Most palliative care patients with chronic pain have been prescribed around-the-clock pain medication. Reason tells us that if the patient is taking something around-the-clock then they should also be prescribed something for breakthrough pain - just in-case. Breakthrough pain is the pain that "breaks through" regularly schedules doses of pain medication. Unfortunately, medication isn't always prescribed for breakthrough pain and patients don't always take as much as they are allowed.
Breakthrough pain is almost always treatable and shouldn't be ignored or accepted as and "inevitable" part of illness. Learn how to recognize breakthrough pain, what could be causing it, and how you can help treat it.
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