The new medication's working...I can feel it here.

It took a while, but I finally got the right routine down with the Fentanyl patch, and it's my new wonder drug. It's handling the pain better and without the fogginess, fatigue or GI issues of the morphine or oxycontin. And I'm taking fewer Norco, which is my current breakthrough medication. The only trouble is getting the damn things to stick to my skin for three days. For now I'm covering them with heavy-duty gauze dressing tape, but it's not perfect. But it's worth the hassle to finally -- after nearly five years -- find a long-acting pain medication that WORKS!