Are you in pain? Chronic? Acute? Both?
The following article provides a great discussion of chronic and acute pain.Acute pain usually comes on suddenly and is caused by something specific. It is sharp in quality. Acute pain usually does not...
View ArticleFeeling Down, Hurting in More ways than one !
A few weeks ago I was feeling on top of the world. Well okay not the very top but close. I was going to be able to get the car fixed finally and could breathe a bit. Then the other shoe dropped....
View ArticleKosAbility: Managing the Chronic pain/Insomnia Cycle
Do you live with chronic pain? Do you have trouble sleeping? I do, and I know I’m not alone. The numbers vary by source, from about 40% to 70%, but however you slice it, insomnia is common among people...
View ArticleChronic Pain? What is your usual pain level?
Do you feel chronic pain?I do in my lower right abdomen due to crohn’s and my left leg from the knee south due to a whole host of issues.I know not everyone likes the 1-10 pain scale but I found a...
View ArticleHow much does pain interfere with your day-to-day activities?
From prior discussions in poll diaries and diary series I know that too many of us suffer from chronic pain.I live in Michigan and in the winter my pain levels shoot up, along with my usual levels of...
View ArticlePain Pain Pain. It sucks. I am in a lot of it. Trying to find something else...
ARGH I am beyond myself.For the last three weeks I have had tremendous crohn’s pain, gone in the hospital for it, was told I have no blockages so there is nothing that they can do, get hydrated and...
View ArticleKosAbility: Jan. 28th topic - Disability and Relationships
I hope you will all join us at 4pm PST on January 28thfor the KosAbility monthly meeting. Occupystephanie will be starting us off with: “When Love Comes With Burdens”, because no disability happens in...
View ArticleCommunity Quilt for MaureenMower - Round 2
We are short 7 messages and $84 for this quilt — I will keep these numbers updated.MaureenMower is a widow of a man who had a lot of medical problems. Now that he is gone, her circumstances are...
View Articlea different opioid story..
Letter to the Editor of Time in response to special issue “The Opioid Diaries”March 3, 2018James Natchtwey did well in capturing the wretched bodies and ebbing lives of the addicted. You can almost see...
View ArticleCommunity Quilt for Rosebuddear
Rosebuddear is experiencing severe pain from an injury and it may be awhile before she can get an appointment at the VA for help. The other day, the pain was so intense, so overwhelming, she called...
View ArticleCoke Eyes MJ-Infused Drink Market + MJ for Pain & FM Treatment. OTC?...
It’ll be a massive irony if the pleasure-principle market turns out to help pain patients more than does the medical research industry’s decades of funding project after project claiming pain...
View ArticleBrain Inflammation Imaged for the First Time in Fibromyalgia
Example of an fMRI brain scan. Attribution: FastFission @ wikimedia commons and it’s his brain....although there has been mounting evidence that brain inflammation plays some role in fibromyalgia [FM],...
View ArticleJoin KosAbility's monthly gathering on Sunday 11/25
I hope you will mark your calendars for Sunday November 25th at 4pmPST, when KosAbility has our monthly meeting. FranksHuman will start us off with a post on how the absence of paper maps hurts some...
View ArticleKosAbility: Pressure Ulcers: More than Just a Pain on the Butt
Pressure ulcers are a common complication for hospitalized patients, residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities. It is a significant cause of disability, suffering, and degradation of...
View ArticleHealth Update: Good news so far.
First off ….pain sucks.I’ve had chronic pain in my back the last few years and nothing anyone has done has helped at all.At first they thought that my hips had very bad necrosis… and they had gotten to...
View ArticleDo you have chronic back pain? If so how have you treated it?
Chronic pain, if you do not know, sucks.I have osteoporosis which has led to back problems on top of osteoarthritis. It is not fun. Basically it results in a chronic pain in the lower central back.I...
View ArticleKosAbility: Join us Sunday 1/27 for "The Effects of Untreated Pain"
Please join us Sunday, 1/27 at 4pm PST for our monthly gathering. I’ll start us off with a post about the negative effects of under-treated chronic pain, and we’ll have our usual open thread. All are...
View ArticleKosAbility: The Negative Effects of Undertreated Chronic/Acute Pain
Recently, my eye was caught by a study that went into detail about the complications that arise when pain is not addressed well. It was a relief just to see that some doctors acknowledge that pain...
View ArticlePicks of the Week from the Daily Kos Community, Feb. 2 (and another question)
Greetings, dear Community. Another wild week (and month) is behind us, and it’s time for a roundup of some of our favorite diaries you fine folks have written since last Saturday.I so enjoy the...
View ArticleCommunity Quilt for twingrace
Twingrace is a very kind and gentle person, as we who follow various community diaries know all too well. Therefore it is particularly saddening to learn that she has been enduring great pain for a...
View ArticleCommunity Quilt for twingrace - Round 2
I wrote about twingrace's pain in the first community quilt diary for her — she has been suffering terribly for quite a long time now.A misshapen piece of metal (possibly a surgical clip) had somehow...
View Article"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: It's Real, and We Can Do Better" - CDC's...
February 25, 2019 Public Information from the CDC in collaboration with Medscape:An estimated 836,000 to 2.5 million Americans suffer from [Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis], a...
View ArticleKosAbility: Join us March 31st -the Pain Discussion continues
KosAbility meets on the last Sunday (3/31) 4pm PST. Join us as we continue the discussion about chronic pain, the latest news on research and activism (including a mind-boggling NPR article about...
View ArticleKosAbility: Your chance to comment on Pain Management Interagency Task Force
Please join us on Sunday, March 31st at 4PM Pacific for our monthly gathering. We'll continue the discussion on chronic pain. Meanwhile, here’s your chance to comment on the draft report issued by the...
View ArticleKosAbility: Protagonists like Me
Join us next Sunday, March 31st at 4pm PST for our monthly open thread on disability. I will have some new info on the pain controversy, some studies, some shifts in policy. Meanwhile today I have a...
View ArticleFDA Warns: Sudden Opioid Tapering is Harmful
File it under “Duh!”, but the FDA has finally admitted that the new medical practice of removing opioid medications from patients who’ve been on them — whether because the doc suddenly did a 180 about...
View ArticleChronic pain and the "opioid epidemic"
Let's start off with this. I'm a chronic pain sufferer.Due to an injury to both knees in my 20s, and osteoarthritis, there are no days that I don't hurt. If you put your hand on either of my kneecaps...
View ArticleCDC Clarifies: Our Guidelines ONLY for Initial Pain Prescriptions!
WELL! First question: what TOOK you so long?? Second question — have you sent this to EVERY doctor who’s taken their patients off opioids simply because hysteria went through the corporate medical and...
View ArticleKosAbility: Women Ill-Served By Exclusion From Pain Studies
Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the human body. It should not be confused with the opioids OxyContin or oxycodone. This was going to be a piece on how oxytocin is good for pain relief, except that is...
View ArticleI Have Been Away WAY TOO LONG !! I'm Sorry !!!
My life seems to have devolved into a pretty small pattern. Wake up, stumble to the computer, put in 8 or 9 hours, log off and then read. When I say stumble to the computer it is just that. A short...
View ArticleHow We Deal With Missing Out on Life. Call for Diaries !
About a gazillion years ago I had an actual life. I would be able to do normal stuff just like a normal person. Then came my chronic pain. I know it really wasn’t a gazillion years ago but it sure...
View ArticleKosAbility: Open Thread; Disability News and Views
KosAbility meets on the last Sunday of every month at 4pm PST; all are welcome; open thread.I had an overabundance of topics and info for this month’s post, and I failed the challenge to weave it into...
View ArticleThe Rehab Racket
By Íris Erlingsdóttir Those on the receiving end of America’s disastrous opioid prescription policies are rarely consulted by policymakers and politicians who have ruined the lives of thousands...
View ArticleKosAbility: Will COVID-19 lessons in inclusion and cooperation result in...
After three months, we’re still in the middle of this virus crisis, but there’s a little more clarity about which of the many approaches have been successful in helping people deal with it, and why....
View ArticleKosAbility Open Thread: Recent news articles
As we count down the time until we can breathe freely again, here are a couple news bits that impact the Disability community.This one is local but hopefully other places will follow this...
View ArticleKosAbility: Open Thread, News Bits
KosAbility’s monthly gathering is last Sunday of the month — 2/28 this month — at 4pm Pacific/ 7pm Eastern. ALL are welcome; it is an open thread. As is this — some disability news in case you missed...
View ArticleNot everyone who works in the medical community is a HERO, some are the worst...
What do you do when?Through no fault of your own, you are at the mercy of total strangers who believe they are helping you but couldn’t be hurting you more? Buzzing around your state Governor is a...
View ArticleThe 1-10 scale of pain. What caused you to be a 10, the most painful physical...
Everyday here I get asked about my pain level on a 1 to 10 scale. Usually I average around a 5, but then it gets brought down with PT or OT or meds to about a 3. I do and have tolerated a 3 basically...
View ArticleLow-Dose Naltrexone Finally Studied Seriously for Pain in 'Refractory Patients'
“...we're seeing that atlow doses,[1] ["Naltrexone[1]] has a paradoxical[2] effect where it exhibits anti-inflammatory properties and it may be beneficial for patients with fibromyalgia[1] or low-back...
View ArticlePleaseHelp: Need input from KaiserPerm pain-mgmt program members who are...
<big><big> I’m posting this for a valued, treasured friend in KP’s pain management program, who is put through drug testing for cannabis at least every 6 months or however often a...
View ArticleThe Truth About Opioid Pharmaceuticals, From A Patient. Alternate Title...
I wrote this post, partially, for all the young people, who know nothing, about opioid and other prescription drugs to try and help them. Always in the news about how so many are hooked. And for...
View ArticleMeat Loaf dead at 74, reportedly had a case of severe COVID
The singer, actor, and performer Meat Loaf passed away late Thursday night, according to a post made by his family on his Facebook page. No official cause has been given. The popular performer had a...
View ArticleUnlimited paid time off is a disability justice issue that needs to be taken...
by K AgbebiyiThis article was originally published at PrismPeople with chronic pain know that familiar feeling of dread that happens during a period of particularly heightened pain, typically referred...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
A Montana judge just gave probation to a convicted rapist. This is a weird one: the two victims agreed to the light sentence because they didn’t want to “ruin his life.”I’ve just started reading...
View ArticleMy chronic pain life
I was first diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder around 2000, after a lengthy series of blood tests and follow up visits, my doctor finally gave me an affirmative diagnosis of lupus. Back then, I was...
View ArticleOne of "those" days
Having one of those days today. Everything is starting to flare up at the same time, especially the brain fog...It’s taken me nearly 15 minutes to write this, but I’m forcing myself to put something,...
View ArticleMental Health, The Western States, And Psychedelic Therapy
The use of psychedelics in the treatment of mental health conditions, for personal use, spirituality, and self-exploration, or even for gaining an extra edge at work has been gaining traction in recent...
View ArticleFull of pain meds and low on energy.
This is going to be pretty short diary this week. Over the past couple months I've been doing some fairly heavy cleaning and lifting out in our sheds. I noticed a painful twinge start in my left hip....
View Article🌍This Week In The War On Women: News, History, & Routes to Doing...
____________________________________________________________'People die like that': Native Americans face serious barriers in accessing care.In Montana, where Native Americans comprise 6.7 percent of...
View ArticleGrief, sadness and chronic pain.
I have health problems that I have been trying to get a diagnosis for, this has been ongoing for years. I am also feeling extended grief for the death of my parents. Mom from lung cancer in 2004, and...
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