“Is there any way I can get something for my pain?” Patient strategies for requesting analgesics

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Oct 28;98(2):137–143. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.10.021

Example 6. P=45-year-old white female
1	NP:	Have you been taking ibuprofen or anything for your back pain?
2	P:	Um, I have not. Dr.___ (name) had gave me some Valium and Percocet and I
3		honestly only took them when I needed them.
4	NP:	Mm hm.
5	P:	And now the Valium did really help. The Percocet's (.) Oooh. Yeah.
6	NP:	Okay.
7	P:	Mm, um, I mean, it helped and I kept them for the longest time. Like, I just didn't
8		want to take them, like, just only as I needed them.