I too am taking 2 types of pain perscriptions for chronic lower back pain. My Doctor perscribed Fentanyl patch, 75mg. and percocet10/325 as needed for spiking pain or as a caryover for patch as it is most strongest at 1st day but does not help on the 3rd day as perscribed.
I often have periods of temp. spiking and sweating periods all over body for about a 5 min. period, then it seems to calm down. This can happen daily , sometimes twice a day. I have had a blood test by doctor to check testosterone level which came back normal. I am at a loss as what to do about this and have to wonder if this medication is the cause.
I get those fluctuations too, Mawmaw, but I know for me, it's definitely NOT just a side effect of medication. It's my injury/condition/nervous system dysfunctions that do it. With Adhesive Arachnoiditis you get Central Pain and I (personally) also have full body RSD/CRPS from the spinal cord injury that started this whole thing! Specifically, its the thalmus in the brain that starts firing willy-nilly because 1.)the nerves are all glued together from the Arachnoiditis and 2.) Chronic pain syndromes of all sort will affect it.
Best to you and yours,
Radene
6 months later I read about all this I suffer from Chronic Pain and recently my son has been ill and had the diagnosis like me in the beginning of FM however they just put him on the Fentynal Patch 25 mg tried the opana he cant take morphine they physican he sees does not believe in BTP ha anyhow I use to be on this patch 75 mg and it does not work 3 days in fact it is not working for him at all I really think he has more wrong and the drs assumption for fm because I live with it and he has leg pain so bad In the beginning 7 years ago I did this but my son is hot and sweats and with the legs and they have done one mri of spine but nothing to do with lower back of course I have the djd and buldging l4 l5 found after my FM hit me I thought Id been dropped after gallbladder surgery My daughter had been diagnosis 3 years prior You would think a person could find decent drs my point to this is I think something is more wrong with my son the fentanal patch is not working one bit for his legs and a year ago he had trouble with his neck and cervical area just these drs like to play around and not get to the bottom and my lack of energy due to my disability I find hard to manage this last post got my attention can you elaborate further on diagnosis you resemble my son
Sure. as you said six months later still the same problem with about 8 sweating hot periods per day. I do think that it is like the previous person said I do feel like it due not from the medications but from nerve and spinal problems where the brain is misfiring. I need to due some research on this RSD thing and will get back to you. J
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johnnie
i have those incidents happen to me - except with me, i'm pretty sure it is a side effect to my medication. i am a compounding pharmacy technician (i make a lot of the medication that we all use, including injectables and controlled drugs). I am sure you are on a regular dose of medication and have been for a while - well, if you deviate from that, it is alost like a withdrawal symptom. i sometimes forget what time i took my medicine, and then before you know it, i am sweating and feeling crappy. from my discussions with my pharmacist, i have concluded just how important it is to stick with your schedule. this has been my experience, yours could be something else? God Bless
kelliann