Written by admin on 2009-05-18T06:42:57+0000">May 18, 2009 – 6:42 am
Let’s now stop assuming that you have plentiful supplies of any painkiller and get onto the most common obstacle to good pain relief. As I have already indicated, the usual reason for people suffering from poorly controlled cancer pain is that their doctor fails to prescribe enough of a strong enough painkiller. Because all strong painkillers are available only on prescription, you are completely dependent on your doctor(s) to supply them. If you are in hospital, you are dependent both on the doctors and on the nurses for access to painkillers.
What can you do if you are denied access to enough painkillers to give you continuing pain relief? First of all, I’ll remind you that the usual reason for doctors and nurses limiting supplies of painkillers is not cruelty or sadism, but sheer ignorance! So you may be able to overcome your problem by telling your doctors and nurses some of the things you have learned here. I’m sure I don’t have to warn you to try to be diplomatic about this— we all know how doctors hate to feel that their authority is being undermined in any way!
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