Yes a lot of patients are able to live a normal life with the medications and that’s the whole point of the medications. When we prescribe a medication for chronic pain what we’re looking for is to have any increase in the functionality and/or a decrease in the overall pain level so if we provide…
We have a variety of reasons why there are certain days where your pain may be worse. Maybe because you had extra physical activity the same day or the day before, maybe weather changes or maybe just a progression of the disease. Oftentimes people on chronic pain will have a certain baseline of medication and…
Oftentimes the answer is no. When we have people come in that have been in pain for say 5,10 or 15 years we go through their physical examination and their history, their previous treatment modalities, and we’re able to find the various things that they haven’t been able to use or have not used thus…
The reason some people need to take more medication for the same effect is because you can become tolerant to the medications. If your body consistently sees the medication on a daily basis what it does is it stops reacting as it did before so for the same amount of medication you may have less…