Being helpless in the face of pain is many diseased persons' greatest fear. Pain intensity is thereby often connected to the apprehension that the illness is progressing. This does not have to be the case. With modern methods of pain therapy a freedom from pain to the greatest possible extent can be achieved in most cases.
The treatment always depends on your subjective perception and usually combines permanent basic medication with an acute provision of pain medication determined by the patient.
You should keep a pain diary, accompanying the therapy. The subjectively perceived level of pain is objectively determined with a scale of assessment. Independent of the symptoms, the type of pain can be exactly differentiated. According to the international step scheme by the World Health Organisation (WHO), individual pain control can then be quickly put into effect. As a patient, you profit from a clearly higher quality of life - also if the illness proceeds.