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Suggest Safe Medicine For Bone Cancer

my husband has widespread bone cancer and is in pain, he is allergic to all the pain meds he has ever tried such as dilaudid, oxycodone,percocet, ibuprofen. all of cause a bad headache and n/v. is the same ingredient in all these meds so that we will know what it is he cannot take. we still have not found any pain meds he can take to get any relief
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There are a few options available for ameliorating your husbands' pain. Firstly, you can try opioids like morphine tablets. These can be taken from a dose of 5mg thrice daily to 30mg thrice daily. There is a fentanyl patch available that you can stick on any non-hairy area of the body and it will relieve pain for 3 days when it needs to be changed. Start with a 25mg dose and if required move to a 50mg dose. Also, bone cancer pain can be decreased with Inj Zoledronic Acid 4mg intravenous in 100ml normal saline over 20 minutes, given every month. Lastly, giving short course radiotherapy to the painful area will decrease the pain and chance of fracture.
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Suggest Safe Medicine For Bone Cancer

There are a few options available for ameliorating your husbands pain. Firstly, you can try opioids like morphine tablets. These can be taken from a dose of 5mg thrice daily to 30mg thrice daily. There is a fentanyl patch available that you can stick on any non-hairy area of the body and it will relieve pain for 3 days when it needs to be changed. Start with a 25mg dose and if required move to a 50mg dose. Also, bone cancer pain can be decreased with Inj Zoledronic Acid 4mg intravenous in 100ml normal saline over 20 minutes, given every month. Lastly, giving short course radiotherapy to the painful area will decrease the pain and chance of fracture.