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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The worlds “ovarian cancer” can be frightening. Unfortunately, it’s often one of those cancers that is usually detected only when it has progressed so far that the prognosis is less than one would hope for.
Sure, we read of the signs and symptoms, but they’re so vague that they can be easily brushed off as something else. After all, what woman hasn’t experienced indigestion, bloating, changes in menstrual periods, and even pelvic pain?
While browsing the Internet for interesting stories to bring you, I found this one over at bluedothealth.com: Stage 2 Ovarian Cancer – How Leg Pain Saved My Life.
I think …read more

It may seem like nothing to worry about, restless legs syndrome, but for those people who do have RLS, it can be very uncomfortable, and can cause chronic pain. RLS can interrupt your sleep and cause pain. A new study that examined the effect of pramipexole (Mirapexin/Sifrol) has found that the medication can significantly reduce pain from RLS in some patients. The findings were presented at the conference SLEEP, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies being held this week in Baltimore, MD:
According to a press release issued by the conference organizers, the pain relieve is …read more

People who experience chronic pain most often want to avoid using any type of medication to manage it or eliminate it completely. Also, for some injuries, medication isn’t effective.
For some back injuries, the chronic pain may be lasting for a while before surgery is proposed, because surgery is a last-ditch effort to control the pain. This means, by the time your doctor has suggested and arranged the surgery, you may have undergone months (or years) of different “conventional” treatments before the surgery actually happens.
Unfortunately, although spinal surgery does have a good success rate, it doesn’t work for everyone. Or it …read more