Archive for the ‘Pain’ Category

Long term opiate use safe; One woman’s experience with Savella

There are two great arti­cles from Karen Lee Richards in HealthCentral’s Chronic Pain Con­nec­tion newslet­ter today. The first, One Patient’s Expe­ri­ence with Savella for Fibromyal­gia, Richards brings us detailed feed­back from one of her con­tacts, Brenda, who has been tak­ing the new drug for seven weeks. Many of us have heard of Savella, but so […]

December 3, 2009  Tags: chronic pain, Forest Tennant, Karen Lee Richards, opiates, Savella  Posted in: Fibromyalgia, Pain, Resources, treatments  6 Comments

Do you have chronic myofascial pain (trigger points)?

Trig­ger points (TrPs) con­fuse many peo­ple. Peo­ple who suf­fer from Fibromyal­gia Syn­drome (FMS) have ten­der points that are used for diag­no­sis, not trig­ger points. TrPs can lead to Chronic Myofas­cial Pain (CMP). Try­ing to explain both of them is really beyond me, but Devin Star­lanyl does a great job of mak­ing all of it clear. […]

August 19, 2009  Tags: chronic myofascial pain, CMP, trigger points  Posted in: Pain, treatments  One Comment

Fibromyalgia or Depression?

There are many peo­ple, espe­cially doc­tors, who claim that fibromyal­gia is just a symp­tom of depres­sion. I’ve had both, and I know the dif­fer­ence quite well. They are very, very dif­fer­ent. Being in pain all the time can cer­tainly lead to depres­sion. That’s just log­i­cal. There are, how­ever, peo­ple who have fibromyal­gia who are not […]

May 24, 2008  Tags: depression, Fibromyalgia, FMS, psychology  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  4 Comments

Interview: Chronic Pain and Sex

The inter­view we did is up! Chronic Pain and Sex: a Couple’s Gen­tle Bat­tle With Fibromyal­gia I’m pleased with it. There are very few, mostly imma­te­r­ial inaccuracies.

May 14, 2008  Tags: chronic pain, intimacy, relationships, sex  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news, Pain  No Comments

FMS at PostSecret">FMS at PostSecret

Did any­one else see this at Post­Se­cret today? I was made aware of it by a post to fibromyal­gia.1 Reac­tions there are fairly neg­a­tive, because so many of us have had bad expe­ri­ences with peo­ple who think we’re malin­ger­ing. I have mixed feel­ings, though. I don’t exactly share the sen­ti­ments expressed in the piece, but […]

March 23, 2008  Tags: anxiety, fear, PostSecret  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  3 Comments