Tuesday-Newsday #204

[NOTE: Due to a pain flare and being overwhelmed with planning all the details for our accessible bathroom remodel, this week will be a shorter post.]

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all connected to coping with life when you are stuck in bed or at home due to a pain/illness flare-up

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

Pharmacist Chronic Pain Advocate Launches Non-Profit To Help Patients Denied Their Pain Rx

Pain Patients Say They Can’t Get Meds After Illegal Rx Drug Crackdown

Media Coverage of Pain Meds Often Unfair

Fed Report Sparks New Debate over Steroid Injections

Gabapentin Has Therapeutic Benefits in Some Patients With Neuropathic Pain and Fibromyalgia

New Treatment for Chronic Pain: Combination therapy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with infused Ketamine

Sedatives or Opioids: Which is the Bigger Problem?

CVS To Drop Caremark Insurance Coverage For Certain Drugs

*PAIN Rx and PHARMACY SCANDAL IN FLORIDA

Second federal report critical of DEA actions with pharmacies

DEA testifies on legitimate prescription drug denials

Congresswoman calls for hearing on prescription access problem

Hospice patients among latest denied prescription painkillers

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Treating and Preventing (TAP) Chronic Pain Conference October 8-10, 2015: For people with fibromyalgia & chronic pain illnesses

Facial recognition app ePAT assesses pain in patients who cannot speak

Doctor says Calmare Scrambler Therapy can help those with severe, chronic, neuropathic and oncologic pain 

Chronic Inflammatory Pain: Just an Excitable Brain?

Is Cinnamon a Safer Pain Reliever?

Chronic Pain: Far from the Maddening Crowd?

Reacting positively to stressful situations may play a key role in long-term health, according to researchers

How Does Your Doctor Rate?

*SLEEP and PAIN

The Importance of Mitigating Pain and Stress for Better Sleep

Improving Sleep Quality Has Pain Control Benefits

How an Insomnia Therapy Can Help With Other Illnesses

*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.

Making a relapse nest

from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of the U.K.

Things You Can Do from the Bed, Part 1: Living well from the bed, the couch, or the recliner

by Toni Bernhard J.D. for Psychology Today

Things You Can Do from the Bed, Part 2: Ideas from Readers

by Toni Bernhard J.D. for Psychology Today

Sick, Tired and Bed-bound – What To Do?

by Grace Quantock