Pain control for bone mets

[chrislmelb]

I am just wondering what people do? Last Tuesday i was put on Targin (read Oxycontin) 10mg twice a day and panadol osteo 3-4 times a day. I still have alot of discomfort but am not convinced it is just the mets. I was reading last night on the net and some people were saying the oxycintin didn't help them but Ibruprofen did etc etc
So what do all you girls take?

[Jackie07]

Hi Christine,

Just read your other posting about confirmed bone mets...

The medicine your doctor prescribed are for osteoarthritis and pain control.
Below are the links to the two medicine precribed by your doctor:

http://www.gsk.com.au/products_consumer-healthcare-products_product-listing.aspx?view=51 (http://www.gsk.com.au/products_consumer-healthcare-products_product-listing.aspx?view=51)
Panadol Osteo is a sustained release formulation that can provide long-lasting relief from persistent pain such as that associated with Osteoarthritis…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone)
Oxycodone oral medications are generally prescribed for the relief of moderate to severe pain. Currently it is formulated as single ingredient products or compounded products. Some common examples of compounding are oxycodone with acetaminophen/paracetamol or NSAIDs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID) such as ibuprofen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibuprofen). The formulations are available as generics but are also made under various brand names. OxyContin is Purdue Pharma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma)'s brand for time-release (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_release_technology) oral oxycodone. The manufacturing rights to time-released generic oxycodone are under dispute.


Hope you will feel better soon. [Be sure to contact your doctor before you change/add any medicine by yourself...]

[chrislmelb]

Thanks Jackie, i know they are pain meds. Thanks for all those references. I am just wondering what others take as mine don't seem to do enough. No spots in particular stand out more so i am just after more even coverage.
Thanks

[Joan M]

Christine,

I never had bone mets (only lung and brain mets), but I've heard that radiofrequency ablation (RFA, which is not radiation, but rather radio waves) can be used sometimes to deaden bone pain from mets. (Or as one IR doc said to me once, it's a great feeling to see a mets patient get off the table after the procedure and walk away without hip or leg pain.)

Regardless of what your oncologist would say, you would need to speak directly to an interventional radiologist, which is the type of doctor that performs this procedure, to determine whether mets are the cause of the pain and whether they can do the procedure.

Basically, an IR doc can sometimes us RFA to ablate the nerve that causes the pain, depending on the location.

Praying that you find relief and just exactly what is causing the pain.

Joan