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I have been mad at the Advil people for a long time. Just a "feeling" mind you - that something was wrong with them. I almost hate to be vindicated but check out this link
Advil makes it worse - not better

I am currently being tested for temporal arteritis, and cranial arterites. They are very difficult to identify but it seems my condition has moved in this direction.

tags: migraine pain arteritis

New MRI studies (what else did you expect?) show that people with major depressive disorder "appear to react more strongly when anticipating pain." And their pain sensitivity circuitry seems to be functioning differently than other folks'.

“Chronic pain and depression are common and often overlapping syndromes,” ... Recurring or chronic pain occurs in more than 75 percent of patients with depression, and between 30 percent and 60 percent of patients with chronic pain report symptoms of depression.“Understanding the neurobiological basis of this relationship is important because the presence of comorbid pain contributes significantly to poorer outcomes and increased cost of treatment in major depressive disorder.”

That's why we depressives always say things probably aren't going to be as bad as you think they'll be ... they'll probably be worse... or is it the other way around? Things are never as bad as we imagine they'll be? Why it's so hard to keep a major depressive person down, they've already suffered more anticipating in advance that when the worst life can deal them happens, it seems somewhat anticlimactic...and so on and so on, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Oh yeah, and Obama got elected in the USA. Turns out there was a pony after all, if you're familiar with the joke.

tags: pain research depression

"LSD Cured My Headaches" is the rather lurid headline for the article - it relates the story of a person who suffers from Cluster Headaches. Story says these are different from migraines and often called Suicide Headaches. Apparently "Flash" discovered he could self medicate with LSD or psilocybin mushrooms (found in cow pastures).

tags: pain health headaches lsd psilocybin

Today we opened three cereal boxes (Kashi Cinnamon Harvest ["beautifully delicious organic whole wheat biscuits, baked with cinnamon and natural sweetness"], Kashi Good Friends ["trio of flakes, twigs & granola"], and Uncle Sam ["toasted whole-wheat flakes & flaxseed"] into one big container and mixed them together with a big wooden spoon.

Next we opened the half gallon of soy milk and started pouring it into the big container of cereal. After a fairly short while, as whiles are measured, the thought occurred that this was not the single portion of cereal that was originally intended as a short term goal or task.

tags: pain brain reality neuro dinky pinky

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/63858/

Polemic in reference to Michael Medved's "Inconvenient Truths" regarding slavery and why the US brand of slavery was only following a rich Greco-Roman civilization/cultural heritage. Only thing missing was Barbara Bush's comment about Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston football stadium indicating that most of them were underprivileged, so this was working out well for them. Although the argument that African slaves benefited from their exposure to Western civilization was put forth by Medved....

tags: pain politics culture slavery apologists nonapologists idiots michaelmedved torture stupidty capitalism neurologicalpain