Tuesday-Newsday #126

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are: “‘Tis the Season – Don’t ‘Give’ til it Hurts” and “I Am Not a Slob, I have an Invisible Illness.”

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

Why Widows and Widowers Feel Less Chronic Pain

Future Doctors Unprepared to Manage Pain

Regular Exercise Helps Reduce Pain in Seniors

The effect of acupuncture on neuropathic pain

Medtronic Recall Does Not Involve Pain Pumps or Spinal Stimulators

Balky insurers threatening to make Spinal Cord Stimulation inaccessible to patients as a first-line treatment for certain types of neuropathic pain, including CRPS and Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

The Missing ‘P’ in Pain Management: Two psychiatrists think it’s Psychiatry

Why the student health center is not for chronically ill students

video: Preparing to meet with new pain doctor

I have also written a blog post on this subject which includes other helpful suggestions. You can read it HERE

*MEDICATION NEWS

Will Opioid Scrutiny Spur NSAID Overuse?

Confusion Over Why Youths Misuse Rx Opioids

Lawmakers urge greater oversight of compounding pharmacies

opinion: Why the FDA is wrong on restricting access to Vicodin

*COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME (CRPS) / REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY (RSD)

NY Pain Doctors Open First CRPS Institute in Manhattan

How to Apply for Disability Benefits with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Nerve Injuries and the Fixed Dystonias of CRPS

Packard Children's care teams train brain to defeat pain of CRPS

video: CRPS & Step Therapy - How to deal with Insurance companies

video: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Treatment: TMJ Connection - see part 2 of the video HERE

video: Barby’s story of Ketamine therapy putting her into remission

Incurable pain leads patient to hope: For himself, and for others

Pain management even after your injury is healed

Mystery syndrome which causes pain worse than childbirth AND amputation that's baffling docs

Power of Pain: 'Nervemember' video list

*MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

New MS drug Lemtrada approved by FDA, but it’s not for everyone

Acupuncture for Multiple Sclerosis - New Findings

Drumming Away The Pain Of Multiple Sclerosis

Neuroimaging Study Sheds Light On Mechanisms of Cognitive Fatigue in MS

Soil Based Bacteria May Cause Multiple Sclerosis

Trial MS medicine changed my life, says patient

New Therapy for MS on Horizon?

FDA Approves Multiple Sclerosis Stem Cell Trial

Imaging Shows Increased Iron in Brains of MS Patients

Controversial Theory Behind Possible MS Cause Refuted: Canadian researchers report that blocked veins in head, neck don't prompt autoimmune disease

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

‘Tis the Season – Don’t “Give” til it Hurts

by Wendy of Transform Your Chronic Life

I Am Not a Slob, I have an Invisible Illness

by Lisa Copen of Rest Ministries