Tuesday-Newsday #172

~* This Veterans Day edition is meant to help 

and honor those who serve in our Armed Forces. 

Thank you for your service! *~

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “11 Ways to Make Your Chronic Marriage Extraordinary”, How to Turn 'Tough Things' into Treasure” and “How to Begin to Face Fear.”

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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*MEDICATION NEWS

Pain Patients Forced to Go ‘Cold Turkey’ from Hydrocodone

Groups Angered Over FDA Warning on Epidural Steroid Injections

Certain Painkillers Tied to Raised Risk of Death After Stroke

Pain Experts Say New Opioid Has ‘Enormous’ Potential

FDA Warns That Supplements Can Be Dangerous Mix with Medications: Combination can alter drug absorption

High levels of toxic molds identified in herbal medicines

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

How Smoking Makes Chronic Pain Worse

EPAT device relieves chronic muscle pain in minutes

Nerve-Burning Promises Longer Pain Relief: Cooled Radiofrequency Treatment (Coolief)

Take the Sting Out of Alternative Medicine Costs

*MILITARY VETERANS

VA Announces Major Restructuring

First ‘Choice Cards’ Mailed to 320,000 Vets Living Far from VA Care

Widespread Chronic Pain Seen in Study of U.S. Military

U.S. Pledges Millions to Study Ways to Ease Soldiers' Pain: 13 projects will look at alternative therapies

At VA, exploring alternative therapies for chronic pain and other ailments

Free marijuana for vets creates buzz in pot debate while saving lives

DoD should review Tricare rules on compounded medications

Veterans find chronic pain relief with Neurostimulation

Arthritis Affects One Quarter of US Veterans, says CDC

Coenzyme Q10 helps veterans battle gulf war illness symptoms

Expert: Move pain management into 21st century

Pain Following Combat Trauma: A New Look at an Old Problem by the U.S. Army Surgeon General’s Pain Task Force (PTF)

Should first responders use acupuncture & integrative medicine in natural disasters & battle zones?

Pain of a Wounded Warrior - Part 1 and click here for Part 2

Researchers Aim to Understand Extremity Pain Among Military

Service Members Diagnosed with Chronic Insomnia May Face Increased Risk of Type II Diabetes and High Blood Pressure, Report Says

Study of an anti-inflammatory treatment for burns by high-velocity explosive devices may prevent what’s become one of the war-defining injuries for today’s troops

Common anesthetic procedure dramatically improves well being of veterans with PTSD

Genetic test for veterans with PTSD

Veterans Affairs updates disability claims form

DOD Grant to Fund UAB Rehabilitation Therapy for Wounded Warriors

Healing wounded warriors teaching them to play music

Laugh is a battlefield: Injured veterans use standup comedy to heal in ‘Comedy Warriors’

Boston Scientific Helps Turn Wounded Warrior Into Competitive Cyclist

Veteran finds home after legal battle over service dog

MakeTheConnection is a one-stop resource of info & support for Veterans and their families, including those living with chronic pain

*AMPUTEE (PHANTOM) PAIN

Prosthetic Hand Restores Touch, Heals Phantom Pain

WWI surgeons could do little for amputees' pain -- and treatment remains a challenge

Sandia Dynamic Leg Prosthesis Technology Auto-Adjusts for All Day Fit (VIDEO)

Why Do Amputees Feel the Ache of Nothingness?

Coping with life after limb loss: Program gets amputees together to support one another

Life With A Phantom

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Even if a Featured Blog Post is written specifically with emphasis on one chronic pain condition, it may still have information and ideas which can help people with any type of chronic pain/illness. I always select posts which I think can provide help for the widest audience.

11 Ways to Make Your Chronic Marriage Extraordinary

by Helena at Chronic Marriage: Helping couples with chronic illness build extraordinary marriages

How to Turn 'Tough Things' into Treasure

by Lisa Copen of Rest Ministries

How to Begin to Face Fear (AWAP Wednesday)

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of Chronic Babe