good things from the patch (my guys here, Starman and Brian :), I would never had tried the Rx. I would have missed out on one of the first things in a long time to give relief from pain.
Does anyone think maybe all the other drugs went thru the 'bad drug' phase, i.e. vicodin, percocet,...too? be back soon, BrightStarLights

[Halloween Jack]

Nice to hear from you again , brite star im doing ok still have bad days but so gos life its got highs and lows in it but i also am very blessed to have my wonderful cats to get me over and past my very bad pain days any body out there who deals with pain pets can do wondeful things for you. if you give them love and spend some time with them they will give you great times back to you ....i know with out them i would be a lot worse off then i am ..also fentanly helps a lot but it does not take all pain away just makes it ezer to live with .right britestar .and brian and ask god to help you out he loves us all very much he will hear ....well take care britestar and have a great 2007 keep in touch both of you ....latter

[brightstarlites]

Hello..something good...a company is making a pill for the fentanyl, it will help a lot of people, because some feel the patch and lollipop are dangerous because of the delivery system of them, this will be better for them. It is more controlled and you can only get as much of the medicine as you take by mouth. I prefer the patch because it has helped so much, but this is a great start in another direction for this drug, at least I think so...what do you think?

[brightstarlites]

brightstarlites wrote:

Hello..something good...a company is making a pill for the fentanyl, it will help a lot of people, because some feel the patch and lollipop are dangerous because of the delivery system of them, this will be better for them. It is more controlled and you can only get as much of the medicine as you take by mouth. I prefer the patch because it has helped so much, but this is a great start in another direction for this drug, at least I think so...what do you think?

oH, HERE'S THE SITE FOR THE NEW PILL FORM OF FENTANYL..http://www.fentora.c om/home.aspx?f=1

[tennisvicki]

If someone is on the Fentanyl Patches and drinks excessive amounts of Crown Royal a week could he die from this? My friend does this and he continues to do so.

[greg]

Do not mix drugs with other oral pain killers, whether they are natural or not. Some substances inhibit the metabolism of drugs so drugs accumlate in the blood and can cause severe side effects. look here for adverse reaction with or without other drugs: www.adverse-drug-reaction.net

[Halloween Jack]

tennisvicki wrote:

If someone is on the Fentanyl Patches and drinks excessive amounts of Crown Royal a week could he die from this? My friend does this and he continues to do so.

hello iam sorry to say fentanyl and boooze dont mix it just a ticking bomb have him STOP drinking heavyly or he will die...

[unknown24]

Hi, can you tell me the side effects of drinking heavily (not often, but heavily) and fentanyl 1600? Can the person just become so used to the drug they function fine?

[Jesse]

"unknown24"
Hi, can you tell me the side effects of drinking heavily (not often, but heavily) and fentanyl 1600? Can the person just become so used to the drug they function fine?

"unknown24"
Side effects? Death..........

[Sad]

My friend just died from mixing fentanayl and alcohol. Please tell your friends and family how dangerous this is.

[bunnie]

I am having lot of trouble getting out of pain, I just had triple fusion of the cspine for the second time. Im 2 inches taller now. The duragesic works well only it won't stay on, any suggestions?