Saturday, August 29, 2015

Poll Is There A Stigma Where You Live About Taking Opiates?


Poll Is There A Stigma Where You Live About Taking Opiates?

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Poll What Clothes are Worst for Fibromyalgia Pain?


Poll What Clothes are Worst for Fibromyalgia Pain?

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Poll What helps you when you are in pain?


Poll What helps you when you are in pain?


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Poll Do you ever experience aura with your migraine attacks?


Poll Do you ever experience aura with your migraine attacks?


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Poll Pain Patients: What is one thing you want your family, friends and others to understand or do?


Poll Pain Patients: What is one thing you want your family, friends and others to understand or do?

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Poll When are you most affected by pain?

Poll When are you most affected by pain?

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Topic: Specialist of Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) (Volunteer)

Topic: Specialist of Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) (Volunteer)






The Specialist (Search Engine Optimizer (SEO)) is a position for those who have specific knowledge of a specific area of expertise and loves to post about their subject by posting articles, chats, videos, etc. This position reports directly to the Vice President (Karla Rabel) and to Dr. Patty.

The basic responsibilities of a Specialist (Search Engine Optimizer (SEO)) are:

• “Friend” Dr. Patty and all staff (one time only)

• Customize your profile and put up a picture, it can be a tag or a pet or an avatar.(one time only)

Have knowledge of social media and make sure that our social media sites are up to date.

Check your private email daily as notifications and private messages are sometimes routed through general email (A CIPAY mailbox will be given to you for CIPAY business only).

•Check your CIPAY inbox daily for messages. We request that you respond to member’s comments and questions within 24 hours (at the most, 48 hours). If you are unable to answer the question, please ask another staff member to help.

•Other duties as assigned

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Dr Patty's Chronic-Intractable Pain and You Main Site - Chronic Polls #3



What does your pharmacy require from you before filling your prescriptions ? Select all that apply

Script only
Confirmation call to my prescribing physician
Proof of medical condition (medical records)
Government issued identification (Drivers license or ID card)
Confirmation of prior approval and authorization from insurer
Other comment

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Dr Patty's Chronic-Intractable Pain and You Main Site - Ask Dr Patty

Dr Patty's Chronic-Intractable Pain and You Main Site - Ask Dr Patty



Polls: Does your current pharmacy have a policy that prohibits the filling of scripts for schedule II narcotics?

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Topic: Here's why you can skip the new insomnia drug, Belsomra



A sleepless night or two can leave you so tired and miserable that it can be tempting to take a medication that promises to help you slip into slumber. But the truth is that sleeping pills like Ambien and Lunesta don’t actually improve your sleep much, according to a Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs analysis, and the newest insomnia medication, Belsomra (suvorexant), is no exception.



It might help you nod off a few minutes faster or stay asleep slightly longer. But that small benefit comes with some big safety concerns, such as being too drowsy to drive the next day or feeling like you can’t move or talk.



We were prompted to take a close look at Belsomra, which is made by Merck, because it’s a new type of sleeping pill called an orexin-receptor antagonist. It acts on the brain in a different way compared to older insomnia meds. The Food and Drug Administration initially rejected high doses of Belsomra—30 mg and 40 mg—because it said they posed a dangerous risk of next-day drowsiness that could lead to deadly auto crashes. 



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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Crohn's Disease, Colitis Tied to Anxiety in Study

People with inflammatory bowel disease, such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, have an increased risk for an anxiety disorder, especially women, a new study suggests. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of disorders that cause chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. "Patients with IBD face substantial chronic physical problems associated with the disease," lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, a professor from the University of Toronto, said in a university news release. "The additional burden of anxiety disorders makes life much more challenging so this 'double jeopardy' must be addressed." The study authors looked at 269 Canadian adults who had been diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease. The researchers found that these patients were two times more likely to have had generalized anxiety disorder at some point in their lives than adults without Crohn's or colitis.



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Study Reveals Brain Mechanism Behind Chronic Pain's Sapping of Motivation

Chronic pain is among the most abundant of all medical afflictions in the developed world. It differs from a short-term episode of pain not only in its duration, but also in triggering in its sufferers a psychic exhaustion best described by the question, “Why bother?” A new study in mice, conducted by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has identified a set of changes in key parts of the brain that may explain chronic pain’s capacity to stifle motivation. The discovery could lead to entirely new classes of treatment for this damaging psychological consequence of chronic pain.



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How to File for Social Security Disability

If you're eligible for Social Security disability (as opposed to SSI), you can file your application online. It used to be that, to file for disability, a Social Security or SSI disability claimant had to call the SSA (Social Security Administration), request that an application be taken for disability benefits, and then wait to be interviewed, either over the phone at a later date, or in person at the Social Security office. To file for disability today, these options still apply. In fact, for many individuals who need to file for disability, a phone interview is convenient and, to others, an office interview may be more comfortable. Many applicants like to have the assistance of an SSA field representative to fill out the application. However, a third option does exist today for the individual who needs to file an SSDI (Social Security Disability Insurance) claim: to file for disability benefits online.



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Chronic Pain in Recovery

When people are dealing with chronic pain, it can greatly reduce the extent to which they enjoy their own life. The discomfort can impact almost every aspect of their day-to-day experiences. It can lead to depression and thoughts of giving up. Some people who escape addiction may have to deal with chronic pain in their recovery. This can be a challenge. Some may be tempted to revert back to their old maladaptive behaviors in order to hide from the discomfort. This is always a great pity, because there is usually an effective solution for chronic pain. It is almost always possible for such an individual to build a satisfying pain-free life away from addiction.



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Apitherapy

Apitherapy, or bee therapy, is the use of products of the common honeybee for therapeutic purposes. (The term comes from the Latin apis, which means “bee.” Honeybee venom, bee pollen, raw honey, royal jelly, and propolis are the products generally considered to have medicinal effects. These products are said to be effective against a wide range of ailments, from arthritis and chronic pain to multiple sclerosis and cancer, although few scientific studies have as yet proved their benefits. The history of apitherapy extends back to ancient Egypt, Greece, and China. Even Hippocrates, the Greek physician known as the “father of medicine,” used bee venom to treat arthritis and other joint problems. Austrian physician Phillip Terc initiated the modern study of bee venom and intentional bee stings when he published his article “Report about a Peculiar Connection Between the Beestings and Rheumatism” in 1888. The late beekeeper Charles Mraz of Middlebury, Vermont, is credited with popularizing bee venom therapy over the past 60 years in the United States. Today, thousands of medical professionals and lay practitioners use apitherapy throughout the world.



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A Holistic Approach To Pain Management

Helping to alleviate chronic pain in people involves more than just prescribing pills for them to pop or giving them a shot. Pain management, or algiatry, is the medical specialty of preventing, evaluating, treating, and rehabilitating persons in pain. Chronic pain may have originated with an injury or infection or there may be an ongoing cause of pain. Some people suffer chronic pain in the absence of any past injury or evidence of body damage. Whatever the cause of the pain, its management and relief should take a multidisciplinary and holistic approach.



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Childhood Bad Behavior Linked to Adult Chronic Pain

Researchers have found a significant link between childhood behavioral problems and chronic pain in adulthood. Dr. Dong Pang of Aberdeen University, UK, and colleagues explain that chronic widespread pain affects about 12 percent of adults and can cause disability. It has previously been linked to major events in childhood such as hospitalization after a road accident and separation from mothers. The team used a group of 19,478 participants who were born in a single week in 1958, and followed them through childhood and adulthood.



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Pain Management: Pacing and Goal Setting

Chronic pain can change the way that people live their lives and carry out their daily activities. For example many people found that they could no longer perform certain tasks without experiencing increased pain and fatigue. This could lead to them becoming increasingly inactive, or catching up on jobs when they had a good day, which then lead to a flare-up of pain and the need to rest up for a few days (see also 'Coping with flare-up'). Many of the people that we talked to had learnt techniques to manage their activities, minimise their pain and help prevent flare-ups. Usually these techniques had been learnt on NHS Pain Management Programmes through healthcare professionals, or support groups, but others had learnt through the Internet or books (see also 'Learning about pain management'; 'NHS pain management programmes').



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Don't Treat Me Like That: Chronic Pain Sufferers Fear Pharmacists Consider Them 'Drug Addicts'

It makes a lot of sense, but it’s an area that is a little-known truth: people who suffer from chronic pain have concerns about how they’ll be treated by their healthcare providers. A study by the National Pain Foundation found that more than half (52 percent) of chronic pain sufferers worry that their pharmacist will treat them like a “drug addict.” Another 29 percent expressed concerns that they’ll “be embarrassed by their pharmacist.” Nearly one in five (17 percent) said they’d been treated “poorly or very poorly” by their pharmacist. The survey results, posted on NationalPainReports.com, show that 319 people (80 percent female), completed the survey that was initially distributed to 3,000 chronic pain sufferers. Subjects experienced pain for a wide of reasons, although fibromyalgia was the most commonly reported pain.



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Fibromyalgia Now Considered As a Lifelong Central Nervous System Disorder

Fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disorder behind osteoarthritis and, though still widely misunderstood, is now considered to be a lifelong central nervous system disorder, which is responsible for amplified pain that shoots through the body in those who suffer from it. Daniel Clauw, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, University of Michigan, analyzed the neurological basis for fibromyalgia in a plenary session address today at the American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting.



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Fibromyalgia Now Considered As a Lifelong Central Nervous System Disorder

Fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disorder behind osteoarthritis and, though still widely misunderstood, is now considered to be a lifelong central nervous system disorder, which is responsible for amplified pain that shoots through the body in those who suffer from it. Daniel Clauw, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, University of Michigan, analyzed the neurological basis for fibromyalgia in a plenary session address today at the American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting.



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