Tuesday-Newsday #133

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The three Featured Blog Posts this week are “Counting Your Blessings: How Gratitude Improves Your Health”, “10 tips from 10 years sick”, and “Helping Others Understand 'Invisible' Illness: What's Enough But Not too Much?”

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

Differences in brain structure in patients with distinct sites of chronic pain

When pain therapies fail: Growing field of interventional pain management offers hope for patients when conventional therapies don't work

Sleep On It: Improving Sleep Even When You Hurt

Talking with Children About Your Pain: Practical Advice for Parenting with Pain

Parenting Through Chronic Physical Pain: Studies say that when parents are in pain, children suffer. I push my body as hard as I can

What Fibromyalgia Teaches Us About Chronic Pain

NASA’s Inflatable Treadmill Relieves Pain Of Working Out

Love in the Time of Chronic Illness: When should you disclose medical conditions to a date? When is illness too much for a relationship to survive?

*MEDICATION NEWS

ACLU Sues over Drug Testing Pain Patients: Sues in state of Indiana to challenge the constitutionality of mandatory testing

Feds Planning New Crackdown on Painkillers as Part of a Major Overhaul of Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Programs

Painkiller study helps tackle national headache of legal drugs addiction

Scientists have discovered how salt acts as a key regulator for drugs used to treat a variety of brain diseases including chronic pain and depression

Half Of A Drug's Power Comes From Thinking It Will Work

*PATIENT NEWS

Five important questions every patient needs to ask about ANY treatment option

Drug shortages still have major impact on patient care

Unexpected diagnosis: Some medical tests may be harmful to your health

Doctor Visits Via Skype, Could This Be The Future Of Medicine?

What Yoga Can and Can't Do for You: Sure, it's a stress-buster, but it also helps with anxiety, depression, insomnia, back pain and other ills, experts say

*FEMALE PAIN CONDITIONS

Acupuncture Eases Endometriosis Pain - New Study

Pesticide exposure linked to increased endometriosis risk

March on Washington to raise awareness for endometriosis

Viagra Might Help Relieve Severe Menstrual Cramps

Uterine Fibroids Take Heavy Toll on Women, Survey Finds: But many delay seeing doctor for years because of concerns about treatments

Cleveland Clinic Voices Concerns Over Potential Cancer Risks of Fibroid Surgery

Interstitial Cystitis may be considered a chronic inflammatory disease

Urine Tests Don't Always Confirm Urinary Infections: Doctors can rely on symptoms to start treatment, experts say

Bladder pain syndrome is very painful, can take a long time to diagnose

New Ultrasound Device - PainShield® - Significantly Reduces Pain in Chronic Pelvic and Interstitial Cystitis Pain Patients

The invisible varicose veins that cause pain in your pelvis

Women’s pelvic pain often goes underreported, untreated

Woman Finds Relief from Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) after Nearly Two Decades

Comprehensive, Nonsurgical Treatment Improves Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Women

*PELVIC PAIN: MEN and WOMEN

Men With Pelvic Pain Find a Path to Treatment Blocked by a Gynecology Board

A Fix for Stress-Related Pelvic Pain for Men and Women

Chronic pelvic pain syndrome patients prone to fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue: Men with longer symptom duration show worse severity for most symptom measures

No link found between bacteria, chronic pelvic pain: Study author says possible connection with symptom flares needs investigation

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Counting Your Blessings: How Gratitude Improves Your Health

by Bruce Campbell of CFIDS & Fibromyalgia Self-Help

Note from me: I kept a gratitude album myself during the holidays for the very first time - see what I wrote about it HERE

10 tips from 10 years sick

by Toni Bernhard

Helping Others Understand 'Invisible' Illness: What's Enough But Not too Much?

by Deborah A Barrett