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Comment on Long term opiate use safe; One woman’s experience with Savella by Karen Lee Richards

Karen Lee Richards — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:53:49 +0000

On behalf of ChronicPainConnection, I’d like to thank you for your very kind words. It means a lot to know that our site is helping to provide useful information and encouragement.

I also wanted to tell you that I love the title of your blog! So clever â€“ and it projects such a wonderful, positive attitude. I appreciate your efforts here to educate and support people with fibromyalgia. â€“ Karen

Comment on Do you have trigger points/CMP? by Austin Pain Management

Austin Pain Management — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:34:38 +0000

Millions of people in the United States suffer from chronic pain, and much of that suffering cannot be relieved adequately by existing treatments. Patients are in desperate need of new pain management approaches.

Comment on Do you have trigger points/CMP? by Body Back Buddy

Body Back Buddy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:45:43 +0000

[…] Do you have trigger points/CMP? – Body Back Buddy I had my monthly visit with my pain management doctor today, and mentioned the problem. Right off, the PA asked if I wanted to try trigger point injections. Within 15 minutes, the pain was fading. … […]

Comment on I’m alive! How about you? by Hope

Hope — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:18 +0000

Yay for still alive! And Yay!! for disability finally being approved.

I sometimes wonder if there isn’t some level of sadism in the “design” of Medicare benefits. I work with Medicare professionally, and wouldn’t begin to claim I know all that much about it.

Comment on Why Can’t We Think Well When We’re Sick? by Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:22:08 +0000

Actually it is — but unfortunately not in the good way. James Jones, a virologist who studies ME/CFS at the Centers for Disease Control, wrote a paper recently arguing that people with ME/CFS have become stuck in sickness behavior even though we are no longer sick. And because we are stuck in this aberrant sickness behavior, we’re too focused on every little thing we’re feeling, or rather have heightened “interoception”. His cure, as you might imagine, is cognitive behavioral therapy.

You can read the paper at the Co-Cure board here:

http://tinyurl.com/2wen2z (I hope that link works!)

Now, what would make interesting research is looking at the biological reasons we are in a chronic state of sickness behavior.