Tuesday-Newsday #116

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are: “Why Did Someone Send Me a Get Well Soon Card?" by Rhonda Sawtelle and “Strength, Invisible Illness and Chronic Pain” by Tracy Rydzy.

Let Me Know: If you’d like me to watch for articles on your pain condition, just drop me a note in the comments section below. 

WARNING:  My goal is to provide the most up-to-date news I can, which you can then take to your personal doctor and debate the merits of before you try it. I do not endorse any of the docs, treatments, info, and meds in anything I post nor can I guarantee they are all effective, especially not for everyone. As is the case with any health info, ALWAYS get your doctor's opinion first!

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 *INVISIBLE ILLNESS WEEK - SEPTEMBER 10-16

If you live with an invisible illness, you may feel alone -- but e-patient bloggers are using it as an opportunity to speak about the pain you never see

Invisible Illness Week FAQs: Find Out All the Ways You Can Take Part & Spread the Word

*MEDICATION NEWS

Backlash Against Walgreen’s New Painkiller Crackdown

Pharmacy giant is suddenly requiring its pharmacists to take “additional steps” to verify prescriptions for controlled substances

One Pain Doctor’s View: Why he supports the AMA resolution to block pharmacists from interfering in the prescribing of pain medication 

Study Finds ‘Doctor Shopping’ Uncommon

Influences on Opioid Rx for Chronic Pain Studied

Declining Care for Pain Patients

More effective treatments for chronic pain: Personalized medicine used to be a thing of the future but the future is here

Quest launches lab-developed genetic test for personalized opioid pain-relieving treatment

Florida Pain Victims Trapped by Prescription Crackdown

Denied Pain Meds After Surgery

Husband forced to seek wife's painkiller on street

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Ethical Questions Raised About UDT

Spouses lose sleep over partners' chronic pain, study finds

New Pain Diary App CatchMyPain Bears Hope for Chronic Pain Patients

The Color of Pain

*TMJ & TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS

Target for Drug Development for Chronic Jaw Pain Disorder Revealed

Study Assesses Mood Disorders with TMJ Pain

*FEMALE PAIN CONDITION

Veins linked to chronic pelvic pain among women

Scant data on seizure drugs for women's genital pain

Low-Dose Pill Linked to Chronic Pelvic Pain Symptoms

Women on low-estrogen pills report more pain overall, and during sex

Some Women Feel More Pain: Women who have been abused and who experience strong mood changes in tandem with their menstrual cycle also feel pain more acutely than other women

Vitamin D May Help Prevent Uterine Fibroids

A look at Focused Ultrasound Surgery: personalized non-invasive treatment for patients with uterine fibroids, bone tumors, brain treatments and more (video)

Interstitial Cystitis Studies Seeking Patients, click each one for details: Liris Study and the Leadership Study

Gene Therapy Could Offer New Treatment for Bladder Pain

Living with Interstitial Cystitis

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Why Did Someone Send Me a Get Well Soon Card?

by Rhonda Sawtelle

Strength, Invisible Illness and Chronic Pain

by Tracy Rydzy