Tuesday-Newsday #124

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are: “How do I deal with the “forever” part of chronic illness diagnosis?” and “Five Ways to ‘Shoot Yourself in the Foot’ in a Life of Chronic Pain.”

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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*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Watch The Discovery Channel Documentary “Pain Matters” Which Chronicles the Burdens of Living with Chronic Pain on November 16

Also, Survey Reveals Loved Ones Provide Significant Support, But Many Still Struggle with Pain’s Invisibility

Attention Fibromyalgians: Webinars to Learn How to Make your Voice Heard at FDA Public Meeting on Fibromaylgia

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI): What is it and how does it help

Better use of lighting in hospital rooms may improve patients' health, help them feel less fatigue and pain

Congenital blindness results in lower thermal pain thresholds: Absence of vision from birth leads to a permanent state of pain hypersensitivity, reports PAIN®

Scientists modify Botox for the treatment of pain

How A Wandering Brain Can Help People Cope With Pain

Pain in Infancy Alters Response to Stress, Anxiety Later in Life

Hypersensitivity to Pain Produced by Early Life Stress Worsened by Later Stress Exposure

Physiological processes in soft tissue pain explored using PET imaging

Laughing away pain

VIDEO: Top 5 Reasons for Disability Insurance Denials

Miss Understood: Proving Disability

Sleep Quality, Depression, Pain and Disability

Paintracking: Finding Comfort

Caregiver’s Toolbox: Best Resources

*MEDICATION NEWS

Acetaminophen and Alcohol a Bad Mix, Study Suggests: Nearly half who combined the two reported kidney disease

FDA outlines plan to combat drug shortages

U.S. investigating CVS prescription refills: A Justice Department unit is investigating claims that refills were made without customer approval, focusing mainly on Medicare fraud allegations

Long-term use of prescription-based painkillers increases the risk of depression, researcher finds

"Opioid Refugees:  Patients Adrift in Search of Pain Relief": A video by Steven Passik, PhD

Pain medicine specialist Dr. Paul Christo’s radio show, Aches & Gains, available online or on SiriusXM

*OSTEOARTHRITIS

Treatment with Methotrexate cuts crippling osteoarthritis pain by 40 per cent

Bisphosphonates Could Offer Effective Pain Relief in Osteoarthritis

New Drug Ampion Significantly Reduces Osteoarthritis Knee Pain

Share the Pain: Managing arthritis pain starts with a conversation

Eating broccoli may help prevent osteoarthritis

Coexisting pain tied to worse knee replacement outcomes

Social Isolation Linked to More Pain After Hip Replacement: Patients lacking social support at higher risk of ongoing pain 2 years after surgery, study found

Hyaluronic Acid Knee Injection Controversy: A new review finds this treatment for knee OA relieves pain – but doctors aren’t convinced

Study Could Revolutionize Treatment for Osteoarthritis

Choice of Footwear May Help Knee OA: New study recommends flexible-soled shoes over stiffer ones

Lateral Wedge Shoe Inserts Don't Help Arthritic Knee Pain: Although inexpensive and noninvasive, treatment is ineffective

Ayurvedic Medicine Offers a Good Alternative to Glucosamine and Celecoxib in the Treatment of Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Video: How do I deal with the “forever” part of chronic illness diagnosis? (AWAP Wednesday)

by Jenni Prokopy at ChronicBabe

Five Ways to “Shoot Yourself in the Foot” in a Life of Chronic Pain

by Sue Falkner-Wood