Zyp Czyk

Living with the Chronic Pain of EDS & Fibromyalgia
Blogging current research and relevant articles
***Pain Awareness == Suicide Prevention***

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My cabin home burned down -
Massive wildfires burning to west, south, east, & north of SF Bay Area.
More dry lightning tonight expected to ignite even more https://t.co/wDIw60Ld0t

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"Do No Harm" Means Providing Proper Pain Treatment -
physicians have a duty to the individual; policymakers have a duty to society. ...harm from drug diversion should weigh little when clinicians decide how to treat individual patients. https://t.co/Jd4D05ntMo

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Doctors and pain patients: Conflict and collaboration -
our current medical system and its methods makes doctors and patients adversaries.
Patients want the pain relief opioids provide and doctors want to avoid prescribing them https://t.co/reV5zOCsJV

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Forced Tapering of Opioids Ethically Impermissible -
finally an article pointing out the elephant in the room:
there are also HARMS from deprescribing #opioids https://t.co/o7s7VTQ6Uq

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The social threats of COVID for pain pateints -
potential for social and systemic changes due to COVID-19 to precipitate, maintain, and exacerbate pain https://t.co/AwVTwst8Z4

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Impact of Melatonin on Skeletal Muscle and Exercise -
"recent evidence of dietary melatonin efficacy in age-related skeletal muscle disorders...
emerging impact of melatonin on physical activity." https://t.co/svlv28guCg

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Pharmacies Sued for Discrimination Against Pain Patients -
"It is a violation for any person with a disability to be denied service by a place of public accommodation"
via @PainNewsNetwork https://t.co/sEB0ho4sMH

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Exercise Hyped as Universal Solution to Chronic Pain -
"very important point about exercise, and one that’s rarely mentioned, is how little exercise actually reduces pain and disability"
via @HealthSkills https://t.co/QqvHSW2CQS

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DOJ Tricks Used in Prescribing Prosecution -
"Here are ten tricks used by the DOJ to convict physicians and other healthcare professionals for charges of healthcare fraud and unlawful prescribing"
via HealthcareDef https://t.co/FdXeov8uUd

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Considering the potential for an increase in chronic pain after the COVID-19 pandemic: -
2 of the 4 authors specialize in various forms of mental illness: Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy. https://t.co/TW5DojBg0K

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Advice for Newcomers to Diagnosis of EDS -
The relief of finally knowing what's caused you so much grief for so much of your life will quickly fade as the reality of dealing with an incurable degenerative illness sinks in.
#Ehlers-Danlos https://t.co/dJzo5mRV9m

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Pain Warriors: ‘A Civil Rights Movement for Our Time’ -
"chronic pain patients and their doctors have been marginalized and persecuted in the name of fighting opioid addiction."
via @PainNewsNetwork https://t.co/6m9oxdyS1G

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Common colds train immune system to recognize COVID -
"This existing immune system "memory" may explain why some people have milder COVID-19 infections."
via LiveScience https://t.co/bFVuDjcsz3

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Lower Back Pain Can Improve After Hip Replacement -
"82% [of those wtih had their back pain resolve after hip replacement at a minimum of one year follow-up." https://t.co/IJpEELsM3X

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"Prolonged pain of musculoskeletal origin can cause changes in autonomic outflow and thereby cardiovascular system." https://t.co/FmulTnA0z9

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The HPA – Immune Axis in the Brain https://t.co/MhwlpCepJs

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COVID worsens shortage of hospital opioids -
"deficiencies in the supply of injectable opioids had long been recognized,... drugmakers, hospitals, regulators, and lawmakers failed to fix the problem and were caught unprepared" https://t.co/cmJONoRNlA

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Dogs can identify COVID in humans as well as biologic testing - Scent dog identification of samples from COVID-19 patients – a pilot study https://t.co/dW91aFoBz5