Is Fentanyl Effective At Treating Pain Due To Pancreatitis?

Posted on Fri, 24 Nov 2017

Question: My husband have merkel cell for the last 2.5 years he had surgery in the mama first time and they performed 3 metastasis near the primary . They did aPET SCAN and it was metastasis in the liver, abdomen and pelvis he start taking Chemo with a great success no even vomiting and disappearing the little balls. Two weeks ago after chemo he had a big pain and he develop pancreatitis now he is in hospice in the house but I do not like they are given him fentanyl 50, he come back some times but most of the time he is out. We have being married for 58 years .HE IS 78 now and had a stroke in 2001 hemiplegic but I feel horrible. Waiting for advise

Answered by Dr. Dr. Esmeralda Sera (6 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Fentanyl 50 can be reduced

Detailed Answer:
Hello and thank you for asking

It is good news that chemotherapy had good results in terms of disease progression

But now as you said after pancreatitis he developed pain. I believe he has taken the medication for the pancreatitis

One of side effects of fentanyl its sleepiness, so in my opinion if he have such side effects the dose can be reduced to 25

Feel free to ask further

Regards

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