Tuesday-Newsday #176

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to the holidays.

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

~*Rx RECALL ALERT for Gabapentin (Neurontin)*~

Specialty Drugs to Cost Consumers More Next Year

Pharmacogenetic Testing in Pain Medicine: Experts Weigh In

Opioid Prescriber Monitoring May Increase Overdose Deaths

Chronic Opioid Users Pass Driving Test

Our Fear of Opioids Leaves the World in Pain

Docs: New pain med rule could hurt the elderly

COX-2: Biomarker discovery sheds new light on heart attack risk of Cox-2 NSAID

Ask the Pharmacist: Can a Pharmacy Delay Filling a Prescription?

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Smart thermotherapy skin patch for pain relief with interactive control

Study Suggests Nasal Applicator Provides Effective Nerve Block in Seconds

FDA address cybersecurity in medical devices

*FIBROMYALGIA

Fibromyalgia patients can be treated with Lyrica for their pain and depression at the same time

Memantine drug shows promise for fibromyalgia

SURVEY RESULTS: Pain Treatments Used by Fibromyalgia Patients

Non-Drug Treatments More Effective Than Drugs for Multiple Fibromyalgia Symptoms, Meta-Analysis of Several Small Trials

ActiPatch Bioelectronic Therapy Relieves Chronic Pain In Fibromyalgia

Acupuncture Soothes Fibromyalgia And Helps Sleep

Warning about fibromyalgia poison ivy treatment

Fibromyalgia linked to heart disease in new study

The Latest in Fibromyalgia Diagnosis and Care, Expert Interview

With Fibromyalgia Treatment, One Size Does Not Fit All

MAGO treatment took away pain, exhaustion from fibromyalgia

Hypersensitivity to non-painful events may be part of pathology in fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia linked to decreased brain connectivity

Can Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Help Fibromyalgia?

New research sheds light on mysterious fibromyalgia pain

Researchers testing non-drug treatment for fibromyalgia: Reduced Impedance Noninvasive Cortical Electrostimulation (RINCE)

Sensory Distress: The Other Side of Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia Prevalence in the General Population

Lyme Disease, Fibromylagia Link Evaporates: Earlier studies may have included patients who did not have Lyme disease

Light: A Window to Pain in the Brain?

Fibromyalgia Facts and Myths

opinion: The Facts and the Effects of Fibromyalgia Diagnostic Criteria

*CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS) / MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME)

Protestors rallied outside NIH, angry at government neglect & mistreatment of 1 million disabled Americans with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

The “Shake the CFS Stigma Challenge” Begins

How the definition of chronic fatigue syndrome keeps changing

Chronic Fatigue: NIH Literature Review Faulted

Survey Data on Name Change for ME/CFS Analyzed for Publication

Help the National ME/FM Action Network win $5000!

Study finds brain abnormalities in chronic fatigue patients

Study: Pain and pressure pain thresholds in adolescents with CFS and healthy controls

New clinical research program to combat chronic pain and chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome and co-morbid and consequent conditions

*ARTICLES APPLYING TO ALL ABOVE CONDITIONS

ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia SURVEY RESULTS: Cognitive Impairment

Lack of Knowledgeable Healthcare Access for Patients with Neuro-endocrine-immune Diseases, such as Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and Chronic Lyme

opinion: Where Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Part Ways (and Where They Don't)

*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.

The (Re)Cycle of Giving

by Me!

The Ultimate Guide for Surviving the Holidays with Fibromyalgia and CFS/ME and Chronic Health Issues

by Jacynthe Sonne

Tame Your Holiday Fibro Frenzy

by Sue Ingebretson

Feeling Grinch-y?

Dr. Laurie of CreakyJoints.org