A few questions

Get in touch with you local hospice. I did, and my GP and cancer team are happy about their expertise.

I’m full of metastasises in the bones. Hips, ribs and the worse ones are in the thoracic region of my spine. This causes me lots of pain.

I have paracetamol (8/day) gabapentin (200mg/3 times a day) morphine slow release capsules (10mg twice a day) codeine (15mg 4/day) and oral morphine (10ml at 5mls up to 6/day) as needed.

This is at the moment low doses because my back pain has only been out of control for a month or ) weeks.

The pain nurse at the hospice is regularly checking my situation and writes letters to my GP to advise of any changes.

Get ahead of the pain and stay ahead of the pain with expert help 24/7. Don’t be in pain, you don’t need to be.

Any questions?

Thank you 

Hi Thomsoa, U has given you great advice but I wanted to add that my partner also had a back pain during his chemo treatment (docetaxel) and back pain could be a side effect from it.

hi. ive got metastasis cancer in my spine amongst other places,  whilst having chemotherapy my back pain increased for the first 3 infusions but then settled down . they said it was the cancer shrinking and leaving open nerves. I asked for oramorph from my doctor but only needed it for a couple of weeks. I only take paracetamol when needed now. 

Thank you so much does make you feel better to talk especially to people who are in the same position 

Oh thank you so much 

My husband has metastasis cancer in his spine, which causes shoulder and neck pain. I have Oramorph from the doctor but have been reluctant to give it to him yet as not sure of the side effects. Did you have any? He has only been prescribed 1mg.

Gina

My goodness, how on earth do you cope with all those pain relieving drugs. Do they work? Presumably you started with paracetamol, so how did you progress and what to and in which order if you don't mind telling me.

I not you say in the hospice, so is that where you now live?

Gina

I only used it a few times .  I try not to use any pain relief at present.  Im kind of saving everything until things get really bad. when I did use it I got better sleep. I had 5mg

Thanks. Maybe I will try at bedtime. I know everyone will be shocked, but our wonderful doctor is actually popping in to see him tonight as I said I was a bit worried about his mobility. This is probably down to his dementia which we found out after his stroke last year. He is the most amazing GP and has often either rung me out of surgery hours or popped in for a well being check. We are soooo lucky.