Genetic testing in pain medicine

[SeniorWrangler]

Hi, I didn't see any similar threads about this. I was recently at a pain meeting and there were two big booths in the huckster area from genetic testing companies promising to provide information about things like P450 enzyme activity to guide drug selection. They claim this testing is covered by many insurances, but I haven't tried it out yet. It sounded very interesting, though -- does anybody recommend this for their patients when they're having weird drug reactions or treatment resistance? It is certainly not standard of care yet.

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[lobelsteve]

It is the next big thing in how to make money off of patients without adding to the value of their care.

 

[SSdoc33]

Doc, as you can see, I'm a fast metabolized of morphine. You need to double my dose!!!

 

[101N]

It's a BS waste of $.

 

[spinal]

It's a total BS. The companies are becoming creative to snatch more money.

 

[Ducttape]

its being used to either justify increasing opioid doses because patients are fast metabolizers of opioids or justify increasing opioid doses because a patient is resistant to opioids.

dont go here.