Hello Lesley. I know that chronic pain is a miserable thing. Had you been on strong pain medication prior to the patch? I hope you find out that it is causing low sodium so it can be corrected. If this is a once weekly patch you might feel better in a couple of days. Perhaps your doctor needs to give you something else as ingredient in the patch is strong. Best of luck to you.

Oh. no, I hope u improve or they find something else.

I have lidoderm patches.. they take the edge off but don’t last too long..

Hope to get results early next week. Taken the patch off today and will give it a week without to see if there's any difference.

Many thanks. Just having many side effects etc nausea, calf muscle pain, tiredness etc. Been on them for 6 weeks and had blood tests today. Think they are dropping my sodium levels?