DEFINITIONS OF SOME EXPRESSIONS YOUR DOCTOR MAY USE – HOW TO TAKE PAINKILLERS (METHODS)
Remember, it will take fifteen to thirty minutes after you take it before it starts to work. If you take painkillers like this you will get good, even, pain control with smaller doses of painkiller. Don’t take painkillers only when you ‘need’ them.
In the case of the painkillers on the list other than aspirin and paracetamol, if you take the same one regularly for some weeks, you are likely to find it is not working as well, or for as long. This is normal and expected. It does not mean that you are getting addicted to your painkiller. What happens is that your body develops ways of getting rid of the drug more quickly. It now takes more of the painkiller to achieve the same amount in your blood. Therefore, when you find that the dose which used to control your pain no longer does so, it is quite safe, and indeed necessary, to increase your dose. The higher dose is no more dangerous and will cause no more side effects for you than the usual starting dose would for someone who had not been taking painkillers.
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