Will a doctor prescribe opioids for COPD pain management?
jimbo0272
How can you get a doctor to give you pain medicine for your COPD for your chest cramps - especially coughing over and over - when these are the days people are getting hooked on opioids?
Leon Lebowitz, RRT Member
Hi Jimbo0272 and thanks for this excellent question. For a patient with COPD and pain (related to the COPD or not), the decision to afford some type of pain relief management would be up to the individual physician.
Did you have a specific example in mind?
Wishing you well,
Leon (site moderator)