Doctors are quick to prescribe for pain, but you may decide it's better to just wade it out and wait for the great healer, Time, to do its job. We are so battered by drug company ads that many pop pain relievers, for example, at the slightest twinge of pain. To appreciate the risk-benefit analysis requires an understanding of the drug in question, which doctors have little time or inclination to communicate. So it might pay to invest some time in reading the package inserts and some drug text on the drugs under consideration. Ask the doctor about other drugs available for your medical problem, and why they were not selected.
Hypertension is a classic example, with dozens of different drugs available.
You may have to do some research on your own but you want some idea of the doctors thinking. Ask the doctor how long the drug has been on the market. Drugs are tested on relatively small samples, and it takes years of mass marketing before all the adverse effects, drug interactions and other problems show up. Ask the doctor about other medications to be avoided while taking the drug under consideration. But it doesn't go far enough.