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Help My Hurt

September 1st, 2008

10 reasons you should read Help My Hurt

Someone asked me an interesting question the other day. When she found out that beside my regular freelancing, I write for a few blogs. She didn’t ask me why I wrote the blogs - a question many people ask - but why she should read my blogs? So, after thinking about it, here are the […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments

August 2nd, 2008

Can food help fight pain?

People sometimes say that they eat to help them feel better. Of course, they usually mean this to be feeling better emotionally or psychologically, but can food help you feel better physically too?

According to this article, Healing Meals: Foods That May Fight Pain, yes, certain foods can help people who are living with chronic […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 1 comment

August 1st, 2008

Guest post from Grounded Fitness: Susan Watiker

Susan Watiker, one of the bloggers for b5media’s newest health and wellness blog, Grounded Fitness, agreed to write a guest post for us.

There are a couple of really good reasons I decided to get into yoga, and chronic lower and upper back pain were right at the top of the list.
Let’s start with issues of […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 1 comment

July 28th, 2008

Natural remedies for women - online book (free)

Thanks to a Yahoo group called Chronic Pain Association, I learned about a site where you can read - for free - some natural health books. I had a look and found this one: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Women.
I didn’t go through it completely, but I did see in the chapters that […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 1 comment

July 25th, 2008

Living with and managing cancer pain

Pain doesn’t affect everyone with cancer, even in the dying phase, but it does affect many. The pain can be from the primary cancer itself or from areas to where the cancer has spread, like the bones.
Cancer pain is a different type of pain to manage from other sorts of chronic pain. In some cases, […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2008

You’ve likely seen this headline: Fentanyl Killing People!!

Ok, let’s take a look at what’s really happening. Just today, I’ve read the following headlines:

US fentanyl deaths topped 1,000 over 2 years
Fentanyl deaths topped 1,000 over two years
Fentanyl deaths topped 1,000 over 2 yearsin US
Fentanyl deaths in the United States topped 1,000 over 2 years

Seems clear enough, right? Over 1000 people died in the […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2008

Camera in pill diagnoses teen’s Crohn’s disease

While getting a diagnosis of a disease like Crohn’s disease isn’t what most people want, when you’ve been sick or affected by chronic pain, severe pain, getting such a diagnosis is often a relief.
An 18-year-old in the United Kingdom had been experiencing severe abdominal pain for five years before she was finally diagnosed with Crohn’s […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 2 comments

July 23rd, 2008

Broken hearts do lead to chronic pain

The pain of a broken heart is more than missing someone who you loved - it can result in actual physical chronic pain.
According to the article, How emotional pain can really hurt, “new brain scanning technologies are revealing that the part of the
brain that processes physical pain also deals with emotional pain.”
Apparently, chronic pain is […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments

July 21st, 2008

7 headache myths

Despite headaches being one of the most common types of chronic pain, there are many myths and many questions surrounding them.
This article, from the Daily News in the UK, does a good job of explaining the 7 most common myths: How to take the pain out of dealing with your headaches.

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By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments

July 19th, 2008

How you feel pain

Have  you ever wondered how exactly it is that you feel pain after you’ve banged your elbow - what the process is? Whether it’s acute pain from breaking your ankle or living with chronic pain, the process seems to be mysterious.
The MayoClinic.com has this article and a video to help you understand: How you feel […]

By Marijke Durning, RN -- 0 comments