Taxol use and pain wıth Lung Adenocarcinoma wt brain met - 1246202

ebrutontas
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I really apprecıate your responses ın advance. My friend just started taxol as treatment for lung adenocarcinoma wıth brain mets. She has pain all over her body and doctors told her to come ın to emergency for pain medication shot ıf the pain becomes unbearable.

is this a typical side effect of taxol? have you used or suggest any methods for pain management?

thanks a million.
ebru

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Reply # - July 31, 2012, 09:36 PM

Dr West
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Muscle and joint aches are pretty common with Taxol (paclitaxel), but they aren't usually severe enough to require a patient to go to the emergency room. They're usually managed with anything from tylenol to some oral opioids like Percocet or oxycodone.

You can learn more about pain medication from these introductions to the topic by Dr. Harman, a specialist in symptom management:

http://cancergrace.org/cancer-treatments/2012/07/28/dr-harman-on-cancer…

http://cancergrace.org/cancer-treatments/2009/07/02/cancer-pain-101/

-Dr. West

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