Has Anyone Heard Of A Recall On Fentynyl Patches?

drjimmy

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Joined : Dec 2008

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Posted 12/31/2008 12:04 AM (GMT 0)

I'm about to go on the Fentynyl patch and my mother thinks she heard something about a recall of Fentynyl patches. I'm going to research it and check with my doctor, but I wanted to run it by everyone here first. Thanks

Eric

BionicWoman

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Posted 12/31/2008 12:49 AM (GMT 0)

There have been several recalls of Fentanyl patches.

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm#Fentanyl

I always request the pharmacy order the Mylan generic patches. Mylan uses a matrix delivery rather than a gel resevoir and leakage has been the root cause of every patch recall thus far.

JulietteSuzanne

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Posted 1/1/2009 6:28 AM (GMT 0)

I just watched an episode of "Dr. G. Medical Examiner" where one of the defective patches killed a man in his sleep. He took his meds and then put the patch on his shoulder and went to sleep. There was a rupture in the packet and all the medicine leaked too much and too quickly into his body and caused death.

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