This article is in our series on Medications for Pain…  what are your choices?  how do various medications work?  what are the pros and cons?  how about side effects? The class of medication we’re looking at today is called Anticonvulsants, which are medications originally used to treat seizure disorders.  Within this class, there are: “1st generation” […]

This article is in our series on Medications for Pain. What are your choices? How do various medications work? Pros and cons? Side effects? NSAIDS are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The 3 types of medication in this class are: Aspirin Non-selective cox inhibitors, e.g. Motrin (Ibuprophen). (The “cox” relates to an enzyme in our bodies involved in inflammation.) Selective […]

This is a series about medications for pain. For each medication class, we’ll cover: what are your choices? how do various medications work? what are the pros and cons of different types of medication? how about side effects? I hope this information will be helpful to you, both to better understand the current medications you’re on, as well […]