My mom was diagnosed with MM just a few weeks ago. I have five siblings, and each of us seems to be getting different information from doctors at her hospital in Minnesota. We're all over the USA, so it's been difficult to coordinate the facts. One of my brothers heard a doctor tell him that of all the cancers, MM is the most merciful because as it progresses her pain will lessen - something about the body creating a kind of self-perpetuating morphine effect. This sounded a little weird to me, but I have no medical training myself. I was thankful for the news. Well, this is not what we're seeing with our mother AT ALL. She seems to be in terrible pain ALL THE TIME. Has anybody else out there ever heard any doctors say what my brother heard? (about the pain lessening as the disease progresses)????