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That I understand, The fentanyl lollipop has completely changed battlefield pain relief, it's also been used for cancer patients. Morphine can take 15-20 minute
by microcolonel 9y ago
That I understand, The fentanyl lollipop has completely changed battlefield pain relief, it's also been used for cancer patients. Morphine can take 15-20 minutes to kick in, and needs to be injected into muscle, whereas the fentanyl citrate lollipops take considerably less time and can be administered and removed abruptly by putting it in or taking it out of the mouth. It also lacks some of the unpleasant side effects of morphine.
- GordonS 9y agoMorphine can be administered IV too, in which case its effects will be felt immediately. If taken orally, it generally takes around 40 minutes to be felt, the same as for most opioids when taken orally. Do you have a source for fentanyl lollipops acting faster than that? Also, you say it lacks some of the side effects of morphine - do you have a source for that too? Morphine causes respiratory depression, histamine release, constipation, nausea, loss of libido, inability to orgasm; actually, any opioid that doesn't recruit beta-arrestin (such as mitragynine) will have much the same side effects.
- JshWright 9y agoIV fentanyl is a lot faster than IV morphine (3-5 minutes vs 20 minutes for peak analgesia).