the highly addictive drug fentanyl, because of a rare and excruciatingly painful nerve condition which started 20 years ago. it is as if somebody stuck a cattle prod to the side of my face. it s extraordinary, overwhelming pain. i literally hit the floor and it basically destroyed my life. 0pioid painkillers, including codeine, fentanyl and morphine, are a huge benefit to some people but they are generally only recommended for short term pain. niki has learnt pain management techniques which means she can now cope without taking fentanyl but she has been left with a dangerous dependency that leads to withdrawal when she reduces her dose. this is the patch that i am on, the fentanyl patch. the patch is actually these orange y bits? yes, and you can see this one is a whole one and i ve cut off little bits. this is not the proper way of doing it.
of love and i realised this is withdrawal. nikki has been prescribed powerful painkillers including the highly addictive drug fentanyl, because of a rare and excruciatingly painful nerve condition which started 20 years ago. it is as if somebody stuck a cattle prod to the side of my face. it s extraordinary, overwhelming pain. i literally hit the floor and it basically destroyed my life. opioid painkillers, including codeine, fentanyl and morphine, are a huge benefit to some people but they are generally only recommended for short term pain. niki has learnt pain management techniques which means she can now cope without taking fentanyl but she has been left with a dangerous dependency that leads to withdrawal when she reduces her dose. this is the patch that i am on, the fentanyl patch. the patch is actually these orange y bits? yes, and you can see this one is a whole one and i ve cut
niki has learnt pain management techniques which means she can now cope without taking fentanyl but she has been left with a dangerous dependency that leads to withdrawal when she reduces her dose. this is the patch that i am on, the fentanyl patch. the patch is actually these orange y bits? yes, and you can see this one is a whole one and i ve cut off little bits. this is not the proper way of doing it. they want you to drop down by a whole patch. there is no real exit strategy for these patches. in a bid to withdraw safely, niki shaves off tiny slithers from her fentanyl patches, less than a millimetre at a time. every time i reduce my opioids, my pain increases as i go through the withdrawal process. and then it decreases and i feel so much better each time. and i think that one of the things that would help is for medicine to be a little bit more supportive and a little bit more humble
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