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Pain Inhibiting Circuits – Neuropathic Pain – Good Gone Bad?
Your body has a set of circuits to shut off pain – your endophin circuits, except in the spinal cord the endophins are called “enkaphalins” and are chemically built a bit different. The pain inhibiting spinal circuits i.e. the “descending … Continue reading
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On Tamoxifen? Beware of Some Anti-depressants – but only in 7%
Certain anti-depressants are used in chronic pain because of their painkiller effects. Women with prior Ca. of Breast can end up on a drug called tamoxifen to help prevent recurrences. Tamoxifen has to be convered in the body by a … Continue reading
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Advanced Disc Degeneration Still Very Painful
Article states “there has been a belief that DD initially causes pain because of the penetration of fluid nuclear material through annular fissures, and that pain eventually resolves as the nucleus becomes fibrotic and can no longer penetrate the fissures”. … Continue reading
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Diabetic Have More Muscle Pains
Diabetics are 1.6 times more likely to have chronic musculoskeletal complaints yet in non-diabetics, a high random glucose is associated with less complaints.
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Multiple Allergies, Hives and Abdominal Pain – Think Mastocytosis
I have seen cases of severe Irritable Bowel, combined with allergies and hives, that require multiple medications to control and are disabled from symptoms. These cases are discarded by gastroenterologists yet might represent a systemic disease called Mastocytosis.
Posted in Abdominal pain, mast cell disease, skin
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Trigeminal Neuralgia
Listened to talk by Dr. Anthony Kaufman.He does probably the largest amount of Trigeminal nerve microvascular decompressions in Canada (~50/year) and helps run the Winnipeg Centre for Gamma Knife Surgery. He has a web site with detailed descriptions here Here … Continue reading
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When to Use Opioids in Chronic Headaches
Afraid the “College” will get on your back for giving opioids to someone with chronic headaches? Can’t get your doctor to listen that you have no quality of life with your headaches? Well here are some guidelines (Not rules – … Continue reading
? Obturator Neuralgia Needing Help
(email kept anonymous) I have had 4 inguinal hernia surgerys an nerves where cut I have chronic pain, all day long . I have burning sharp tender pain where I was cut in my iner thigh. My right testicle is … Continue reading
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Chiari-Syringomyelia Resources
This is a disorder with brain outlet crowding and cysts in the spinal cord. Having this condition means that you likely will be treated very poorly by the medical community because imaging is poor and people don’t want to believe … Continue reading
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Calcific Tendonitis Shoulder – Puncture as Good as Puncture/Aspiration
Calcification seen in the Supraspinatus tendon with tendonitis is by tradition treated by puncture and aspiration of the calcific deposits. I never met anyone who did it. Now, it appears just puncturing the deposit and steroid injection into the deposit … Continue reading
Migraines More Common in Celiac Disease (Which Could Still Have Normal Biopsy)
5.5 % of children with migraine were found to have elevated tTGA antibodies. They were considered Potential Celiac Disease [CD] despite normal duodenal biopsies. It is suggested “These patients might develop villous atrophy on repeated biopsies performed 1–4 years later … Continue reading
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Would Basal Body Temperature Manipulation Help Fibromyaglia(FM)?
Subjects with Fibromyalgia have lower basal body temperatures even though “controls and patients were matched for physical activity level” in one study. Lower free T3 levels, found in some FM subjects in the study, affected pressure pain threshold (p = … Continue reading
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Post-Stretococcus Reactive Arthritis – Poorly Diagnosed Treatable Chronic Pain
I have become aware of two cases of chronic pain following a Stretococcal infection. This could be a flavour of an Ankylosing Spondylitis with sacroiliits being a prime factor. As a matter of fact in those patients with persistently elevated … Continue reading
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Regina Fibromyaglia Group
Monthly Support Meetings at: Linda’s Sugar & Nails Rosemont Shopping Centre 5010 – 4th Ave., Regina First Thursday every month 7:30 PM contact # – 522-8686
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Got Crohn’s? – May Have Spine Arthritis Too
Recent MRI study of crohn’s colitis patients found 17/44 cases had evidence to sacroiliitis and 11 of these had back pain. HLA B27 is seen in 10% of the population. If present in any of the crohn’s patients (were in … Continue reading
Posted in Abdominal pain, Back Pain, Rheumatic
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Fibromyalgia (FM) Tragic Misdiagnosis – Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 and Cervical Spinal Stenosis or Myelopathy – New Treatments as Result
Since they have found the gene for Myotonic Dystrophy, they have found a subgroup not having that gene but having another gene deficit instead that is associated with milder disease. Randomly selecting Fibromyalgia cases found 2/63 cases though none of … Continue reading
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Nerve Pain? – 21st Century Gene Therapy
Since the early 2000’s experiments gene therapy experiments have been done on rodents using a non-replicating (Not growing) version of Herpesvirus (cold sore virus). The virus’s genetic machinery has been altered so it makes ingredients for enkephalins (spine cord morphine-like … Continue reading
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Ounce of Prevention is a Pound of Cure For Neuropathic Pain
Chronic administration of minocycline (a tetracycline antibiotic) started 7 days prior to nerve injury prevented neuropathic pain in the animal model – This offers exciting possibilities for preventing post surgical pain conditions.
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New Arthritis Pain Option – Botox It
For some years, they were finding Botox into ankle, shoulder and hip joints was giving pain relief. Now injecting Botox 25 u into a thumb Metacarpal-phalangeal and 50 – 100 units into cervical facet joints gives a similar result.
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Irritable Bowel – Possible Missed Protozoan Disease With Treatment
It has been known for some time that bacterial overgrowth is a common cause/aggravation of irritable bowel. Now further concern Blastocystis Hominis and Dientamoeba fragilis infections are not being reported because labs are restricting their search for Amoebiasis and Giardiasis … Continue reading
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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PR) – What can Help?
Prednisone dosage for the PR is a major concern. Initial dosages can be 20 mg daily, decreased 50% at 21 weeks. The accumulative dose is dangerous for osteoporosis, weight gain, hypertension and heart disease. Methotrexate at 7.5 mg weekly failed … Continue reading
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Possible Cure for Parkinson and Central Pains – Gamma Knife the Thalamus
Gamma knife (GK) thalamotomy was used in cases of pain with Parkinson disease and other central pains.”A clinical success rate of approximately 80% with negligible complications” was achieved.
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Got a Sinus Infection? Try a Migraine Triptan.
Cases with “sinus headaches” but negative workup were found to respond to tripans used for migraines 82% of time. 31% cases didn’t by into idea migraine and refused to be part of the study from the start – maybe, however, … Continue reading
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Bacterial Overgrowth causing Chronic Pancreatitis and Rosacea – New treatment? And, for elderly, a quick way to get rid of lactose intolerance
Chronic pancreatitis is a disease associated with recurrent abdominal pains, and malabsorption with possible steatorhea (fatty looking stools), bloating, intermittent diarrhea. A recent study found Small Intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in 14/15 cases and suggested treatment would help those symptoms. … Continue reading
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Hamstring Syndrome of Tethered Sciatic Nerve – Newer Entity With Surgical Treatment
This syndrome comprises of pain in the gluteal region radiating down thigh to the posterior knee popliteal fossa. It is associated with hamstring weakness. A series of 43 cases were found in athletes and surgically rectified. This resulted in a … Continue reading
Posted in Leg Pains, piriformis, radiculitis
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