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You must be confused. Fentanyl is only given for long-term pain control (spanning months and years), never for temporary pain, and never given to anyone who is
by copperx 7y ago
You must be confused. Fentanyl is only given for long-term pain control (spanning months and years), never for temporary pain, and never given to anyone who is opiod naive.
- nostrademons 7y agoNot true. Fentanyl is given for acute pain relief to mothers in labor. "No fentanyl" was in our birth plan, and we had our OB look at it before delivering, and her comment was "Realistically, you're not going to get addicted from the doses given in labor, and it gives the attending physician another option if needed, but if you really feel strongly about it..."
- copperx 7y agoI was thinking about the outpatient setting (tooth extraction). Sure, in the hospital you can get fentanyl, Dilaudid, or practically anything.
- hprotagonist 7y agoI’m not confused. I still have the consent paperwork somewhere that lists the drugs; it’s part of the “conscious sedation” cocktail in some places, including at my oral surgeon’s office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_sedation_and_analgesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_sedation_and_analge... postoperative pain management consisted of tylenol and codiene, and I didn’t bother taking it anyway. anyway, my point is merely that fentanyl has legitimate medical uses and that you can indeed have it administered in a medical setting without descending into opioid madness or overdose.