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What is Pain management?

In addition to medication adjustments and other therapies pain management may be helped with lifestyle changes such as eating a balanced diet, getting adequate sleep and appropriate exercise.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Chronic pain 22 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Pain 10 1 Efficacy_major
Back pain 6 0
Fibromyalgia 4 1 Efficacy_slight
to get through the day 3 0
Fatigue 2 1 Efficacy_moderate

See all 52 patients currently using Pain management

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 1
Moderate
 2
Mild
 1
None
 3

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Pain management

Hospitalization 4
Depressed mood 1
Excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence) 1
Constipation 1
Muscle and joint pain 1
Chronic constipation 1
See all 7 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using Pain management (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Course of treatment ended 3   Course of treatment ended: 38%
Doctor's advice 2   Doctor's advice: 25%
Other 2   Other: 25%
Did not seem to work 1   Did not seem to work: 13%
Expense 1   Expense: 13%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 13%

See all 8 patients who’ve stopped using Pain management

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Using Pain management

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

Stopped Using Pain management

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Pain management

Always
 4 57%
Usually
 3 43%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Pain management

Very
 1 14%
Somewhat
 3 43%
A little
 1 14%
Not at all
 2 29%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Pain management

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 1 33%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 2 67%

Report created on May 28, 2012.