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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Have you ever heard of pleurisy? Before the summer of 1999, I had vaguely heard about it but I also thought it was one of those diseases or illnesses that people got generations ago, not now. That was until I got it. I call that time in my life the summer from you-know-where. I’d lost my job, we’d moved and were having major problems with selling our house (don’t ever believe someone has “private financing!”) and I was very sick. I was sick with what turned out to be pleurisy. As if that wasn’t bad enough – I was also …read more