My husband and I wore Fentanyl patches in 2007 or 2008 and found them very helpful. The only problem was if we were in the sun the patch would almost give us too much Fentanyl and made us very dizzy and nauseous. They may have fixed them by now. Also, we would get rashes at times from them. Good luck, it is crazy how hard it is to get pain relief when you have a history documenting all of the therapies you have tried or are trying. Doctors seem to go from one extreme to another without taking into account a patient's quality of life.