I went thru extreme pain while undergoing treatments which became increasingly bad as the treatments went on. There are very, very few survivors who have gone thru this without some sort of prescription pain medication. Its very important to keep his pain controlled. When uncontrolled, pain can be debilitating making for one miserable patient.

I found the fentanyl patch to be most effective for me. Its changed every 3 days and provides consistent pain relief. I used to change it about every 65-68 hours as it takes several hours for this type of medicine to work. This type of medication needs to be stepped up or down, its not just a start and stop type. If your husband would go this route, then you must read and follow all instructions exactly. With the patch never cut, fold, rip, tear, bend or otherwise do anything that will make the patch altered, plus no long hot showers or baths with it. Fentanyl is the strongest pain medicine made. After about a week, if the Norco isnt working as well ask about the fentanyl patch.

Ive also used gabapentin to help with my nerve pain. To me this was a very good medicine to control the type of pain I had. This can still be used for (breakthru pain) a back up even when using the patch for when your husband is having alot of pain.

Best wishes!