Tuesday-Newsday #183

(Note: Next week there will not be a new post. Tuesday-Newsday will return on March 9.)

It's time for Tuesday-Newsday! Sorry I'm posting it a day late, but here it is at last. The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to living with a painful 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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*MEDICATION NEWS

New rules on narcotic painkillers cause grief for veterans & the VA

Treating Chronic Pain Patients—Getting More Scrutiny

Researchers Discover Potential New Therapy for Opioid Tolerant Patients

New App Helps Patients with Chronic Pain Safely Monitor Their Opioid Medication Use

opinion from doctor: DEA should not interfere with physicians, pain patients

opinion from patient: Chronic Pain and Opioids

Scam: Insurance billed $18,000 for unwanted pain meds

NSAIDs Linked To More Problems After A Heart Attack

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Pain Really Is All In Your Head: Emotion Controls Intensity

A Call For More Chronic Pain Research

Kinesio therapeutic tape may have limited benefit for pain

More Americans Practicing Yoga, Meditation To Control Pain, but Supplements Still Lead Alternative Therapies

Spinal Cord Stimulation Market Getting More Crowded

This Device Could Make Effective, Drug-Free Pain Management Accessible To Everyone: Chimaera 

Sleep Disturbance and the Experience of Pain

Interval training and chronic pain

*Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / CFS / SEID / ME 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Given a New Name and Definition by: Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (S.E.I.D.) 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Wrong Name, Real Illness

The Five Competing Definitions of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The Case for Centers of Excellence in ME/CFS

Patients wanted for Online Survey about quality of ME/CFS medical care they have experienced 

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to Early Menopause: CDC

Good or Bad? Napping with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: It Could Be Making You Feel Worse

Addressing Fear of Exercise Cuts Chronic Fatigue…Perhaps

Low Natural Killer (NK) Activity Observed Across the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Disease Spectrum

Eye health could help diagnose people with CFS

Brain abnormalities found in chronic fatigue patients

Unraveling the mysteries of chronic fatigue syndrome

"Unbroken" author opens up about her own personal struggle with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A Boy With ME Writes an Open Letter to the King of Norway

opinion: How disease names can stigmatize

*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.

Appearances can be deceptive 

by Jan Sadler of Pain Support

Using Mobility Aids with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

by Adrienne Dellwo

5 People You Meet When You Have A Chronic Illness

Amy Waggoner  

How do you talk about your life with chronic illness...without making the conversation all about illness?

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of Chronic Babe

Tuesday-Newsday #182

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to finding quality healthcare.

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

Chronic pain treatments may get boost from high-tech imaging: Brain scans can track protein changes to show whether therapies work

Chronic Pain Is Overwhelmingly Experienced by Women—So Why Do They Have Trouble Getting Care for It?

Chronic Joint Pain: Joints can swell when we are sleeping, preventing restful sleep in 50-90% of patients

3D Printed Bones To Increase Success of Orthopedic Surgery, Reduce Risk of Chronic Pain

A Radical Standard of Pain: Pain is political. But how?

How To Manage The Psychological Side Of Illness

Negative doctor-patient talks can worsen symptoms

Why It's Sometimes OK For Doctors To Google Their Patients (note: what do you think of this?)

Pooches, Pets, and Pain Relief

opinion: We Need More Chronic Pain Awareness

*MEDICATION NEWS

Making Epidural Injections Safer: National organizations sign off on new suggestions to improve pain treatment and prevent neurological injuries

Pot drug for cancer pain flops, other health risks make marijuana too risky to legalize

DEA has removed Naloxegol (Movantik) tablets opioid constipation from the Controlled Substances Act

opinion: Should anesthesiologists play a role in the delivery of palliative care?

*MIGRAINE / HEADACHE

American Migraine Foundation To Create National Patient Database for Research

What are the risks associated with taking migraine medications and antidepressants at the same time?

Migraine Headaches–New Study Released on Use of NSAIDs

Mitigate those Migraines: Cambia (Diclofenac Potassium) has recently been established as an effective Level A treatment

Updated assessment of medications to treat acute migraine

How 'Beckham tape' can help you beat headaches: More than 10 million of us suffer from the pain

Peripheral nerve blocks OK for migraines in pregnancy

FDA Declines Approval for Intranasal Migraine Treatment

Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure is no panacea for Migraine

Difficult to Treat Chronic Migraine: Outpatient Medication Approaches

Are Migraines in Middle Age Tied to Raised Parkinson's Risk Later?

Handheld vagal nerve stimulator reduced cluster headache attacks: gammaCore

New migraine procedure called SphenoCath provides pain relief for some

Why Migraines Deserve More Attention

Migraines: A Bigger Problem Than We Think?

New study finds Migraine remains highly prevalent medical condition with women, vulnerable populations bearing disproportionate disease burden; E.R. visits common but best treatments not usually prescribed

ID Migraine Screener Useful Tool for Better Headache Diagnosis

Here's What It Means When Your Headache Is In A Specific Part Of Your Head

Headaches can be a warning sign: If bad headaches and vision problems crop up persistently for the first time over the age of 50, it could be a symptom of a serious illness

New Study Links Headaches to Bariatric Surgery

Limit Imaging Scans for Headache? Neurosurgeons Raise Concerns It Is Sometimes the Only Symptom of Brain Tumors

Migraine linked to defective 'insulation' around nerve fibers, suggests study

No Link Between Migraine, Breast Cancer Risk, Study Says

Migraine May Raise Risk for Bell's Palsy, Study Suggests

Multidisciplinary Migraine Management

Surgical Approaches to Migraine Headache

Preventative Treatment for Migraine: Overview & Approach

Migraine sufferers may find meditation helps, small study finds

Difficult to Treat Chronic Migraine: The Bipolar Spectrum and Personality Disorders

Do You Hear Voices during a Migraine Attack?

Carving Out an Identity for Vestibular Migraine

2014: The Year in Migraine

Study results: Migraine in America 2014

Study suggests worsening trends in headache management

The science of migraines

Is It Time for a New Migraine Doctor?

HeadWay newsletter, Issue #123 - Migraines & Alzheimer’s

New Website Goes Live to Provide “Everything You Need to Know" About Migraine

*PEDIATRIC MIGRAINE / HEADACHE

Prochlorperazine for migraine may lower likelihood of Emergency room return for children

FDA grants priority review for Treximet to treat migraine in adolescent patients

Pediatric Migraines: Things Every Parent Should Know

American Migraine Foundation Offers Tips for Parents on Helping Their Children Cope with Migraine

Spotlight On Migraine in Children

Migraines and Kids: How to Cope

18 Reasons to Suspect Migraine in Your Child

Six Reasons for Headaches in School-Age Children and How Parents Can Help Relieve the Pain

*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.

Ten Techniques to Help Improve the Relationship With Your Doctor

for Pain Pathways magazine

Signs It’s Time to Change Doctors And How to Find a Physician You’ll Love

by Dorothy Foltz-Gray for Lifescript

The Year Of The Patient: 10 tips for safer, higher quality healthcare

by Martine Ehrenclou

How to Become a Fibromyalgia Truth Sleuth

by Sue Ingebretson for ProHealth

Tuesday-Newsday #181

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to sex and chronic pain/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

Chronic Pain Is a Family Matter: ACPA video offers help for those who live with someone with chronic pain

New research finds that acute stress dramatically reduces the body’s ability to control pain

Can Stress Trigger Pain?

Medtronic to pay $2.8 million to settle off-label promotion charges of neurostimlation device for chronic pain patients

Pain Care Providers Day - March 20th

Finding the Etiology of Chronic Widespread Pain: The Right Tool Adds Precision to This Often Imprecise Diagnosis

'Floatation therapy' for pain relief, relaxation, and meditation

--For more info and to see a study of this treatment for Fibromyalgia patients, click this line

New Criteria Would Double Fibromyalgia Cases: More than 5% of the general population could be diagnosed under new system

eMTCP Music App: Using Music to Help Manage Pain

This Gaming Wearable Helps Relieve Back Pain

Cigna helps test efficacy of standalone self management app for back pain

Does Acceptance Reduce Suffering?

Dealing With Chronic Illnesses and Depression

*MEDICATION NEWS

If you have Fibromyalgia and take Hydrocodone, please take this survey

Gender of provider may impact pain management practices

Terminally ill cancer patients denied prescription drugs at the pharmacy

Opioids for Chronic Pain: Interview with Pain Guru, Dr. Webster

12 things you should know about common pain relievers

Have we become too dependent on medication?

opinion: The Unintended Side Effects of Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse

*SUPPLEMENTS

GNC, Target, Wal-Mart, Walgreens accused of selling ‘herbals’ found with little of the herbs shown on their labels

Many supplement pills included potential allergens not identified in the ingredients list

Which vitamins and herbal supplements can you trust?

The truth about dietary supplements

*RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

Five Steps to Arthritis Pain Relief: Find your best mix of pain-relief techniques

Hope for arthritis sufferers after electrical implants leave patients 'pain free'

New drug combination shows promise as effective, safe treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

Blood Test Could Prevent Medication Trial and Error for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

NSAIDs Effective for RA Symptoms, Celebrex Easier on Stomach

RA: Effect of 'Complete Disease Control' on Pain, Function

Lower Doses of Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs May Work for Some

Simponi (golimumab) Benefits Hold Up Over Time in RA

No RA Benefit With Remicade Addition

Statins and RA: No joint benefit, but their use is associated with poor physical functioning and poor self-rated health

Xeljanz: A Blessing or a Curse for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients?

Durable Drug-Free Remission Possible for RA

Early Aggressive Therapy Becoming the Norm in RA: Treatment doubled remission rates

Data show Vectra DA is better predictor of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis patients

High Marks for Actemra: More patients given tocilizumab reached remission at 3 months compared with those on TNF inhibitors

opinion: What?! — A doctor dismisses Arthritic Chick’s need for narcotic pain meds

Meditation eases rheumatoid arthritis symptoms

New Model for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Improves Quality of Care and Reduces Costs

Are RA Patients More Sensitive to Pain? A high proportion of them also satisfy criteria for fibromyalgia

Patients with RA, fibromyalgia less likely to achieve remission, low disease activity

NIH Announces Network to Accelerate Medicines for RA, Lupus

Sugary Sodas May Raise RA Risk

Arthritis, Depression, and Disability: A Vicious Cycle

Choice of Contraception May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Autoimmunity Risk

Pregnancy Can Raise Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Research about pregnancy and arthritis medications

Certain Infections Linked to Reduced Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Very Low or High BMI Makes it More Difficult for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients to Remain in Remission

Support group, education program offered strong positive impact for RA patients

RA Mortality High but Improving

Gait in RA: It's More Than Joints

Fall Risk Factors in RA Are Not Clear

Shared symptoms of Chikungunya virus, rheumatoid arthritis may cloud diagnosis

Writing or relaxing – which helps RA pain?

Socioeconomics Predict Outcome in Arthritis

Joint Decisions Chat #2: Making informed decisions about RA treatments

Family History of Arthritis Doesn't Always Up RA Risk

Herpes Zoster Vaccine May Benefit Younger People with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

What is psoriatic arthritis and how does it differ from rheumatoid arthritis?

Exposure to Mercury, Seafood Associated with Risk Factor for Autoimmune Disease

Tenosynovitis detected by MRI in the hands & wrists of 2/3 of early RA patients

Targeting Fatty Acids May Be Treatment Strategy for Arthritis

Joint Pain, From the Gut: Could microbiome — bacteria that live in our gastrointesntial tracts—be the cause of RA?

Former doctor turned standup comedian raises awareness about Rheumatoid arthritis

opinion: How to make informed decisions about your RA treatment when you are tired, in pain, and overwhelmed

Dancing When You Have RA: How one patient stays on her toes

*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.

How People in Pain Can Revive Their Sex Lives

by Nora Isaacs

Illness & Sex: Six Strategies for Improving Intimacy

by Bruce Campbell of CFIDS & Fibromyalgia Self-Help

What Are The Barriers To Sex When You Have Chronic Pain?

by Linda S. Ruehlman for Pain Pathways

Tuesday-Newsday #180

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to Valentine’s Day.

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

Abuse-Deterrent Zohydro Gets FDA Approval; But abuse-deterrant label delayed until further study

FDA Approves Abuse-Deterrent Hydrocodone: Hysingla ER

FL pharmacies deny consumers pain prescriptions: Consumers say they feel like criminals being forced to 'pharmacy shop'

Deaths Higher With Methadone vs Morphine in Chronic Pain

Addiction risk from powerful painkillers is usually low

NIH Panel for “The Role of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic Pain” - links provided for actual videocast and written report

NSAIDs May Increase Risk for Venous Thromboembolism

Study Focuses on Predicting Poor Candidates for Cervical Facet Joint Block

The Office of Inspector General recommends 55 practices to ensure quality and safety of Compounded Drugs

Study Underscores Power of Placebo Effect: Patients responded better when told a drug was expensive

Aussie study finds chronic pain patients get more relief from cannabis than conventional Rx

Marijuana legalization: unanticipated effects on the medical community

Unmet medication need in neuropathic pain

Ask the Pharmacist: Can My Insurance Help Get a Prescription Filled?

opinion: My chronic pain isn’t a crime

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Online survey seeking Pain Patients for their opinions

Sleep eludes patients with musculoskeletal pain

Treating Women’s Pain: Rose Oil, Yoga and Music

Study: Plasma Injections Better than Surgery or Steroids

The Emerging Use of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Musculoskeletal Medicine

Aromatherapy for Pain Relief: Learn which scents are most effective for pain relief and relaxation

Chronic pain common in affective disorders

Relieving Pain in KS: A local initiative seeks to lift the shadows of chronic pain

review: The Chronic Pain Movie “Cake” Doesn’t Quite Make It?

*PATIENT NEWS

Patients’ Medical Records Hacked at Alarming Rate: Tips to protect yourself

How much health care data is mined without your knowledge?

Patients Themselves the Next Data Frontier: More involvement in their own records will enhance care

Patients Clueless About Treatment Risks, Doctors Are Little Help: Estimations of benefit-risk balance often wildly askew

How informed are doctors on whether the medical products they use actually work?

Most cancers are 'caused by bad luck, not lifestyle': Scientists claim 65% of cases are random mistakes in genes that we can do nothing about  

Medical Evidence Scant for Much TV Docs' Advice

9 Signs You Should Fire Your Doctor 

Inside Canada’s secret world of medical error: ‘There is a lot of lying, there’s a lot of cover-up’

Distraction techniques may reduce pain, anxiety during conscious surgery

The Health Benefits of Tea

*OBAMACARE

Have Insurers Found Way Around The 'Pre-Existing Conditions' Rule? Hiking drug co-pays may help eliminate people with certain illnesses

opinion: My Obamacare Agony, by a fibromyalgia patient

doctor’s opinion: Costs to manage Pain Treatment will go up under Obamacare

One-size-fits-all health care could mean bankruptcy and death, especially for one family with 2 chronically ill children

Treating chronic illness with cough syrup: Life in the Obamacare coverage gap

Here's How Obamacare Is Going To Affect Your Taxes

Health Care Law Is Not One-Size-Fits-All, and Here’s Why

Obamacare 'Glitch' Puts Subsidies Out Of Reach For Many Families

Health Law's Big Tent Still Leaves Some People Out

opinion: Obamacare pain will hit in 2017

*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.

Romantic Ideas for A Chronically Ill Woman to Romance Her Husband

by Lisa Copen, founder of Rest Ministries

Sex, Affection and Valentine’s Day

by Helena at Chronic Marriage: Helping couples with chronic illness build extraordinary marriages

Sex, Emotional Engagement and a Better Marriage

also by Helena at Chronic Marriage