It’s the weekend, so that means a weekly round-up of the most popular posts. Here we are:

Topical NSAID As Effective As Tablets For Knee Pain
Numbing gel eases pain from mammograms
Pregnancy and migraines
The pain of pleurisy
Company’s calling: For Grace’s founder, Cynthia Toussaint speaks out
Legitimate patients with chronic pain vs drug seekers
Gastric bypass/kidney stone connection?
10 causes of chronic pain in seniors
Ticks that cause Lyme disease found in new regions across Canada
A blogger tells how leg pain signaled ovarian cancer

What do you think of those choices? Do any of them surprise you as being popular?
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News flash! Knee pain disturbs your sleep. Seriously!
That heavy gust of wind you just felt was my sigh. I sure wish the energy that went into some of these surveys and studies went into something more useful than telling us stuff we already know.
According to this press release, Survey Shows Knee and Lower Back Pain Contribute to Insomnia, Weight Gain, Money Loss and More, “The survey shows that knee and lower back pain pervade many aspects of respondents’ lives — and that’s only the beginning of the story. As a result of their pain, more than half of sufferers (55 …read more

This week, we hear from Sigrun Grabowski, an IT Analyst in Montpelier, VT. Her pain started in November of 2007, so it’s not classified as chronic pain yet, although it does look like it’s headed in that direction. This interview was done just before Christmas. Sigrun has agreed to doing follow-ups to see how her pain is progressing or improving as time goes on.
Can you tell me about when you first started experiencing the pain and what kind of pain it was?
My knee pain started fairly mildly just going up and down stairs about 6 weeks ago.  The pain was …read more