Since the point of the blog is to address pain in general, I try to cover as much as I can. Unfortunately though, chronic pain is a very large part of illness and disability, and living with chronic pain can be very difficult, which is why there are many  more posts on chronic pain than on acute pain. If you have any information you would like to share with us, please contact me. As well, if you have any suggestions of topics to cover, you can either leave a comment or email me. I’ll see what I can do.

And now…here are the top 10 posts at Help My Hurt for the month of June:

1. Helmetless motorcycle riders = organ donors?

2. Physical activity may help reduce arthritis pain

3. Press release: Lupus Foundation of America Launches Website Message Boards to Connect People With Lupus

4. Chest pain: is it a heart attack?

5. Help My Hurt lost one of its own today – RIP Tricia

6. Heroes actor Jack Coleman spreads the word about women and pain

7. Can my headaches mean I have a brain tumor?

8. Angelina Jolie sets a good example – she’s taking care of her feet, reducing foot pain

9. June: Living with Pain Blog Carnival

10. Painful dry mouth from medications

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Post from: Blisstree

Top 10 June posts at Help My Hurt

If you would like to participate in a future blog carnival, just check out the information the on side bar and it will tell you the date for the next one and how to submit your entry. Please make sure that your post has something to do with living with pain. I have been getting submissions that have nothing to do with pain, even in the vaguest sense and I can’t use them.

So now, here we go with the 14 posts that make up June’s Living with Pain Blog Carnival:

First on the list is medicman’s blog, Gout Treatments, which is a blog that discusses natural and alternative treatments for gout: Gout Treatments-Part 1 | How Pineapples Help Ease Painful Gout Attacks. He also submitted a second one: Gout Treatments-Part 5|Blueberries

Over at IC Disease, (IC is interstitial cystitis) this is a good post: Help For Skin Irritation and Urine Burn in IC

If you have back problems (and these days, who doesn’t?), Dean Moyer over at The Back Pain Blog submitted this post: Microdiscectomy and Herniated Discs.

My contribution to the carnival fits in here, it’s about the horrible side effect that can be referred to as “Sahara mouth”: Painful dry mouth from medications.

If you’re interested in complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), Bob’s blog, Acupuncture For Pain, Weight Loss, Depression, Cancer, Allergy and Infertility, has this post for you: Finding Acupuncture Pain Relief for Your Back

Raj sent me this post from Medical Transcription Herald, How To Prevent Constipation?

Communicating with physicians can be a big issue for people who live with chronic pain. Over at Fighting Fatigue, you’ll find this post: Improving Communication Between Patients & Doctors

Anmol Mehta submitted this very interesting post from his blog, Mastery of Meditation, Yoga & Zen: The Saint of Suffering – A Spiritual Story

Continuing in the meditation theme, David Godot’s blog, Way To Go, Godot!, provided us with Take Control of Your Brain with Mindfulness Meditation

Living with pain also means dealing with stuff like paper work. Along this line, Internet Marketing Blog has a post on Google Health: Google Health Launched. Can We Entrust our Health to Google?

I didn’t quite have this type of information in mind when I started the carnival, but it does relate to living with chronic pain. So, Jose DeJesus has sent us his submission, Lowering Prescription Drug Costs.

Same feeling about this post, from Self Help Blog, but I’m sure it is helpful so here is Compensation Is Worse Overall

I wasn’t sure about putting this one in, but then I thought that there may be people who could benefit, so the blog Boston Personal Injury Lawyer is in with this post: Boston Personal Injury Case-Do You Have One?

And that’s it for the June edition of Living With Pain Blog Carnival. That was a pretty good mix of participants, wasn’t it?

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Submit your blog article to the next edition of living with pain using the carnival submission form. Or look at the side bar for the admission link.

Image: Newscom

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Post from: Blisstree

June: Living with Pain Blog Carnival

So, she will now be referred to as Christina, and she has written yet another great post full of information. This post is on the horrible dry mouth that can affect many people who take medications for chronic pain or for the side effects of their pain medications.

And here is Christina’s post:

It often seems as if every single drug prescribed for me has dry mouth as a side effect, and I wind up with a situation better termed “Sahara Desert Mouth” than “dry mouth”. It is a minor irritation if you only have it for 5 or 10 days, but if you are taking medications that cause dry mouth 24/7, it can cause very significant problems.

Click here to read more.

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Post from: Blisstree

Painful dry mouth from medications