Hi thanks so much for the replies. No they are not the gel I dont think, theyre a clear patch.
Im not using them recreationally, I had a car accident and have had chronic pain for a while and these seemed to be the last resort.
I tried the 25's and they did nothing at all.
With the 50's, when I first put them on, about an hour or two later the pain completely goes away. I also get a slight high, am able to work/do stuff like a normal human being aside from being a little jittery. I become happy and kinda weird, people ask me if Im drunk at times, but that doesnt really bother me.
After about 8 hours of wearing the patch I get really naseous and also start having strange depressing thoughts. I get the shakes and the high feeling wears off.
Ive never worn the 3 day patch (50) for longer than 10 hours because of the side effects.
I cant tell my doctor any of this because he will put me on yet another medication and this is the only one that has worked for the pain.
After I remove the patch, I cant wear another one for the next 2 days and I feel like total shit for those days. I get restless legs, irritable, angry and mean.
I did take the patch off, put it back on the backing strip thingy and put it on afew hours later but youre all right about it losing the effects. Im not sure it was actually working but I didnt get the pain so bad or the restless legs so I assume it was a little bit. Ive found if I leave it off too long though, I cant reuse it because it just wont stick on the skin anymore.
Not sure what to do about this, not even sure Im on the right forum lol.
Has anyone here ever had this same problem? Do the side effects eventually go away?
Now i know your not a recreational user of these patch's i can give you better advice. Im sure you would be able to tell if there the durogesic gel patch's because they feel thicker they are sometimes called solid mass patch's too by dr's although the chances you have one (a gel patch) would be very rare unless you live in country where the D trans patches are a lot more expensive than the original durogesic. In fact im not 100% sure the durogesic gel patch is still made now i think they was discontinued in some countrys recently. From my experience the strange feeling tends to go away from them after around a month or two. Mine was intially a weird feeling that woke me up for some reason feeling very strange then 5 mins later i could feel my breathing was to slow and had a sudden urge to remove that patch instantly thinking im overdosing. It sounded like just as you described although may vary from person to person. My advice to you would be if you can wear the 25mcg patch for 3 days without having to take it off id try devideing the 50mcg patch into 3/4's deviating on the slightly under side of 3/4's of a patch which would work out to a 25mcg patch and a 12mcg patch applied at the same time. It is ok to use a ruler and biro to write on them to know where to cut to devide equally. Your other option would be to wear half a patch = to a 25mcg one then cut the other half of the patch into 6 equal pieces and suck on one piece up to twice daily if you need too. Sucking on a patch cut to a predetermined dose will not normally cause overdoses in opiate tollerant people as long as no other drugs are involved. 
