You sound like me are probably metabolizing painkillers faster than a standard person. This is where the one approach does not work; I knew it was about to be spent on day six, and I would slap on the next patch to try and avoid this. Oxy detoxing sucks that I know.

The only way I ever got through this issue was to go off the patch for a week every two months and take oxy only so that one extra patch I saved gave me the additional six days I needed. You could always ask your doctor to prescribe 1 x 20mg patch every six weeks, so your insurance sees that as another medicine, which therefore buys you the extra week you need. Doctors do not understand that we all metabolize at different rates, so a 4ft 10" 110-pound person is given the same dose as a 6ft 6" 270-pound person because that is on the box as the dosage. Roll on the time your medicine is compounded based on some genetic test that considers how your body behaves regarding that medicine.