(Yoinked from HuffPost)
www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-amon/chronic-pain-and-torture_b_473377.html

Chronic Pain and Torture
Joe Amon
Director of the health division at Human Rights Watch
February 23, 2010 01:29 PM

Human Rights Watch researchers have interviewed thousands of victims of torture. But it may come as a surprise for a lot of people that our ( Read more... )

For my diet restriction research study thingy, I had my fourth of six challenge appointments today.

The juice most definitely had glutamate in it today, as it tasted nasty & had an aftertaste that stuck on my tongue (umami).

Apparently, the doses are 3x3 meaning each week has 3 doses of the same type of juice. Therefore, last week must've been the ( Read more... )

Stress hormone 'a marker for ME'
Low levels of the stress hormone cortisol marks out children at higher risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome as adults, experts believe.

These children if exposed to trauma, particularly emotional maltreatment and sexual abuse, had a six-fold increased risk for CFS, evidence shows.

Cortisol regulates the body's ( Read more... )

Fibromyalgia patients show brain abnormalities

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - French researchers have shown that patients with fibromyalgia have abnormal blood flow in the brain, which may be related to the underlying cause of the condition.

"We found brain functional differences between patients with fibromyalgia and those who do not have the ( Read more... )

ugh... really which is worse ( Read more... )

"Currently, opiates are the most effective medications for managing most chronic pain states (Friedman OP 1990, Portenoy 1996). Their use is often condemned out of ignorance regarding their propensity to cause addiction, physical dependence and tolerance (Melzack 1990, Portenoy et al 1997, Wall 1997).

While physical dependence (defined as a ( Read more... )

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Free on the Water
Friday, July 18, 2008
By: Angela D. McClure

FMOnline vol. 8, no. 7
I was 21 when it all started: pain and stiffness, stomach upset and other ( Read more... )

"Few questions are as vexing to the chronic pain patient as the routine, oft-asked “How are you?” Words seem too small; the experience too big; the moment too fleeting to summon the correct response. The person in pain hungers to communicate, yearns for self-expression; yet his vocabulary seems to fail him; perhaps his separateness from others ( Read more... )

lost my job
me and 20 others were led to the slaughter
laid off by position
avi can suck my balls

but what else is new? isn't it always like that?
put a rug under me just long enough for me to forget its there
then YANK

have had some strange conversations in the last couple months
this guy told me he saw wedding bells over my head
    and that I was a ( Read more... )

Sunday: Brunch at Genie's with Jess, Matty and Maggie. Long wait for good food. Saved some of Sam's artwork from the dumpster.
Monday: chased a bastard squirrel around and around my car, making me late for work. Booched a chromatography column by adding the sand too early >:O
Tuesday: Fancy shareholder meeting with pastries, during which there was ( Read more... )