Treatment for Breakthrough Pain at Home

Breakthrough pain can be a very big problem especially for people that have cancer. These types of pain are sudden occurrences and there is no way to actually predict them from happening.  Normally breakthrough pain occurs when you do something that will trigger extra pain such as getting up after very extensive knee surgery. However, this kind of pain can also occur with any type of trigger. When this type of pain happens, the patient needs to have extra medication to cover the breakthrough pain. There are some drugs that will help you treat this at home and of course, most of the time they are prescribed at home. Medications such as Actiq and Fentora have the narcotic fentanyl which a FDA approved substance for cancer patients that have breakthrough pains and that are already taking opiod. There are also some that can be used for less severe breakthrough pain such as acetaminophen, Percocet or vicodin You should definitely ask you doctor what the best type of narcotic is best for you so that you will get relief from breakthrough pains.  The best thing about breakthrough pain medications is that they are becoming readily available and they can be administered in such a way that it can get into the blood stream very quickly.