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Treating Pain When It Becomes a Disease in Its Own Right
Navigating the path to chronic pain control is tricky. For the patient and the doctor, the challenge is that there is no single drug or therapy. A combination of approaches, often coordinated by a team of pain experts, is best. Chronic pain can begin with an injury or a problem such as a bulging disk in the spine. It can be associated with complex syndromes such as fibromyalgia. Or you may experience it as headaches, back pain, joint pain, nerve pain, or a myriad of other localized symptoms. Read more...
Quick Guide
- Headache Quiz
- Back Pain Quiz
- Chronic Pain Is a Disease
- Why Pain Diaries Work
- Expert Advice on Getting Health Insurance and Affordable Care for Chronic Pain
- Choosing a Back Specialist
- Make a Good Decision About Back Surgery
- What's Happening During a Migraine
- Using Over-the-Counter Drugs Safely
- I Faced and Fought Fibro
- Why Patients Don't Talk About Cancer Pain
- What You Should Know About Painkiller Addiction
- Meditation Can Release and Relieve Pain
- 5 Mistakes Pain Patients Make
- Keeping Your Marriage Healthy When You're in Pain
- How People in Pain Can Revive Their Sex Lives
Chronic Pain: Real People, Real Stories
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Pain Tests, Doctors, and Attitudes
- Chronic Pain Is a Disease That Needs Special Treatment
- How Do You Know When Pain Has Become Chronic?
- Who Is at Risk for Chronic Pain
- How Doctors Diagnose Chronic Pain: Common Exams and Tests
- How to Describe Your Pain to Doctors
- How to Get Your Doctor to Take Your Pain Seriously
- Pain Expert B. Eliot Cole, MD, Explains Why Patients Have to Fight for Good Care
- How Specialists Can Help You Tackle Your Chronic Pain
- Why It's Important to Keep a Pain Diary
- What to Keep in Your Pain Diary
- Expert Jennifer Jaff Explains the Tricks to Getting Health Insurance and Affordable Care for Chronic Pain
Low Back Pain
Headaches and Migraines
Arthritis
Living With Fibromyalgia
Cancer Pain
- Cancer Pain Expert Eduardo Bruera Explains Why Patients Need to Be Honest About Their Pain
- The Dangers of Not Treating Cancer Pain
- 7 Reasons Cancer Patients Don't Talk About Pain, and Why They Should
- How Two Patients Found Relief From Cancer Pain
- Take Control of Your Cancer Pain
- Tips for Using Narcotics for Cancer Pain: Stay Alert for Side Effects or Addiction
- How Fentanyl Relieves Cancer Pain
Drugs: Relief and Addiction
- A Guide to Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
- Important Facts About Non-Narcotic Pain Drugs
- Tips for Managing the Side Effects of Narcotic Painkillers
- Painkiller Addiction: A Smaller Risk Than You May Think
- How to Decrease Your Chance of Becoming Addicted to Narcotic Painkillers
- How Fear of Narcotic Abuse Makes It Hard for Pain Patients to Get the Medicine They Need
- When Your Doctor Won't Prescribe Narcotics: Tips for Getting the Pain Relief You Need
- How Tricyclic Antidepressants Can Help Relieve Chronic Pain
- Tamper-Resistant Narcotics Are Good News for Pain Patients
- Antidepressants for Pain and Depression: One Patient Shares Her Struggles and Success
- Breakthrough Pain: When the Usual Drugs Stop Working
- Stopping Breakthrough Pain With Fast-Acting Drugs
- What to Do When Pain Medication Is Dulling Your Sex Life
- The Best Websites About Using Drugs to Treat Chronic Pain
Alternative Pain Therapies
Coping With Chronic Pain
- 5 Mistakes Pain Patients Make
- When You're in Pain, You Have a Right to Do Less
- Strategies for Coping With Chronic Pain
- Strategies for Coping With Depression and Chronic Pain
- 4 Ways to Keep Chronic Pain From Straining Your Friendships
- How to Keep Your Marriage Healthy When One of You Is in Pain
- How People in Pain Can Revive Their Sex Lives
- Expert Jennifer Jaff Explains How to Manage Chronic Pain in the Workplace
- Jennifer P. Schneider, MD, Pain Management Expert, Shares Strategies for Moving Past Pain
- The Pain Patient’s Bill of Rights
