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I am an insomniac and my chronic pains are now making it so much worse. 🙁

Ugh. We can’t get through one without starting another? 🙁

Outstanding approach. Does anybody in the community have experience with neurostimulation? It’d be great to hear anything, as there are versions of this currently used. I use a primitive version on myself for acute pain, like a cut or sting. I bite or pinch the area around the injury, sending a seconary pain signal to the brain from the same area. It seems to confuse the brain and “cancels” out some of the pain. Needless to say, it stops once I stop the biting!

Outstanding approach. Does anybody in the community have experience with neurostimulation? It’d be great to hear anything, as there are versions of this currently used. I use a primitive version on myself for acute pain, like a cut or sting. I bite or pinch the area around the injury, sending a secondary pain signal to the brain from the same area. It seems to confuse the brain and “cancels” out some of the pain. Needless to say, it stops once I stop the biting!

How incredible would this be if this actually became a regular alternative to painkillers? Absolutely amazing!

Adderall DESTROYEDDDD my gums in just a few months on it in the past. It’s one of many side effects that your PCP will conveniently forget to mention when prescribing it. FANTASTIC article!

This is why this site is so helpful – I did not know this!

That is useful to people new to an arthritic condition. Very interesting about the use of Cymbalta in osteoarthritis – I did not know this.

This is helpful but I fear it may be an oversimplification. I have a background of being a clinical scientist and worked for many years in nuclear medicine and learned from the get-go that it was important to get an accurate history from the patient to work out what is going on. When I became ill with arthritis and talked to the rheumatologists for the first time as a patient I was taken aback when I reported how my arthritis switched on over about a week (ten days after volunteering for an experimental Pneumococcal vaccine). I was told I was wrong and had been suffering from arthritis for years as I was suffering from Osteo Arthritis! I am fed up with junior doctors telling me the history I and my wife (a midwife with years of experience) report is wrong. From my point of view, I have an Arthritis that flares up whenever my immunity is working overtime and clearly has other autoimmune aspects even if I don’t have an antibody signature consistent with classical Rheumatoid Arthritis. We are very familiar with Rheumatoid Arthritis – my father-in-law died from the treatments of it – and I am sure I don’t have simple Rheumatoid Arthritis but what I do have mimics it in a number of ways. I am sure there are many more than two types of arthritis.