The lydocaine patches are fab but can only be worn for 12 hours at a time after that you have to wait another 12 hours to reapply .... It has its goods and bad points x
I wear them both x

only patch i use is a natural one with willow bark. helps. has a bunch of other natural ingredients too.

I've been on butrans for three years now and I have to say they are great.
They seem to me and can I just say this is my experience of them it my not be yours, but to me they make my other drugs that much more effective and where you wear them a week and then change them it's a constant supply, it did make me a little itchy under the patch the first few weeks but it was my skin adjusting to having medicine absorbed through my skin rather then taken orally.
They need to be worn above the heart so arms, shoulders back, front etc ... And you'll get asked how the giving up of smoking a going .. As they look like smokers patches but they really do help x dependant on her weight the starting patch size is 5microns x going up in 5's x good luck x

I wish you all the luck with your meds. ...it's so hard when your immune system gets thrown into the loop.

In Canada I've been on suboxone. . Sublingual Which was great in the beginning. .then I crashed again. ..so tired of the crashing of medications. .