As if there weren’t enough evidence that painkillers are bad for us, an article in the August issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology attributes about one-third of hospitalizations and deaths related to gastrointestinal bleed to the use of aspirin and NSAIDs (like ibuprofen and…
Using PET scans, researchers have studied how placebos can induce pain relief. The study, which will be released in tomorrow’s issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, indicates that expecting pain relief triggers painkillers in the brain. Can You Think Pain Away?: Expecting Pain Relief Triggers…
The headline of this article from the Detroit News says it all: Chronic Pain is a Headache for Doctors, Patients: There are Many Treatments, and Some Even Work. The article explores pain medicine as a relatively new field and the holes in knowledge about what…
At my last appointment with my headache specialist, I told him I’d love to take him out for drinks so I could have a couple hours to learn more about headaches and his opinions. This will never actually happen, so I’m content squeeze what I…
An old friend recently reminded me that I’ve never really cared about what other people think about me or if something on me doesn’t look “right.” Chronic headaches diminished that part of my personality for a long time because I spent so much time judging…