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INDICATION
PRIALT is a prescription medicine used to treat severe chronic pain in adults who cannot take other treatments or when other treatments do not work, stop working, or cause bothersome side effects. PRIALT can only be delivered by or under the direction of a doctor who injects the medicine into your spinal fluid through a special device (a procedure called intrathecal infusion) and should only be used in patients who are appropriate for the procedure.
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long-term,*
non-opioid pain relief
*PRIALT was studied in multiple open-label, long-term safety studies for up to 12 months.
INDICATION
PRIALT is a prescription medicine used to treat severe chronic pain in adults who cannot take other treatments or when other treatments do not work, stop working, or cause bothersome side effects. PRIALT can only be delivered by or under the direction of a doctor who injects the medicine into your spinal fluid through a special device (a procedure called intrathecal infusion) and should only be used in patients who are appropriate for the procedure.
How your medication is delivered matters
Pain signals travel from the site of injury through nerve channels in the spine to reach the brain. With intrathecal therapy (IT), a pump is placed in the body with a catheter that delivers medication directly into the spinal fluid. The line can be placed close to where your specific injury or problem is located. IT therapy may help reduce the amount of oral medication you use to block pain because the medication enters the body right where pain signals travel.
You may be experiencing more than one type of pain
Your severe chronic pain condition may be a result of more than one cause – damage to body tissues (nociceptive), damage to the nervous system (neuropathic), or a mix of the two. These causes of pain can be described as pain types.
Pain that is partly neuropathic can show up in many different conditions†:
- Diabetic neuropathy
- HIV-related neuropathy
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Multiple sclerosis
- Lumbar radiculopathy
- Failed back surgery syndrome
- Cancer-related pain
- Spinal cord injury
- Phantom limb
- Tumor compression
† | This list does not cover all of the pain conditions that have neuropathic pain. |
Neuropathic pain may not respond well to medications
PRIALT, like opioids, has been studied in many types of severe chronic pain, but may not be appropriate for all patients.
Questions about treatment?
Contact a nurse who specializes in non-opioid intrathecal treatment for severe chronic pain