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Stories, insights, tools and tactics from people who confronted the worst chronic pain imaginable, surmounted it, and are now ready to tell the rest of us how they did it.
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A Ballet Master’s Balancing Act to Fight Parkinson’s - Alexander Tressor uses exercise, diet and stress reduction to keep Parkinson’s at bay.
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Could ballet master Alexander Tressor mobilize exercise, diet and stress reduction to keep his Parkinson’s-related pain and other symptoms at bay? Ten years after his diagnosis, here’s how his DIY protocol is playing out. When Alexander Tressor was 47 and living in Manhattan, a neurologist gave him what Tressor stoically calls “The Bad News.” A Rus…
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How Not to Get Gouged at the Pharmacy: GoodRx - Review: GoodRx reveals which drugstores sell the meds you need at the cheapest price.
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Are you paying too much for your prescription meds? GoodRx can keep you from being overcharged at your pharmacy counter. Different pharmacies charge different prices for the same drugs. And the money you’re throwing away can be huge! And don’t think I’m comparing the prices at a mom-and-pop pharmacy in one state with a drug store inside a Big Box r…
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How To Become a Guinea Pig: Using ClinicalTrials.gov - Review: ClinicalTrials.gov can help you find experimental treatments for chronic pain.
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When none of the standard treatments relieve your chronic pain, should you try an experimental approach by volunteering for a clinical trial? And if so, how? It’s an all-too-common scenario: You’ve seen a slew of doctors who’ve prescribed countless treatments to erase your pain. Nevertheless, it persists. So what now? “There are scientists right th…
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A Ketamine Coma Was Her Last Resort: RSD/CRPS - Tormented by RSD/CRPS, she bet her life on a do-or-die trip to Mexico and a 5-day coma.
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Her medical career halted by chronic pain, Shannon Stocker chose a high-risk procedure involving a powerful anesthetic, a five-day coma, and a do-or-die medical-tourism journey to Mexico. Shannon Stocker was 30 years old and in her last year of medical school when she first felt the pain. It started in her right arm and eventually became so debilit…
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Does Your Doctor Work for You or Big Pharma? Dollars for Docs - Review: Dollars for Docs reveals if your MD has taken payments and perks from Big Pharma.
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Has your doctor accepted payments and perks from drug and medical-device makers? Dollars for Docs can give you the answer. Every time you seek treatment for your chronic pain, you rightly expect to have your doctor’s undivided attention in the examining room. You also expect one other thing: your doctor’s undivided loyalty. After all, you’re the on…
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Uncle Sam Is His Dealer: Medical Marijuana - This chronic-pain patient talked the feds into giving him free marijuana for decades.
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Meet the chronic-pain patient who talked the feds into supplying him with free, legal medical marijuana for the last 34 years. You’ve probably heard about our guest today, maybe not by name but certainly by way of urban legend. The story goes like this: In Mississippi, the U.S. government has been growing marijuana for decades and giving the crop f…
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Can a Plant-Based Diet Beat Ulcerative Colitis? - By eating low on the food chain, she hoped to tame her ulcerative colitis. But did it work?
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By switching from the pharmacy to the produce section, 32-year-old Gabrielle Fennimore hoped to tame her worsening ulcerative colitis. But did it work? By now, we’ve all heard that eating a plant-based diet protects against cardiovascular disease. But can you eat your way to better health if your medical problem is chronic pain? And if so, which di…
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This Health Coach Won’t Take No For an Answer: MyFitnessPal - Review: Struggling to reach your diet and exercise goals? MyFitnessPal can help.
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Fallen short of your diet and exercise goals and feel lousy because of it? Meet MyFitnessPal, an online personal trainer that’ll keep you on track. Is your doctor urging you to lose weight, limit your sodium, get more active, and make other lifestyle changes that push your willpower to the breaking point? “What I like about MyFitnessPal is, everybo…
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Pelvic Pain Demands a Rewrite - At an innovative pelvic-pain clinic, a journalist learns how to ratchet down his pain.
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Previously on Painopolis, editor and health journalist David Sharp described his descent into chronic pelvic pain syndrome and recounted his early reliance on a urologist who misdiagnosed the cause of Sharp’s pain for years. The urologist treated him with a drug that failed to quell his pain and would later be taken off the market for causing an in…
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Our Anus Horribilis: Pelvic Pain - Slammed by horrific rectal and genital pain, journalist David Sharp scrambles for answers and relief.
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Today, Painopolis editor David Sharp outs himself as a chronic-pain sufferer, talks about the 20 years he spent in the Land of the Misdiagnosed, and recalls the unforgettable day his ass spontaneously imploded. “When you’re in terrible pain, doing nothing is not an option. It’s like, ‘I can’t just lay here and hope the pain goes away by itself.’” P…
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It’s Like Google on Steroids: PubMed - Review: Still using the big kahuna of search engines to answer crucial medical questions? That’s because you haven’t tried PubMed.gov.
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Still using the big kahuna of search engines to answer crucial medical questions? That’s because you haven’t tried PubMed.gov. Imagine how empowering it would be to tap into the minds of top scientists. And not just any top scientists, but rather, the very people who’ve devoted their lives to coming up with better treatments for your specific medic…
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JFK: A Profile in Chronic Back Pain - The biggest secret of John F. Kennedy’s presidency wasn’t his sex life. It was his crippling chronic pain and his covert ways of treating it.
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The biggest secret of John F. Kennedy’s presidency wasn’t his sex life. It was his crippling chronic pain and his covert ways of treating it. In 1947, an American congressman suddenly collapsed while traveling in Europe. He was taken to a doctor, who concluded that the 30-year-old man was in such terrible shape that he’d be dead within a year. Afte…
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Painopolis Podcast Coming Soon! - We’ll bring you stories about people who confronted chronic pain, surmounted it, and are now ready to tell the rest of us how they did it. Prepare to be riveted.
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Welcome to Painopolis! It’s a new podcast for people with chronic pain. And also for everybody else. “We’ll bring you stories about people who confronted the worst hell imaginable, surmounted it, and are now ready to tell the rest of us how they did it.” That’s because we’ll bring you stories about people who confronted the worst hell imaginable, s…
