Prescribe a sleeping pill for a limited period of time to determine the benefits and side effects for you
A trusting patient-clinician relationship is key to the development of an effective treatment plan for chronic pain. Construct a unique plan for each patient, taking into consideration the individual’s experience, circumstances, and preferences. The treatment plan should involve multimodal interventions, promote self-management, and enlist the involvement of a health care team.
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Psychiatric comorbidities. Review the past medical history and assess the presence of psychiatric conditions that could affect the patient’s response to chronic pain, communications with the patient about chronic pain, or treatment.
In some cases, the cause is not immediately obvious, but the category of pain is. For example, burning pain starting in the neck and radiating into the fingers could be associated with acute cervical radiculopathy or may evolve to reveal zoster.
Thyroid eye disease – this affects some people who have an overactive thyroid due to Graves’ disease. More rarely, it can occur in patients with hypothyroidism or even normal thyroid function.
Exercise universal precautions for controlled substance prescribing and limit pill count for patients at risk of having their medications diverted
If you’re feeling short of breath, sleep can be tough — propping yourself up or sleeping on your side may help
Fentanyl testing. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid and its metabolites are often missed in urine drug screens. GC/MS or LCMS are relatively good at detecting it and are reasonable confirmatory tests.
The most serious potential adverse effect is respiratory depression accompanied by symptoms of sedation and confusion. It may occur with high dose administration in opioid naïve patients. Opioids, at therapeutic doses, depress respiratory rate and tidal volume.
To optimize pain management, a thorough history and assessment of pain is required prior to initiating treatment.
When attempting to taper down opioid dosing for a patient with complex persistent website dependence, aberrant behaviors and fluctuation in opioid use can occur. The development of protracted abstinence syndrome may lead to worsening pain, declining function, and worsening psychiatric symptoms. Paradoxically, the same symptoms may occur with maintenance of long-term high dose opioid therapy. Pain relief is more complex than analgesia measured by pain scales. Pain relief involves relief in the affective component of the pain experience, as mediated through mesolimbic reward and learning pathways involving the endogenous opioid system.
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). Consider TENS either along with physical therapy or as an adjunct to multimodal treatment. TENS applies low voltage electrical stimulation using skin contact electrodes.