When Dr. Tamatha Fenster received a call from a young patient requesting a refill on her Oxycodone for pelvic pain, she was faced with a dilemma: letting the patient remain in pain or refill a prescription and perpetuate an opioid dependency.
With few other pain-relief options, she refilled the prescription. “I had to think of an alternative for pelvic pain for women,” said Dr. Fenster, assistant professor of clinical...
