Pain Awareness Month And How Toronto Compounding Can Help In Pain Management

September is National Pain Awareness Month. It’s the time of the year when people can openly talk about pain and spread awareness so others might not have to live with it. Pain is a problem that can affect the life of an individual. September is the time to embrace this issue, seek awareness for treatments, and improve the quality of life. Pain is the single most common disability, more than the number of patients who have cancer or other diseases. There are millions of people who experience pain, be it chronic or acute pain. There are types of pain that go away with minimal treatment, while some stay longer. Many diseases can cause pain, such as cancer or arthritis. It can limit your daily activity and affect you mentally and physically. Your pain is real, and you should talk to your healthcare provider about it. Since it’s September, let’s bring this stigma to an end with this blog post of our Toronto compounding pharmacy.

What Is Pain And Its Types

Have you ever hit your toe against the edge of a table? If you did, you must be aware of the unimaginable pain you feel in your toe. That is pain. When your toe hits the edge, your muscle receptors message your brain (your central nervous system). The signals act as a warning to your body for danger. Your brain interprets the warning, which makes you feel the pain. This message pathway resolves when your brain receives and interprets the message and ends when the pain is healed. In chronic pain, your nervous system keeps firing the signals to make you feel pain even if there is no present injury.

There are two types of pain, Acute and Chronic.

Acute Pain

Acute pain results from any past illness or injury, and It is a sudden type of pain. It could last a few hours, days, or even weeks. Subacute pain lasts more than a few weeks and is continuous for at least three months.

Chronic Pain

It is a type of recurring pain that lasts for months. It can result from any illness, cancer, or injury with pain, still being felt in on and off episodes that continue for longer. Examples of pains include migraines, headaches, nerve damage, arthritis, shingles, osteoporosis, peripheral vascular disease or poor blood flow, and back pain.

How Toronto Compounding Can Help In Pain Management

One of the things that patients are afraid of is opioid addiction. Many commercially produced narcotic drugs might help with the pain, but the patient could get hooked on them. Opioid addiction has become an epidemic, and healthcare providers and patients are looking for a way out while still addressing the pain.

Did you know a Toronto compounding pharmacy can help solve this problem?

Prescribed compounded medicine can be beneficial and help the nation come out of this epidemic. Each person has their own need when it comes to medication. The pain differs in nature, cause, intensity and location. There are several patients with the same pain symptoms, but each requires a unique type of medication. With compounding pain medication, pharmacists can formulate custom-made medicine for every patient. These precisely tailored medicines are based on the needs of the patient. Compounding pharmacists can change the formulation, dosage, and flavour of the medication, among other things, to suit the patient’s needs.

If you want to learn more read our complete guide on pain management with compounded medications

Final Words

Patients might not respond to commercially produced medications, or they might need to change the dosage or formulation to have the most significant effect. They could have trouble swallowing tablets and would be more comfortable with topical pain medication applied directly to the target area. They might need a drug in a specific dosage, and it might not be available in the market. They could need a drug that has been discontinued. Since compounding medication of a Toronto compounding pharmacy can be tailored according to the needs of the patient. It is one of the safest and best practices to help cure many pain conditions.

To know more about topical pain compounding, contact us, and we would be happy to help.