If you have metastatic liver cancer, make sure you get well informed about pain relief.
Says the doctor: “your pain will go from little to bad to worse” yet we will give you pain medication for each of these 3 stages (little, bad, worse…no kidding)
Pain medication
Apart from having to live with a cancer, you will have to live with the side effects of your pain medication: constipation.
Ok you say, I can live with that…
You will be told you get:
- a mild painkiller like paracetamol,
- then to a stronger painkiller like tramadol or contramal and
- then you get morfine.
The ‘nobody told me this’ metastatic liver cancer story
- In case you never saw a police movie… morfine: people use it to escape from this world… So actually your cancer will shoot you off this planet, if not morfine will. And try to act normal after finishing a bottle of whiskey, so imagine what happens when taking morfine pain medication…
- In between the stages your pain is too much for the pain medication to take. You have to find this out by experience (that hurts!)… And you need to wait until the new pain medication works (that’s hell!)
- Nobody told us that if all this doesn’t wipe you out, they will give some Haldol to make you less restless…. in other words 2 negations:
more medicine to make you rest….