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Pain Management – what treatments do you take (or have taken) for pain?

Since the earliest days of Patient Talk we have always been interested in how our readers manage their pain.

Pain - what works best?

Pain – what works best?

With many of our readers having multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and diabetes in particular the whole area of pain management is an important part of our mission as a blog.

So when one of our readers asked us “What treatments do your readers take for pain?” we thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to find out.

So that is the purpose of the poll below.

But we would also like to take the discussion a little bit further. While we have looked generally at pain management in the past today we want to do something a bit different.

Once you have taken part in the poll (for which many thanks) it would be very grateful if you could tell us a bit more in the comments section below.  In particular could you rate the treatments in terms of your own pain outcomes.  A bit like this blog on TENS machines and pain.

Many thanks in advance and we are confident your comments will be of great help to others on their pain journey.

 

CindyJones1 We should be able to choose more than one. I do take medication but I also have a spinal cord stimulator, my trusty heating pad. PT exercises and therapeutic exercises given to me by my therapist. I had to get one due to my adhesive arachnoiditis, she has given me a lot of tools.
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patienttalk.org		 MancFlickChick Great tip – many thanks
MancFlickChick When my fingers felt like they were being stabbed by thousands of tiny knifes (this doesn’t happen with everyone) the only thing that did any good was to put them in cold water which worked instantly, much better than the incredibly strong pain killers the ER staff gave me which did nothing.
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Free webinar on multiple sclerosis and pain management

One of our readers has written to us saying “I wanted to let you know that on December 2 2015 at 1PM EST we are conducting another webinar for the MS community. The webinar will be hosted by Dr. Yael Wilnai who will discuss topics of pain management, genetics of Multiple Sclerosis and a review of the latest clinical trials. We will also have a guest speaker Ms. Yvonne Decelis who is affected by Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia and she will speak about her patient journey and how she uses nutrition and exercise to manage her conditions.

I would appreciate the opportunity to offer your members our webinar and am including an invitation and banner that provides more details. The registration link is www.genefo.com/webinarms.”


GeneFo Multiple sclerosis webinar

GeneFo Multiple sclerosis webinar

GeneFo Multiple sclerosis webinar

GeneFo Multiple sclerosis webinar

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“Numbing the Pain of Peripheral Neuropathy” – how to deal with nerve pain naturally

One of the themes of this blog is pain and pain management. I’m also very interested in natural and complementary ways of treating the symptoms of different medical conditions.

So I was very interested when I saw this infographic which looks at a few ways of treating Peripheral Neuropathy. Or nerve pain in the extremities of the body.

We have run a very successful discussion blog on neuropathic pain when we started PatientTalk.Org which look at the various ways our readers dealt with nerve pain. It is well worth a read with over 100 people telling their stories about neuropathy.

This infographic is interesting. While it highlights diabetes, lupus and chemotherapy as causes of Peripheral Neuropathy it also suggests that using natural treatments might work.

See what you think. Is it in your view correct? It would be great if you would share your experiences with us in the comments box below.

Thanks very much in advance.

Numbing the Pain of Peripheral Neuropathy

From Visually.

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How the brain responds to pain – check out this fascinating infographic

Over the years we have covered a lot of different aspects of pain and pain management. In particular for our readers with arthritis, multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia.

So to supplement this we have shared this rather interesting infographic which looks at how our brains to pain. So we hope you find it enlightening. If you do please consider sharing this page with friends and family.

Click to Launch the infographic How the Brain Responds to Pain from totalinjury.com

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Pain management – Is your pain worse today than it was one year ago?

Pain - is it getting worse?

Pain – is it getting worse?

As you may know by now one of the main objects of this blog is to help provide our readers with a forum which gives support for people who live on a day to day basis.

Of course there are many conditions which cause severe pain such , as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, migraines, POTS, fibromyalgia, cancer and ankylosing spondylitis. But today we are interested in focusing on pain management in general.

We would like to use today’s blog to ask our readers if you feel your pain is worse today than it was a year ago.

Sadly in my case it is much worse.

Also it would be great if you could share how you feel your pain management is working in the comments section below. In particular it would be great if you could tell us why your pain is getting better or worse over the last 12 months.

But before that we would invite you to take part in the poll below.