If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. Patients who run into barriers when seeking appropriate pain treatment often become angry and have attitude changes, according to Dr. Bridenbaugh.
Patients become very cynical, very distrusting and angry.
They're not sure how to get around these barriers. And they still have to deal with their pain. But in reality, the best treatment is usually a combination of medications used in lower doses that reduce side effects. Also, there are a variety of nerve blocking procedures that can be used to treat pain that can replace drugs and have no side effects. Dr. Bridenbaugh says eight million Americans have cancer, of which nearly half suffer from some level of pain.