Cancer patients will experience particularly unbearable pain when they enter a certain stage. Some cancer patients will lose confidence in life because they cannot tolerate the pain. Therefore, many people are more confused, why does the occurrence of cancer cause unbearable pain in the body? In fact, these are mainly caused by these reasons.
Cancer pain is a symptom of cancer development to the middle and late stages. When cancer develops to this stage, tumors in the body will grow in an inflatable manner, compressing tissues, nerves and other organs in the body, causing pain. When the tumor continues to develop, rupture and infection may occur, which further deteriorates the internal environment and aggravates the patient's pain, and it will become more and more painful, making it unbearable. Moreover, this cancerous pain is repetitive, persistent, and often has no end, which undoubtedly makes patients feel desperate.
causes cancer pain, and about 88% is directly caused by tumors. When tumor tissue invades other normal tissues, it can cause pain, such as bone metastasis , bone pain caused by bone tumor , bone pain caused by lung cancer invades the pleura, etc.; secondly, tumors can also cause pain, such as retroperitoneal tumor compressing the waist and abdominal nerve plexus can cause pain in waist and abdominal; breast cancer can compress lymph and blood vessels when metastasizes the axillary lymph nodes, causing swelling and pain in the affected limbs and arms; when primary liver metastasis tumor grows rapidly, excessive stretching of liver envelope can also cause severe pain in the upper right abdomen; tumor ulceration can also cause infection.
In addition, tumor treatment is also an important cause of pain. The pain caused by tumor treatment is a common complication of cancer treatment. Such as radioneuritis, stomatitis, dermatitis, , radioactive osteonecrosis. The patient has low immunity and causes pain in shingles. Chemotherapy drugs leak out of blood vessels and cause tissue necrosis, embolizing phlebitis caused by chemotherapy, toxic peripheral neuritis (vinblastine), and damage to the axillary lymph system during radical breast cancer surgery, which can cause swelling and pain in the arms. After surgery, incision scar, nerve damage, phantom limb pain .
Cancer pain is mostly chronic and hidden dull pain in the early stage. As the condition progresses, the chronic dull pain gradually turns into sharp pain and knife-like pain, which can be released along the innervation area, which is usually chronic pain. Most chronic cancer pain manifests as pain caused by at least two causes, that is, the pain shown by the same cancer pain patient can be of multiple natures, multiple locations and multiple causes.
Cancer patients may be accompanied by mental and psychological symptoms such as anxiety, anorexia, insomnia and neurasthenia. Cancer pain will affect the patient's mood and will also affect the patient's daily activities, diet and sleep. Long-term poor eating and sleeping will lead to a decrease in the body's resistance. Tumor cells generally develop the most rapidly when the body's resistance is poor, which is not conducive to cancer treatment. Therefore, when patients feel cancer pain, they should promptly tell the people around them to receive support and help, and receive standardized cancer pain treatment to improve their quality of life.
How should cancer pain be relieved? It can divert or distract attention, and can also appropriately reduce the pain in cancer patients. Choosing some things you like to do, such as watching TV and listening to music. Turning your attention away can prevent you from focusing all your attention on the pain, which can effectively relieve it.
can cultivate a positive and optimistic attitude. The most important thing in fighting cancer pain is the patient themselves, and the family members and medical staff only play a supporting role. Patients themselves must recognize their own disease, bravely fight against cancer pain, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, and actively cooperate with doctors' treatment and standardize the treatment of cancer pain, so as to relieve the pain caused by cancer pain.
Non-drug treatment methods include hot and cold compresses, comfortable positioning, meditation, massage, listening to music, deep breathing and relaxing exercises. But these are only auxiliary methods and cannot replace drug treatment.
Traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of pain was first seen in "Huangdi Neijing ". It calls pain caused by cancer cancer cancer pain, and believes that local pain is caused by cancer tumor invasion of meridians or tumor blocking it. The pathogenesis is "If it is not connected, it is open, and if it is not honored, it is painful." In the "Huangdi Neijing", there are painful symptoms that are very similar to those of advanced lung cancer: "The large bones are withered, the large flesh is sunken, the chest is full of breath, the breath is inconvenient to wheeze, and the internal pain leads to the shoulders and neck."
Doctors of all ages have also believed that phlegm evil blocks the veins and is the source of cancer pain, and its main pathogenesis is "pain if it is blocked" and "pain if it is not honored". For example, when the qi and blood in the meridians of the human body are blocked and blocked, it will cause various pains, which is "blocking will cause pain". If the qi and blood in the meridians of the human body are reduced and insufficient (in fact, it is also a blockage), it will also cause pain. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "blocking and pain". It means prosperity and nutrition. It’s like flowers, plants and trees need sunshine and rain to thrive. If these normal nourishment is lost, not only will the functional activities be impaired, but pain will also occur.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the pathological properties of cancer pain are always inherently deficiency and sufficient. Most of them are caused by deficiency and pain due to deficiency. It is a disease that is systemic and locally solid. Traditional Chinese medicine methods are safe and effective and can relieve pain in patients with malignant tumors. Cancer pain can be divided into qi stagnation and blood stasis type and qi and blood loss type. Qi stagnation and blood stasis are due to the pathology of blockage of qi in a certain part, and local symptoms of bloating or pain. For cancer pain with qi stagnation and blood stasis, the main purpose is to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, unblock the meridians and relieve pain. The main purpose of cancer pain in qi and blood loss is to nourish qi and blood, warm menstruation and relieve pain, and achieve the purpose of treating cancer pain.
At the same time, Chinese medicine can also be combined with Western medicine to relieve pain. Because of cancer pain, many people will take some painkillers as soon as possible, but these medicines may cause or aggravate gastric ulcer and upper gastrointestinal bleeding . Opioids inhibit smooth muscles and lead to constipation, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension, etc. The patients cannot tolerate it, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of life of the patients. Combining traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine painkillers can not only enhance the efficacy, but also reduce the adverse reactions such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and constipation in Western medicine.
