Tuesday-Newsday #167

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are “Invisible llness & Suicide”, “Killing Me Softly: FM/CFS & Suicide” and “Lost in Grief.” 

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

Tighter restrictions on popular painkillers with Hydrocone kicked in yesterday

NSAIDs combined with other drugs may cause high risk of GI bleeding

Deaths from Opioid Overdoses Decline

Cannabis 'can trigger a heart attack': Risk increases FIVE-fold in the hour after drug is smoked 

Drug company races to FDA with abuse-deterrent version of maligned pain pill Zohydro

FDA Fires Back At Critics of its Zohydro Policy

FDA Okays Methylnaltrexone (Relistor) for Opioid Constipation

Doctors prescribe more painkillers to women, study confirms

Stepwise Stages Critical When Tapering Pain Meds

As insurers end coverage for compounded drugs, patients struggle

Are Expired Medications OK to Take?

When Counterfeit and Contaminated Drugs Are Deadly

An ingestible pill with needles could be the new form of injection

The Conundrums of Chronic Opioid Therapy for Noncancer Pain Management: Two doctors’ give their expert opinion

opinion: Opioid Bias Hurts Pain Patients

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Pain words like ache, agony, and distress stand out more for those experiencing it

"My Pain Feels Like…" Patient Initiative Gets the Status of European Best Practice

Questionnaire: How would you describe your pain?

Twitch the Knots Away: Functional Dry Needling provides pain relief for tight, sore muscles

What to Do When Your Doctor Doesn’t Believe Your Pain 

How your clothes can cause you pain: The worst wardrobe offenders for your body

Pain-Free Clothing for Today’s Pain Sufferers

*DISABILITY

Disability Income Preparation Guide

Your Rights When a Disability Claim is Terminated

'Why do they let them live?': Disabled people hold up signs repeating the humiliating things they've heard said about them

The Pain of Passing My Disability on to My Child

Five reasons why every person with a disability should volunteer

*NECK & SHOULDER PAIN

Cervical Disc Clinical Trial for People with Neck and Arm Pain 

Acupuncture Found Superior To Drug for Neck Disc Pain 

Adequate doses of massage treatment necessary for relief of neck pain

Neck manipulation may be associated with stroke

BMI Predicts Neck Pain After Car Crash

New Perspectives on Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Shoulder Pain: PT Works Well and Costs Less Than Shots

*TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA

Competing for Awareness on Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day, October 7th

High Rate of Misdiagnoses for Lesser Known ‘Suicide Disease’ Spotlights Need for Second Opinion

More common procedures for painful facial tics carry high costs

Patients with Trigeminal Neuralgia find relief from non-invasive Gamma Knife procedure

Social media push makes surgery possible for young man in pain

Two doses of botulinum toxin type A for the treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia

*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.

Invisible llness & Suicide - AWAP Wednesday 

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of ChronicBabe

Killing Me Softly: FM/CFS & Suicide

by Lisa Lorden Myers

Lost in Grief

by leitis23 of Then Everything Changed