Christine Dabney > said:

>On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:26:47 -0500, Damsel >
>wrote:
>
>>He put the last of the five patches on this morning. He is still lucid. I
>>think the problems occur when the fentynal builds up in your system. He
>>didn't start getting sloppy drunk-like until he'd been on the patch for a
>>week. We're going to keep an eye on things.
>
>Hmmmmmmmm...Fentanyl has a very short half life, which means it
>doesn't last very long. Like less than a half hour, if I remember
>correctly.
>Not sure if it can build up in your system like that.... I never heard
>of it doing that, but I could be totally wrong on this.

Dunno, but after he started taking it, he gradually became more and more
disoriented, with slurred speech, virtually no depth perception, and was
unable to get out of bed or sit upright in a chair. Took a week to get
that bad, then it just kept getting worse and worse.

We're seeing the doctor in the morning about maybe using patches of a lower
dosage, or changing meds altogether. I'm not sure what he has in mind, but
he asked us to come in. I'll report back.

Carol