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Reasons Why Vit D Helps Chronic Pain Coming Clearer – Vit D Genes
A Fokl DNA gene polymorphism in the Vitamin D receptor would reduce its sensitivity to vitamin D. Vitamin D supports many metabolic processes beyond calcium and gene variations are even associated with certain cancers. In athletes, the FF Fokl genotype … Continue reading
Posted in Back Pain, Drugs, Fibromyalgia, pain mechanisms, Uncategorized
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Can Pharyngeal GERD Be Cured?
Reflux into throat has a something in throat “globus “feel, throat clearing and annoying cough. When ulcer “PPI”pills fail one author suggests injecting T5-6, 1 cm from spine, to influence sympathetic nerve trunks and gradually reset the nervous system – … Continue reading
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Vulvodynia or Pudental Neuralgia -Simple Repeated Injection Breakthrough Treatment
A simple perivulvar way to do pudental like blocks, if repeated, can lead to astounding improvement in pain in perineal areas – either vulvodynia or pudental neuralgia. I have achieved control in one case of either but don’t know yet … Continue reading
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Sweet Epidural Caudal Sugar-Water Injections Cut Back Pain Longterm
Re back pain and sciatica – Astoundingly, you can get 50% back pain reduction short term and 30% relief long term with repeated simple injection of D5W sugar water given caudally. Caudal injection has been dumbed down to a simple … Continue reading
Dry Eyes More Common In Certain Chronic Pains and Made Worse by Low Vitamin D – Replacement Helps
Prior I wrote about a Dry Eye- Mouth Syndrome (DEMS) that has some joint involvement. DEMS is associated with thyoid antibodies suggesting an autoimmune process (1). Now It was found more commonly in irritable bowel, chronic pelvic pain and irritable … Continue reading
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Complex Regional Pain (CRPS) Dorsal Foot and Ankle- Dramatic Treatment and Could This Work in Forearm?- And New RX for Tennis Elbow
It was recently found that CRPS of leg might be obviated with attention to Superficial Peroneal nerve in shin by pulse radiofrequency. This is exciting news. I have a CRPS arm helped temporarily by nerve block to superfical antebrachial nerve … Continue reading
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Low Vitamin C Linked to Chronic Pain
Nationwide survey found low vitamin C highly prevalent in population and increases risks of chronic pain.
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Simulating Ketamine Infusions with Repeated Deltoid Muscle Injections
Protocol from Anodyne Headache and Pain Care in Texas gave 0.3 mg – 0.4 mg/kg ketamine divided into 3 deltoid IM shots separated by 15 minutes for headache and neuropathic pain. A remarkably successful ketamine IV treatment for depression gave … Continue reading
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Shooting Trigeminal Neuralgia – Facial Epicrania Fugax – and a New Treatment
6-8 years ago a brief neuralgic pain in the scalp that radiated to front or back of head was described. I wrote about it here: http://painmuse.org/?p=1516 Now a facially originated version has been defined and sounds very much like trigeminal … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs, neuropathic, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Uncategorized
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Hand Sanitizer Proves Cheap Ultrasound Gel
Regular ultrasound gel bottle may not be sterile and individual packets are costly so hand sanitizer was tried with success.
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I Stand Corrected- CT Do Help Problems – Alzheimer’s and Asthma Treatment -and Radiation Could be Good
Some specialists will leave patients in abject pain with the implication that the imaging they have ordered will in some way help their pain. It does not. However, an Alzheimer victim was subjected to 4 head CT and has made … Continue reading
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TMJ – Upper Joint Injection Technique
I had always thought injecting the TMJ laterally in upward direction would be best. A posterior approach was found more effective in the swine equivalent.
Post Lobectomy Persistent Chest Pains Prevented by Kinesiology Taping(KT)
Presently there is a battle in attempt to find measures to prevent persistent post-operative pain. Persistent pains after chest surgery can approach up to 50%. Post-operative, Kinesiology Taping (KT) was done over three areas: at the chest access site pain … Continue reading
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New Acute Headache – ? Cause
Eliminating chronic headaches and “cephalic illnesses” (stroke, seizures, cranial lesions, sinusitis, or central nervous system infections” left a group with new moderate- severe headaches that attended emergency. These people could have comorbid serious health issues such as heart failure, worsening … Continue reading
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Foot Morton’s Neuroma – New Treatment – Capsaicin Injection
Mortons’s Neuroma can cause severe foot pains often between the bases of the 3rd-4th toes. Cortisone injection may lead to atrophy of tissues and more rubbing of area as result so options are needed. Injection 0.5 mls of 0.1% Capsaicin … Continue reading
Gabapentin Fails to Help Back Pain With or Without Sciatica
Not all that long ago, Canadian Indian Affairs mandated that native pain sufferers had to try gabapentin/cymbalta like drugs first before certain opioids. I wrote about how poorly cymbalta worked: http://painmuse.org/?p=2179 Now even gabapentin failed to help back pain with … Continue reading
Chronic Severe Abdominal Pain is a Skin Nerve Pain
Lidocaine freezing, administered rectally, can eliminate bowel pains temporarily. Having done that in a case of severe chronic abdominal pains, I found very tender nerve tracts from back to lower abdomen and pelvis on right side, explaining most of the … Continue reading
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Does Etanercept Nerve Irritation Limit Use?
Many years ago I was injecting enbrel paraspinously near the nerve exit of sciatica nerve location. I was using a full 25 mg and found it had minimal effects. I wrote E. Tobinick at times and wondered if it was … Continue reading
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Pregnancy Gone Badly – needs Quick Diagnosis and Treatment
Came across this while searching pain. It is so deadly, I had to write it up. Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) is a rarely occurring condition leading to death in up to to 1/3 of cases. It can be confused with … Continue reading
Finger Bruising – Recurrent Spontaneous
There is a subgroup of people who will spontaneously develop bruising in the palm side fingertip of a finger. It is a known syndrome – so don’t think you are crazy..
Sleep Bruxism Temporarily responds to repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
Stimulating the primary motor cortex representation of masseter muscle “bilaterally for 20 min per side each day for 5 consecutive days” significantly reduced bruxism and opened up a new avenue of treatment.
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Scar Pains – More Injections to Cure Than Think
I was taught that a simple intradermal injection of local could eliminate scar pains. Now it is becoming clearer that repeated injections are often needed and the addition of cortisone is often necessary for results.
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Center Disease Control 2016 Recommendations For Using Opioids
CDC 2016 has put out a checklist for opioid use. It does not emphasize much on use of injection, manual medicine and other alternative techniques but does give some guidelines.
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Missed Back Pains Especially in Elderly – Kissing Spinous Processes – Baastrup’s Disease
Touching spinous processes in back can elicit pain, and may coexist with other problems so be easily missed. Cortisone injection is the first line treatment. I might have seen one lately that was puzzling that it was so localized – … Continue reading
Chronic Prostatitis – Are Gut Germs Involved?
People with Chronic prostatitis have much less diversity of gut flora and particularly lack Prevotella – enough so, researchers think it is a biological marker.
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