Please join us Sunday, 1/27 at 4pm PST for our monthly gathering. I’ll start us off with a post about the negative effects of under-treated chronic pain, and we’ll have our usual open thread. All are welcome who follow our overarching guideline: Be Kind.
Today I have a couple of links to share. The first has to do with chronic pain — and your chance to give some input:
http://nationalpainreport.com/hhs-pain-task-force-looking-for-public-comment-8838335.html
The recommendations of The Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force are creating quite a bit of conversation among pain physicians and advocates.
The recommendations, which are still in draft form, are open to public comments and the U.S. Health and Human Service is anxious for people to read the recommendations and then to comment.
Here is the draft report. (click here).
...The Task Force was established to propose updates to best practices and issue recommendations that address gaps or inconsistencies for managing chronic and acute pain.
...Today, according to the task force, chronic pain affects an estimated 50 million U.S. adults, and as many as 19.6 million of those adults experience high-impact chronic pain that interferes with daily life or work activities.
And please don’t forget that Social Security is asking for input as they are reviewing how they look at of pain when making a determination of disability. The deadline is Feb. 15th:
www.federalregister.gov/…
We are soliciting public input to ensure that the manner in which we consider pain in adult and child disability claims under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act(Act) remains aligned with contemporary medicine and health care delivery practices.
This next is a new website to me, of possible interest to anyone who has ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome):
https://www.s4me.info/
where Science and the ME/CFS community meet
And this one is something to think about if you get any/all of your prescriptions by mail:
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/01/mail-order-medications-dont-always-stand-up-to-outside-temperatures.html
By Kaiser Health News
Take a look at your prescription bottles. Most say “Store at room temperature” or “Keep refrigerated.”
But what happens when drugs are delivered by mail? Were those instructions followed as the medicine wended its way from the pharmacy to your doorstep?
.. Standard, room-temperature medications (like most drugs for blood pressure or cholesterol, which make up the vast majority of prescriptions shipped) are typically sent in bubble mailers without any temperature monitors.
.. Stephen Eckel, a pharmacy professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said those practices can lead to some drugs being damaged.
Have you found any good articles or links lately?
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