See the pain medication stages for my metastatic liver cancer summarized in my previous post: cancer and liver pain.
Cancer pain management stage 1 : paracetamol
This was "easy": I feel pain so I try 500mg paracetamol, if that doesn’t work, I try the 500mg again. My doctor complained I should take the 1000mg or nothing… Brand-name is Dafalgan and it is in tablets that makes bubbles in water 🙂
Cancer pain management stage 2: tramadol
In the beginning of this week, I could not bare the pain. Luckily my son was at home and gave me 10 drops of Tramadol, which after some time eased the pain. 10 drops of Tramadol every 6 hours. Then the pain came back, so 10 drops was not enough. I got 15 drops, but then needed to vomit, so I wondered that it was caused by the Tramadol, so I said: no more!
Yet then the pain became so much that I just told my son: do whatever! Too much pain made me unreasonable. Smart son gave me Dafalgan + 5 drops of Tramadol and now I know he topped off my yogurt with 10 extra drops of Tramadol (this is what I call the top 10 painkillers…) Just as well as it did relief the pain and without pain I can think clear again.
Now I have to keep in mind that there is no exact dose: when my metastatic liver cancer grows, the pain grows, so the amount of pain medication grows.
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