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In the cancer, the pain appears by the pressure of a cancerous tumor on the bones, the nerves or the organs of the body, or why the treatments against the cancer also can provoke pain. Other times it cannot be related to the cancer or his treatment, can be a pain caused by headaches, arthritis and others like any another person.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
In general he must not wait until the pain should be intense before taking the medicines prescribed against the pain. It is easier to control the pain when it is light that when it is severe. The medicines must take regularly as the doctor indicates it. The scientific studies demonstrate that it is very strange that the patients become addicted to the medicines against the pain.
Developing a "tolerance" to the medicine does not mean that this accent of working, but it will be necessary to change the dose (quantity) or to add other medicines to manage more I relieve.
Many patients, especially men, think that to speak on his pain is a sign of weakness. In fact, to speak on the pain and his intensity allows to the doctor to find the best treatments to relieve it. The patients who do not suffer pain eat, sleep and rest better, and all this helps in the treatment against the cancer.
FORMS OF TREATMENT
The treatment more often used are the analgesics, but sometimes there is used the surgery, the radiotherapy and other treatments to give major mitigation against the pain.
MEDICINES
The treatments against the pain have different effect in every patient. For it to select the suitable medicine it is necessary to know the medicines against the pain that has taken in the past, and if they were effective, the possible allergies that he endures and the worries and worries that it has as for the medicines or the treatment against the cancer.
1. - Medicines against the pain caused by the cancer: For the light pain to moderated.
- Medicines not derived from the opium (not opiates): Paracetamol or anti-inflammatory not esteroideos, like the aspirin and the ibuprofen. Some of these medicines do not need medical recipe.
- For the pain moderated to severe
- Opiates (derivatives of the opium): Morphine, hidromorfina, oxicodona, or codeine. All these medicines are excused by medical recipe.
Both types of analgesics can be used in combination.
For the pain with itch (hormigueante) or the pain with ardor
- Antidepressants: Amipriptilina, imipramine, doxepina or trazodona. They are necessary medical recipe.
- Anticonvulsive: Carbamazepina and fenitoina. They are necessary medical recipe.
- For the pain caused by the distension
- Steroids: Prednisona, dexametasona. They are necessary medical recipe.
2. - Side effects of the medicines against the pain
- Stomachache or bled.
- It is necessary to treat appropriately before they appear.
- Constipation. To diminish this one must drink a lot of not alcoholic liquids, and eat more fruits and vegetables, and do exercise.
- Morning sickness and vomiting. They usually yield alone in a few days
- Sleep.
- Slower respiration.
3. - Forms of administration
- Tablets, capsules or syrups for mouth.
- Rectal suppositories (medicines that interfere for the rectum so that the body absorbs them across the intestine).
- Patches that contain medicine and are placed in the skin so that they are absorbed by the body (patch transdermales).
- Injections. The needle of the syringe is used to introduce the medicine to the body.
They can be:
- Subcutaneous injection: The medicine is administered under the skin using a short needle.
- Intravenous injection: The medicine is administered straight in the vein like a whey.
- Epidural (intratecal): The medicine is administered straight to the interior of the space epidural placed in the spine.
OTHER FORMS OF TREATMENT OF THE PAIN
- Radiotherapy. This treatment provides mitigation because it reduces the size of the tumors, therefore the pressure on the bones is minor.
- Medicines to block the nerves. Anesthetic places are injected straight about the affected nerve. As if it was an anesthesia of the dentist.
- Neurosurgery. There are cut the nerves that transmit the pain.
- Surgery. It is used to extract part or the whole tumor and to achieve a mitigation in the pressure on the bones.
WHAT DOCTOR CAN TREAT ME?
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