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$1.8 Million Awarded for Pain Research
Researchers from the U of Michigan received $1.8 Million to develop a new therapy for neuropathic pain, which is a condition in which patients experience pain due to damage to a nerve without obvious injury to the tissue. “This grant will allow...
Pain Is Getting Worse In Arms Now
I don’t know if it is from my sinuses or if something new is going on but the pain I am experiencing is terrible. It started in my legs back when my sinuses first became really bad. Now the pain has moved to my arms and it is so bad, especi...
Using What’s In Your Kitchen to Alleviate Pain & Inflammation
More and more people are trying to find more natural and less invasive methods of treating pain and illness these days. With all of the problems we hear routinely regarding prescription & OTC medication side effects and problems they cause, it ...
Guest Blogger Post: The Messages in Physical Pain
Please welcome Abigail Steidley, owner of The Healthy Life, LLC Life Coaching Services and blogger of The Vagina Dialogues as guest blogger for this week. You can read Abigail’s bio at the end of her post. Pain and illness are ways the body send...
Pelvic Pain Seminar to Be Held In New Jersey
On November 7th & 8th, there will be an Orthopedic Management of Pelvic Pain Seminar in Englewood, New Jersey. Orthopedic Management of Pelvic Pain is a lab-based continuing education seminar designed for the clinician that has practical experien...
Sign Petition To Protect Our Rights to Pain Medications!
Please read the following press release from the Interstitial Cystitis Association and click on the link where indicated to sign the petition. We need our pain medications and they should not be taken from us! Instead of taking these needed pai...
New Pain Medication Available For Interstitial Cystitis
A new pain medication is now available to help Interstitial Cystitis patients deal with the pain they suffer from. Nucynta (tapentadol ), an opiate pain medication, has similar strength to Oxycodone but is supposed to be easier on the stomach & h...
Webcast On Chronic Pain
I received an email on an upcoming webcast by Dr. Russell Portenoy of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, who is a world renown pain medicine physician. The July 20th webcast will discuss how to treat all areas of chronic pain. Here is the press ...
FDA Says Darvocet Must Include Stronger Warnings
Darvocet, Darvon and generics for these have not been banned by the FDA but the prescriptions must include stronger warnings about the potential for overdose and death. The advisory panel was recommending that Darvocet and Darvon be banned but...
Gingko May Help Nerve Pain
Ginko is an herb Fibro patients can take to help with brain fog but there has now been another use possibly found for gingko: nerve pain and pain that is felt with normal touch, also known as allodynia. Allodynia is what Fibromyalgia patients exp...
APF Urges you to read this alert and TAKE ACTION TODAY Regarding Pain Medications
I received this message via Facebook from my friend Carolyn Noel of the American Pain Foundation. This is very serious and will affect many of us with chronic pain conditions if the FDA gets their way. Please read and do your part so that we don&...
FDA Offers Guidance for the Safe Use of Pain Medicine
The FDA has released a document that discusses safety concerns with different types of painkillers - this includes both prescription and over-the-counter pain meds. It discusses different types of pain relievers, their active ingredients, how they mu...
