OMG!! My mom was rushed to the hospital yesterday and it looks like the same thing. She had been on the Fentanyl patch because of cancer and several times she has gone unresponsive and her blood pressure plummeted. I told my sis yesterday to take the patch off of her(not the first time we have done that). The nurses at the hospital apparently told her she didn’t have to do it....blah, blah, blah....but she did anyway. When her Doctor got there, she said they were taking Mom off the patch.
Interesting. I wonder if there are some bad batches of this patch out on the market, because sometimes Mom would tolerate it fine and then after I came back home for the holidays, she started having problems.
Thanks for posting this. Calling my sis ASAP!!
I posted the first few paragraphs. Make sure you follow the link and read the entire page. There is a lot more information.
Prayers for you and your mom.
“Interesting. I wonder if there are some bad batches of this patch out on the market, because sometimes Mom would tolerate it fine and then after I came back home for the holidays, she started having problems.”
I was on the fentanyl patches for six months. Where they were put on and what the temperature was had a major effect on how much of the drug was delivered to my system.
I went into awful depressions when the drug did not get into my system, and got “high” when I got too much.
They are VERY unpredictable in my opinion.