Morphine Problems

I have been getting very aggrovated recently; snapping at the smallest thing it didnt even occur to me that it could be that the morphine patch could not be working as well.

I have been in more pain recently, the stairs are taking a little longer to climb, small tasks i was able to do are taking at least twice as long but it hadnt clicked. Well not until Friday. Tuesdays are the day i put my Morphine 7 day patch onto my arm it sticks on my arm like a nicotine style patch giving morphine through the skin but this time it starting itching within a very short period of time. Then the itching started turning to a burning sensation.

Friday morning i took the patch off because it was such hot weather, underneath the patch was a very bad very red and sore looking burn that had started to blister and bubble under the skin and was turning a little yellow and was oozing. Obviously if this was happening to the skin then the morphine wasnt getting through leaving me in pain.

Very early friday after i called to make an appointment at the doctors and showed him my arm he said that i was badly allergic to the glue in the morphine patch and said that i would not be able to take the morphine patch but the prescribed me fentanyl 25 patches ( he told me the glue was different)told me to take these for 2 weeks and then contact him if these were not strong enough and to get some more after the 2 weeks if there were. So we got home and put the new patch on my arm.

I did not sleep very well that night and eventually fell asleep around 6am i suppose the Morphine had worn off but yet the Fentynl hadnt kicked in yet as that takes a while. Then i fell asleep right through to about 7pm the following eventually sleeping for 13 hours i am not sure how i feel now i know i am in less pain but i feel kinda floaty and not really here. We tried to secure the new fentanyl patch on ( which is a small stamp sized clear patch) with some plaster only to find that i had become allergic to the plaster too! not having a good time!

Hope i feel better soon its my birthday tomorrow.