by Teresa Shaffer | Aug 5, 2014 | Advocacy, Medications, Self-Advocacy, Treatment Options |
It seems like just about every media article talking about pain medications has become a feeding frenzy which reports one side of the story. They take advantage of the uninformed and promote fear with biased and unsubstantiated claims that everyone who is prescribed...
by Janice Reynolds | Apr 25, 2014 | Daily Living, Medications |
In today’s world especially for those of us with persistent pain, a most important medical document is our medication list. Did you know that it is now are requirement to perform a medication reconciliation during each hospital visit? On admission, nursing must...
by Mark Maginn | Dec 10, 2013 | Daily Living, Dental Care, Side Effects |
Several years ago I began taking opioid medicines to combat the hideous pain I’d been living with for decades. It worked and I began to experience the happy diminution of pain throughout my body. But–there’s always a “but” in happy stories–a few years ago...
by Janice Reynolds | Oct 8, 2013 | Daily Living, Home Remedies, Side Effects |
with apologizes to Taro Gomi and Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Everybody Poops (by Gomi & Stinchecum) has been a favorite children’s book for over ten years. Kids love body functions; they find them hysterically funny. Sadly, as we get older, many of us lose our sense...
by Micke Brown, BSN, RN | Sep 17, 2013 | Medications, Treatment Options |
I was reading a recent commentary in the June 2013 issue of Pain Medicine News by the new president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. In the fairness of disclosure, I must confess that Dr. Lynn R. Webster MD is one my most favorite physicians. I have had the...
