Also why are they permenant? I hope to get a throughout answer to this because I seriously want to know about this patch that I wore years ago for a few months that had a permenant effect on me.
2006-12-04 16:32:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
Does anyone here know of a patch that is used to control excessive emotion? They put me on that when they shoudn't have years ago and I got left with no emotion and it's too late to ask them that.
2006-12-04 16:47:10 · update #1
There are no patches used to deliver medication that are permanent, so I have no clue what you are talking about. There are several types of medications that can be absorbed through the skin, called transdermal administration, but none of them are permanently affixed to skin. It would be impossible to do for one thing. Transdermal medications are used to help with cardiac pain, motion sickness, and birth control, and a few other conditions- and with the exception of the birth control patch, they get changed at least daily in most cases. The only other kind of patch I can think of you would wear that had a permanent effect would be a patch worn to correct a condition called lazy eye, where you cover the good eye for several months to force the lazy eye to work. But that doesn't involve any kind of medicine in the sense that you are talking about. You would do better to find the medical doctor who treated you and has your medical record to give you an explaination. Because what you are asking doesn't make much sense, honestly.
2006-12-04 16:41:42 · answer #1 · answered by The mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medications come in different forms.... pills, creams/ointments, liquid for drinking, liquid for injection (shots), or in a patch. In the patch form, the medication is absorbed through the skin into your blood stream. Some patches are changed every day - some every three days - some once a week - and some are put on in the morning and taken off at bedtime.
The reason you have to change the patches and put a new one on is because the medication in the patch gets used up and the medication in your body gets used up. The medicines don't last permanently. If you think you have had a permanent effect from a medication you need to talk to a doctor about the medication you were on and the effect you think you had from it.
We can not help you because we don't know the name of the medication that was in the patch. Sorry...I hope you get this straightened out.
2006-12-04 16:43:53 · answer #2 · answered by yakimaniacs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A patch with a slow-released medication is called a transdermal patch, which just means "through the skin" and most do not have a permanent effect. An exception would be something like a growth hormone or testosterone or estrogen to replace something missing.
Call the doctor who prescribed the patches because this is part of your medical history you need to know. If you were still a child, your parents may have the answer you need. It's possible that the "permanent effect" just happened to coincide with the transdermal medication, not cause it.
2006-12-04 16:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what kind of patch and medicine it was, there are different kinds.
2006-12-04 16:36:58 · answer #4 · answered by T.K. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋