What are the long term effects of fentanyl use?
Question by longview cycle lady: What are the long term effects of fentanyl use?
What are the long term effects of fentanyl use?
I have a cousin who has peripheral neuropathy due to damage from chemotherapy. She takes the fentanyl suckers three times a day, they are 600 mcg. each. Does anyone know what the long term efffects of the use of fentanyl are?
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Answer by ****Sparkles****
She could develop a dependency on the drug and have withdrawal when taken off of the drug.
Answer by Ann Ominous
Aside from developing a horrendous opiate addiction that could take forever to kick there are no lasting long term side effects from fentanyl.
Your major concern should be that she moderate herself and only use the suckers when absolutely necessary – as long term use WILL create a nasty addiction that could stay with her for a very long time.
And as soon as she is able she needs to take a lesser opiate – and continue moving down the opiate line until she needs the lowest dose possible of the weakest opiate.
I was an opiate addict for almost three years and know how terrible it is(it’s absolute hell) – please make sure that your cousin is careful and knows what could possibly lie down the road for her if she continues daily use of such a powerful addictive substance.
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