Tuesday-Newsday #149

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Letting Go of Guilt”, “When Migraines Put Friendships at Risk” and “All Change! How to cope with pain and change." 

Remember that 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.

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   

Living with Pain (video)

This important video which stresses the need to develop a tool kit for living with chronic pain and depression and a safety plan. 

Can Grapes Reduce Pain and Improve Health?

Vitamin D and Central Hypersensitivity in Chronic Pain Patients

Key genetic link discovered between four chronic pain conditions: IBS, musculoskeletal pain, pelvic pain and dry eye disease

Half of the 21 million Americans who have a disability don't exercise, and that  jeopardizes their health: Lack of workouts increases the risk of chronic diseases

Engineer invents a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body, paving the way for new 'electroceutical' devices to treat illness or alleviate pain

*PATIENT NEWS

Doctors' Ignorance Stands In The Way Of Care For The Disabled

Most Docs Believe Patients Get Too Many Medical Tests: But, half of physicians have ordered unneeded tests for pushy patients, survey found

Wasteful Medicare Spending Topped $1.9 Billion in 1 Year: Analysis using 2009 data looked at 26 common but often unnecessary tests and procedures

Outcome data in clinical trials reported inadequately, inconsistently, study finds

Bioethicist: 'Right to Try' Law More Cruel Than Compassionate

ResearchMatch helps connect patients to studies for research

*MIGRAINE / HEADACHE

FDA Approves First Device to Prevent Migraines: Wearable Cefaly headband uses electrodes to stimulate nerve tied to the headaches

Chronic Migraine Responds to OnabotulinumtoxinA

Are Medication Overuse Headaches Associated With NSAIDs?

Topamax Approval for Migraines Expanded to Younger Users

Over-the-counter medicines may relieve severe migraines, study says

New Drugs May Help Prevent Migraines: Two early trials show two experimental compounds reduced number of headaches for sufferers

Dual Nerve Stimulation Helps Chronic Migraine

New tweetment: Twitter users describe real-time migraine agony

Older people with migraines 'more likely to have silent brain injury'

Migraine disorder comes with its own set of clues to preventing pain

New drugs, herbal remedies and magnetic stimulation are among the options for migraine sufferers

Migraine Expert Agrees Brain Scans Often Not Needed

What a Headache: $1 Billion in Brain Scans

Migraine Attacks Increase Following Stress “Let-Down”

Antibodies Block Migraine in Preliminary Studies

Migraines and Auras

Migraines show a link to gluten in some cases

Butterbur a good treatment for migraine pain, doctors say

Study suggests link between migraines, bipolar disorder

Study Links Hormonal Contraceptive Treatment to Incidence of Thrombotic Events in Women with Migraine

Study Suggests that Cardiovascular Risk Factors Tend to Cluster in Patients with Migraine

Orthopedic surgeon treats migraine sufferers with unique procedure: Sphenopalatine Ganglion (SPG) nerve block

Researchers study differences in the prevalence of headaches worldwide

*HIGHER EDUCATION: GOING TO SCHOOL WHEN YOU HAVE CHRONIC PAIN/ILLNESS

When It Comes To Chronic Illness, College Campuses Have A Lot To Learn

Dropping the Ball on Disabilities

Hearing the voices of the chronically ill in higher education - Part 1 and Part 2

*FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Letting Go of Guilt

by Kerrie Smyres for Migraine.com

When Migraines Put Friendships at Risk

by Teri Robert

All Change! How to cope with pain and change

by Jan Sadler of PainSupport UK