Fentanyl Sandoz
Fentanyl Sandoz patches provide strong and long-lasting pain relief for adults and children over 2 years old who need continuous pain management.
Form
depotlaastari
Strength
12.5 mikrog/tunti
Active Ingredient
Fentanyl
Manufacturer
Sandoz A/S
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor will prescribe the correct patch strength. Each patch contains medicine designed to be released continuously for 3 days (72 hours).
Method
Change the patch every three days (72 hours), always at the same time of day. Remove the old patch before applying a new one. For adults, apply to a flat area of the upper body or arm; for children, always to the upper back. Avoid joints, irritated, broken, or very hairy skin, and do not reuse the same spot.
Important
The maximum daily dose is continuous and determined by the prescribed patch strength, releasing medicine steadily for 72 hours.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Nausea, vomiting, constipation
- •Drowsiness
- •Dizziness
- •Headache
- •Allergic reaction
- •Loss of appetite
- •Sleep difficulties
- •Depression
- •Agitation or confusion
- •Seeing, feeling, hearing, or smelling things that are not there (hallucinations)
- •Muscle tremors or spasms
- •Unusual skin sensations, such as tingling or crawling (paresthesia)
- •Spinning sensation (vertigo)
- •Fast or irregular heartbeat (palpitations, tachycardia)
- •High blood pressure
- •Shortness of breath (dyspnea)
- •Diarrhea
- •Dry mouth
- •Stomach pain and digestive problems
- •Heavy sweating
- •Itchy skin, rash, and redness
- •Difficulty urinating or inability to empty bladder completely
- •Severe tiredness, weakness, or general feeling of illness
- •Feeling cold
- •Swelling of hands, ankles, or feet (peripheral edema)
RARE
- •Unusual drowsiness, slower or shallower breathing than normal
- •Sudden swelling of the face or throat, severe skin irritation, redness, or blistering (allergic reaction)
- •Seizures
- •Impaired consciousness or unconsciousness
- •Agitation or disorientation (loss of sense of time and place)
- •Strong feeling of well-being (euphoria)
- •Reduced sense of touch or sensitivity, especially in the skin (hypoesthesia)
- •Memory loss (amnesia)
- •Blurred vision
- •Slow heartbeat (bradycardia) or low blood pressure
- •Bluish skin due to low oxygen in blood (cyanosis)
- •Lack of bowel movements (ileus)
- •Itchy rash (eczema), allergic reaction, or other skin disorder at the patch site
- •Flu-like illness
- •Feeling of altered body temperature
- •Fever
- •Muscle twitching
- •Difficulty getting and maintaining an erection (impotence) and problems with sexual intercourse
- •Difficulty swallowing
- •Constriction of eye pupils (miosis)
- •Interrupted breathing (apnea)
- •Lack of male hormones (androgen deficiency)
- •Delirium (a state of severe confusion, including agitation, restlessness, disorientation, fears, hallucinations, sleep problems, nightmares)
- •Addiction
Important Warnings
- Do not use Fentanyl Sandoz if you are allergic to fentanyl or any of its ingredients, have short-term pain (like acute pain or post-surgery pain), or experience slow or shallow breathing.
- Fentanyl Sandoz can cause life-threatening side effects in people who do not regularly use doctor-prescribed opioid pain medicines.
- Fentanyl Sandoz can be life-threatening for children; both used and unused patches are dangerous if a child gets hold of them or puts them in their mouth, which can lead to death. Store this medicine in a safe place, out of reach of children and others.
- Apply the patch only to the person it was prescribed for; if the patch sticks to another person's skin, remove it immediately and contact a doctor.
- Do not expose the patch or the application area to direct heat, such as heating pads, hot water bottles, long hot baths, sunbathing, or saunas, as this can increase medicine absorption.
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- Avoid alcohol consumption while using Fentanyl Sandoz, unless specifically approved by your doctor.
- Do not use Fentanyl Sandoz during pregnancy without your doctor's advice, and not during childbirth due to potential effects on newborn breathing. Do not breastfeed during treatment or for three days after removing the patch, as the medicine can pass into breast milk.
- Fentanyl Sandoz may cause drowsiness and dizziness, so do not drive or operate machinery until you know how it affects you.