Morning all I was prescribed BuTrans patxh 10mg. I have had an allergic reaction, my arm where I had the patch came up in blisters.

[gillimac]

They seemed to be helping with my pain.does anyone know if there is an alternative to the patches? Thank you

[Bananas5]

Can you try a different part of you body? Htdacautizone cream is very good applied first if you have an allergic reaction to the patches.

Persivere - they are good.

Pat x

[gillimac in reply to Bananas5]

Hello Pat, initially I was on 5mg patches and they did irritate me slightly, as thks dose wasn't helping me my gp increased the dose to 10mg and thays when the problem really started. I have tried them on my leg vut still have the same pronlem. I must admit that I felt better on 10mg so I really will try to persevere. I am seeing my gp tomorrow evening to try and sort ojt the problem

Keep smiling regards chris

[fitzzy]

I have had the same problem as you. as my skin burns as well . I put them on my back . It is a lot better but it does get very very itchy I was on the plaster ones but now I am on the aluminium patches now and they do not burn me at all . Unless I leave them on longer than 3 days . How long do you leave them on for?. And if it does burn or even go very red and sore I use fusidic acid cream (20mg/g tube 15 g) and it works great .but I am on 52.5 mg patch. Normaly they say do not put a patch back in the same place for a or upto a month but with this cream I canp put one back there after a week I have been on the bupronorphine trans dermal patch for 3 years now hope this helps you

Regards tony

[gillimac]

Hi Tonh.I am on 10mg patch per week.I am allergic to elastoplast so that doesn't help.I am seeing my gp tomorrow evening to see what we can sort out. Regards Chris

[markdt]

Hi gillimac, Buprenorphine also comes in pill form. I take them whe needed, i use the patches too 20mcg. Th butrans pill is a sublingual (under the tongue) type, mine is 400mcg. Ask your gp x

[earthwitch]

right now you don't know if you are allergic to the medicine or to the adhesive or something else on the patch. Allergies can suddenly escalate to dangerous proportions, so I'd not be keen on persisting until checking with your doctor. Apart from checking with your doctor first about applying any creams to try to avoid reaction, I would have thought that using any kind of protective cream like that would either reduce the effectiveness of the absorption, or make the patch slide off, so again - check with your doctor and see what they recommend.

[gillimac in reply to earthwitch]

Hello earthwitch, many thanks for your reply.I am seeimg my gp this evening to try and sort this out regards Chris

[painwhyme]

In a way I am glad for you that has happened they are a terrible drug you would just keep going up and up I started on them now on fentanyl and a junkie as the pain is so bad

Try Ora morph it is better for you so the pain dr told me

Let me know what you do

Debs

[teddybear12]

Hi All

To all of you suffering from an allergic reaction to your patches a severe red very itchy mark that gradually gets worse over the duration of the week, there is a simple remedy that helps relieve the symptoms of the patch & allows you to continue taking it 1 anti histamine tablet a day I personally respond better to loratine since I've been taking my 1 tablet a day the redness & itching is severely reduced. Both my Dr & pain management consultant know I take this tablet & have said it will do no harm with my other meds. I urge you all that are suffering with a bad reaction to try this & I'm surprised DR's don't tell us to try this in the first place it was my friend who is a nurse that told me to start taking the tablet. I now never fail to have it in the morning with the rest of my tablets.

[Poppy_Ann]

Hi Gillimac, the blisters are a comon reaction to the BuTrans patch, i had been using them for a few months and for the first time in years i had a much lower level of pain but when they started burning my skin my doctor took me off them he told me that close to 50% of people on them get the same reaction, now i am on 7 different pain killers one of them being OraMorph which is the same as the patch but in a liquid which i reserve for any time i have to go out as i know no matter what you take for pain relief you get use to and they stop working over time, my main ones i cannot do without are Dihydrocodein 120mg twice a day I know i am addicted to them now after taking them for over ten years.

I once tried stopping them by cutting down due to 3 months worth of all my meds went missing in the post when i was out of the country and was running out but after two days without them i could not move except for shaking all over so in the end i broke down and went to a local doctor in St Martin in the Caribbean and he told me that he cannot prescribe them in the same dose he told me it was against the law to give such a high dose i told him that i had been on them for years i think his problem was that he had not seen them in slow release form before, in the end he prescribed me some of the much smaller dose ones and they cost me $120 for 5 days worth.

I was lucky that someone was coming to see me for a holiday 5 days later and had my next three months worth with her, the missing ones arrived almost 3 months later.

Good luck finding something that works for you.

regards

Poppy Ann.

[biddy75]

I was on butrans, had an adverse reaction so now on palexia(tapenterol) its morphine based to but in a tablet