Chronic pain

I would get out of bed, hunched over, barely able to stand up straight.

It was the only thing that brought me solace when all else failed.

The mere thought of having to make these decisions sent a surge of even greater anxiety through me.

I'm happy again. Happy because I'm not in pain.

Combining three basic longevity hacks, plus an improved diet, meant my body began flourishing.

Doctors I saw were quick to write my pain off as part of my condition.

I am five years free of medication and completely in remission.

Once my doctor saw the results he changed his tune incredibly quickly.

I just checked out of life completely. The withdrawals are unimaginable.

I never thought I'd see the day when we would deny people pain relief and they'd resort to suicide.

I had a terrible accident. Daily, I wished for the amputation of my legs.

Patients with legitimate medical needs are losing access to opioids while addiction and overdose rates continue to climb.

A pain doctor cautions against "a blanket no" on opioids for all patients: "The pendulum has swung too far."

"The pain was just beyond unbearable. The body gets to a pain threshold and then I started vomiting," Naomi Lewis, who was stung by the plant, said.

This 90-year-old, Edna May Giordano, works out every day. So, if you feel like giving up on a fitness goal, this grandma may be the inspiration you may need.

Until the CDC gets out of the business of telling doctors how to practice medicine, none of us can feel safe.

Victor Escobar will be the first Colombian suffering from incurable pain to die from euthanasia while not terminally ill.

The woman explained that after she gave her trainer a gift card to say thank you, his wife approached her at the gym and told her to find a new trainer.

The authorization offers pain sufferers a treatment option "that does not include opioid pain medications."

unpublished

Is chronic pain making everyday tasks difficult to do? If you're stuck at home, here's the best way to deal with it.

While CBD is completely legal in the UK and is available "over the counter," it is odd that NICE (which has approved Epidiolex) doesn't even mention CBD. But there is certainly a need.

A federal guideline on removing patients from their opioid prescriptions was recently tempered, but not before physicians and hospital networks began aggressively removing people from their medication or sending them away entirely.

The DEA proposed reducing the manufacturing of prescription opioids for the fourth year in a row, but chronic pain patients are begging the agency to reconsider.

Scientists find fruit flies develop "hypersensitivity" after injury in a similar way to humans.

The U.K.'s NHS has published a list of medical conditions that prevent people from performing daily tasks.

Alexa Juckiewicz-Caspell had to learn how to speak and breathe again after she developed Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

Cannabis might reduce pain but not by a lot, and not by much more than a placebo.

It would be one thing if opioid-based pain pills simply did nothing for people with chronic pain—but they can be addictive.

A research overlap with physics suggests that chronic pain may be a consciousness disorder, rather than a physical one.