Tuesday-Newsday #188

Time for Tuesday-Newsday! The Featured Blog Posts this week are all related to making changes or acknowledging progress when living with 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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~* ALERT:  Rx May Be Linked to Dangerous Infections *~

Ingredient in Multiple Sclerosis, Psoriasis Drugs Linked to Two Deadly Brain Infections; But no cause/effect proved to the drugs Tecfidera, Psorinovo

*MEDICATION NEWS

Is The Media Missing The Point On Pain Medication Dispute?

Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain & Pleasure, Very Small Study Finds

Pain Relief from Over-the-Counter Pain Medications

Newly identified compounds in spider venom could help treat chronic pain

Common cholesterol drug stimulates the same receptors as Marijuana and may help relieve pain

Arthritis Patients: Guidance for Help With Medication Cost Now Available

Biologics are revolutionizing care for some diseases, but they are very costly

*CHRONIC PAIN NEWS

Are Elected Officials Listening to Chronic Pain Patients?

Women Treated for Pain Differently

Light Therapy Helps Joint Pain and More, New Study Underway

Shift From IV to Oral Sedation for Pain Procedures?

These startups could completely change how we manage pain and treat cancer

Researchers probing potential power of meditation as therapy for migraines, pain

Change Through The Painful Truth: A Book and TV Documentary

Researchers Say 3D Printing with Animal Bone May Regenerate Human Bones, Manage Pain

Pfizer, Lilly to resume testing of experimental pain drug Tanezumab

*FIBROMYALGIA

Fibromyalgia Awareness Day 2015 is May 12th!

Feast Friendship and HOPE for Fibromyalgia Awareness 2015

New Criteria Would Double Fibromyalgia Cases

Fibromyalgia:  A Real Medical Disease

Duloxetine response can vary in fibromyalgia patients based on subgroup classification

Pfizer pain drug Lyrica fails study in adolescents with fibromyalgia

2010 ACR adult FM criteria useful in screening for juvenile fibromyalgia

More than half of patients with fibromyalgia may have comorbidities

Fibromyalgia: Understand the diagnosis process

Symptoms of Fibromyalgia Infographic

Fibromyalgia Patients at Greater Risk for IBS

Sleep Apnea Relationship with Fibromyalgia

Poor Sleep Quality Linked to Increased Pain and Reduced Activity in Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia: Need to Nap Increases as Symptoms Worsen

Floatation therapy for pain relief, relaxation, and meditation

Fibromyalgia Flotation Project studying Flotation REST as a treatment for people suffering from fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia Pathophysiology and Treatment Implications

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

Patients with fibromyalgia had worse cognitive function than those with RA, in small study

Is fibromyalgia hereditary?

Suicidal ideation correlates strongly with depression in patients with fibromyalgia, small study finds

Fibromyalgia Symptoms Improve Following Parathyroidectomy, Says Study

Can Heat Therapy Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain?

Fibromyalgia Symptoms Predict Arthroplasty Outcomes

Can’t Work Because Of Fibro? New Ruling Gives Fibro Sufferers Disability Payments

Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Fibromyalgia

The Role of Spirituality in Healing

National Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Association (NfmCPA) newsletter - Advocate Voice Jan/Feb edition

Prohealth Fibromyalgia HealthWatch e-letter

First issue of new Fibromyalgia Aware magazine - winter 2015 issue

3 Levels of Fibromyalgia Limitations

Is Driving Safe with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

*CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME / M.E. / S.E.I.D.

Immune System Changes Tied to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue 'Brain Fog' Clues in Spinal Fluid

Why exercise magnifies exhaustion for chronic fatigue syndrome patients

Exercise and chronic fatigue syndrome: an interview with Professor Trudie Chalder

The Role of Antiviral Therapy in Chronic Fatigue Treatment

A Disease Doctors Refuse to See: CFS Needs Effective Treatments

One doctor’s opinion: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Right Name, Real Treatments

opinion: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ME, SEID & Other Names: Why I Use What I Use

Is Driving Safe with Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

*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.

It’s So Easy to Look Ahead, We Often Fail to Give Ourselves Credit For How Far We’ve Come (The Flawed Fibromyalgia Success Map) 

by Sue Ingebretson

5 Ways You're Not 'Living' With Chronic Illness

by Ilana Jacqueline 

How Can We Embrace Change? Get Curious! (AWAP Wednesday)

by Jenni Prokopy, editrix of ChronicBabe.com

Decisions to Change: Is Your Fibromyalgia Health Journey Like a Movie Plot?

by Sue Ingebretson