• Patient rights explained by five experts
- How to communicate your pain to your doctor
- Pain assessment should be a thorough team effort
- When to see a pain specialist
- Physician feedback on problems with prescribing opioids
-Q&A with Don Uslan, M.A., M.B.A., L.M.H.C., including what to do if your doctor has given up and issues of abandonment
• Sleep disturbances might be identified by a short questionnaire
- New study on upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS)
- Nonrestorative sleep and restlessness
• Researchers nationwide meet to discuss their studies
- How can Mestinon (pyridostigmine) help you?
- How epinephrine and ATCH stress hormones affect symptoms
- The role of mast cells in the thalmus
• Decreased capillary flow in the muscles
• Pelvic pain, endometriosis, and relationship to elevated cytokines
• Dietary news
-Celiac disease, food allergies, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Does fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) meet the definition of a disease?
- Relationship to neuropathic pain
- Loss of gray matter in brain found in chronic pain
- Glia cell activation, which produces cytokines, may cause vicious cycle
• Lyrica (pregabalin): FDA approved but not for FMS (at least not yet)
- Summary of FMS drug trial
- Learn how your doctor can prescribe Lyrica "off-label" for you
• Vulvodynia (vulvar pain, vulvar vestibulitis)
- Potential causes and triggers
- Getting the right diagnosis
- Novel treatment options and self-help
• Sleep studies: survey results from patient-members
• Q&A with Karl Henriksson M.D., Ph.D., and sleep expert Avram Gold, M.D.
• Member suggestions on finding a doctor to treat your pain

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