Our first article, Easing Pain in the Sick and Dying, is an interesting
article dealing with improvements in pain medication (medicines like Tylenol
and its stronger siblings) in the last few years. This article is in
interview format.
Do you know
someone who has suffered from chronic (long lasting) pain?
What effect do you
think improvements in pain medication will have on people? Why?
This article talked about pain control. There are three kinds of pain: acute, chronic and breakthrough. Also, doctors are studying about them. Patients could be ease their pain by taking drugs. However, drugs should be limited because people can be addicted to drugs.
ReplyDelete-Miyeon Lee
Yes, I know a person that suffered it, she died three weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteWhat I heard about her explanation of what she had, sometimes the doctors, and her family tried to know what she had, most of the doctors said she had flu, fever, psicological problems, etc. Unluckily, the medicine in my country is not as advanced as US medicine, so the doctor declared that she had Long Lasting Pain, but it happened one year ago, and her illness began whe she was 35 and she dead when she was 51. For avoid those problems the doctor could just recomended some pills and organic medicine (drink relaxing tea, drink aloe smoothies, eat more salads, go to the hot springs, etc.) because he didn't know what she had exactly. And what would help her was a palliative therapy like in one of the opinions in the link said.
I don't know anyone who has suffered from chronic pain.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the article, when someone has chronic pain, he/she has to live with it because it's hard to treat. And if there is improvements in pain medication, people who suffers from this problem will have a better quality of life.