When I asked my nurse how people decide when to use the MAID, she said when it gets to be too much; when it gets too hard to breath, or they're in a lot of pain.
The fentanyl patch gets changed every third day. It's a thin film about the size of a nickel. It goes on at a different spot each time. It suppresses most of the pain of the angina. I still take isosorbide dinitrate, PRN. My guess is that someday the combination won't work and the angina'll take over.
Fentanyl causes constipation. I have a choice of several laxatives. The trick is figuring out how much of what to take. So far I'm either on the toilet or thinking about having to get on the toilet.
Combined with the urinary urgency: the feeling that I suddenly have to pee, which arises every 20 minutes or so, I'm kept hopping.
It's discouraging when I don't make it to the pot in time. Sometimes it gets contained in the diaper sometimes it slips out.
I'd hoped the fentanyl would give me more energy but as it is, it's all I can do to get to and from the bathroom.
Maybe it'll change but it's been like this now for two weeks.
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