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What is a effective pain medicine thats not addictive for a bc patient that sumttimes still have severe episodes sumtimes from the strong chemo taken?

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Dr. Vasu Brown answered

Specializes in Integrative Medicine

Md consult: Your doctor would decide medication for you- if you have chemo i would not worry about addiction issues. The latest pain patch i'n market is butrens and there are lots of combination pills with opioid and a blocker.

Answered 2/1/2015

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Dr. Ed Kaplan answered

Specializes in Hematology and Oncology

Depends: What is cause of pain? Neuropathic may be treated differently from other ( scar, musculoskeletal, cancer pain, etc). Tramadol or Nucynta (tapentadol) may appropriate strong pain killers that are probably not addictive.

Answered 6/30/2014

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