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How To Deal With A Person Who Is Violent And Angry Due To Cancer Pain?
hi my father law 82 has stage 4 cancer of the prostate ans he was in a lot of pain so the Dr put him on a fenal patch for pain he is acting very angry and iractional toward the family and is getting violent with us. what can we do to help him but keep are sanity.
Mon, 3 Jul 2017
Ok, first alert the doctor. There can be a large number of potential causes of that. The fentanyl can cause lack of oxygen and that is corectable. It can also directly cause changes in personality which reverse with lowering the dose of the fentanyl. Or it could be depression associated with having a painful fatal disease.
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