What is the best pain medication for a 75 year old female who has finished chemo for non Hodgkins lymphoma and now has pain all over her body. She does not tolerate codeine well and extra strength Tylenol is simply not enough? We are going to our doctor and would like to have some ideas beforehand. Thanks for your help.
HIT hank for asking to ChatDoctorPost radiotherapy pain is very common and disturbing, most of the painkiller fails to respond particularly common NSAID, and I think opioid is the best choice for this, different brands are available on counter you can have nay one of it or better to have words with her oncologist, one thing I would like to mention here and that is such pain does not cause any harm to the patient accept disturbances but if it is being tolerated by patient then it won't be troublesome, have nice day.