JUDICIAL REVIEW AND E PETITION FOR COPROXAMOL

JUDICIAL REVIEW AND E PETITION FOR COPROXAMOL
by Jeanne Hambleton © 2008
NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate
The coproxamol debate has apparently been ‘pushed under the carpet’ and seems to have lost its momentum with GPs disgruntled but still wanting to prescribe the 50-year-old safe painkiller. Meanwhile the Government and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency dig [...]

UK PETROL PRICES – DO THIS TO LOWER THEM

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2008
International Advocate – NFA Leader Against Pain
While petrol demonstrations and strikes against the never ending increases in petrol and diesel costs seemed like a good idea at the time, inevitably someone suffers. Before a proposed fuel blockade there is always a rush by ‘Joe Public’ to buy petrol and this must [...]

Physicians focus on stopping pain epidemic

Contact: Amy Jenkins
amy@jenkinspr.com
312-836-0613
American Academy of Pain Medicine
ORLANDO – The public health problem that needs to be addressed next is the epidemic of pain, according to pain medicine physicians who have come together to discuss the latest in pain research and treatment at the 24th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), [...]

THE FIRST UK FIBROMYALGIA CD TO RAISE FUNDS FOR RESEARCH

It is a first! A new single CD called Fibro What? is being launched next month to raise funds for research in the hope it may lead to a cure for the invisible disability, fibromyalgia.
The new upbeat tune is written and sung by comedy songwriter Dom Collins, who has a dear friend with fibromyalgia. [...]

IMPORTANT NEW NEWS ABOUT THE FIBROMYALGIA CONFERENCE

Hi everyone ~ I wanted to update everyone on what is going on at the Fibromyalgia Conference. If you don’t have information on this conference, here it is. It is going to be an awesome conference. So much information from Doctors / Demonstrators. We are very excited about this!!
We have been notified that the [...]

A LETTER TO ‘NORMALS’

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2008
NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate
How many times do you feel guilty when you watch your family do jobs which you used to do without thinking about it? What is your reaction to that barbed comment, “No, you sit still. You said you don’t feel well!”
Yes me too – I want so [...]

A THOUGHT PIECE

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2008
NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate
Grab a cup of coffee, sit comfortably and let us begin. The papers here in the UK this weekend have been full of justice being handed out contrary to British law by groups of Muslim elders sitting judgment on those with the same religious beliefs, in a redundant [...]

Disability and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia.

Verbunt JA, Pernot DH, Smeets RJ.
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND: Patients with fibromyalgia often feel disabled in the performance of daily activities. Psychological factors seem to play a pronounced disabling role in fibromyalgia. The objectives of the study are: Firstly, to investigate contributing factors for disability in fibromyalgia. Secondly, to study psychological distress in patients with fibromyalgia as [...]

SHIRLEY GOODNEST AND MARCY

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2008
NFA Leader Against Pain – International Advocate
This little story was sent to me by a fibromite who described the tale as charming. I do agree with her. In a world full or woes and wars, this is story of pure innocence that is quite heartening. Enjoy.
A mom was concerned about [...]

Chronic pain harms the brain

CHICAGO — People with unrelenting pain don’t only suffer from the non-stop sensation of throbbing pain. They also have trouble sleeping, are often depressed, anxious and even have difficulty making simple decisions.
In a new study, investigators at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have identified a clue that may explain how suffering long-term pain [...]