what is subsys used for?
ï· SUBSYS is used to manage breakthrough pain in adults with cancer, who are already routinely taking other opioid pain medicines around-the-clock for cancer pain. ï· SUBSYS is started only after you have been taking other opioid pain medicines and your body has become used to them (you are opioid tolerant).
Subsys is a form of sublingual spray used to treat patients with breakthrough cancer pain. Breakthrough cancer pain is often described as intense, almost sudden, moments of pain, that sometimes last as long as 5 or 7 minutes. Subsys is an opioid. It contains the medicine fentanyl.