If you’ve ever experienced abdominal cramping due to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease or any other problems with the intestines, you know that they can be truly incapacitating. How do I know? I was hit yet again this week.
It had been a while since I had such bad cramping. While I  used to usually experience pain of about 7 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst ever, I think this week’s was 9, if not 10. And it just started out of the blue.
But when do you need to see …read more

Living with chronic pain can be a nightmare for seniors, especially if they’re alone. Those who have little help may not get the right treatment they need either because they can’t get to the doctor or they can’t get their doctor to listen to them.
As the baby boomers are aging, this could become even more of an issue so the problem of pain in seniors needs to be addressed.
Here at the 10 common reasons why seniors have pain:

Falls/trauma – falling from lack of balance or weakness can end up into a nightmare of pain. Safety proofing the environment is …read more

A study published in the March issue of the Archives of Surgery, shows that people who have accidents that result in severe injury can still have pain a year later.
The study, which involved over 3000 patients, found that almost 63% of the patients complained of pain related to their injury 12 months after the trauma. Although the subjects were aged between 18 and 84 years old, prolonged pain was most often reported in subjects who were between age 35 and 44 years of age and least commonly reported in those between 75 to 84 years of age.
A little over 44% …read more

 
 
I haven’t been diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), but I do know what it feels like to have that horrible cramping and pain that goes along with it. For a while, my gastroenterologist though I may have celiac disease. The cramping and pain can be incapacitating and it can have a strong impact on the things you do and how you live your life.
A new study, from the University of California has found that women with IBS “can’t effectively switch off a pain modulation mechanism in the brain, which makes them more sensitive to abdominal pain.” You can read …read more