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Dr. Mark Borigini

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posted 12/27/2007, comments (7)

A New Year's Wish for 2008: No More Breakthrough Pain

It is well known that breakthrough pain (BTP) remains the scourge of those who suffer from chronic pain. It seems these patients cannot experience any sort of reasonable prolonged relief. Fentanyl buccal tablets (FBT) have been used for quite a long time for cancer-related BTP, and in fact is FDA-approved for this indication. But... Read more Chevron

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Dr. Mark Borigini

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posted 12/21/2007, comments (3)

Going Barefoot Easier on the Knees?

Ah, the holidays. It is a time when many of us revert to our stereotypical roles. The men are in the family room watching the latest bowl game, and the women are in the kitchen cooking. But are some of those poor ladies cooking doing so on painful knees? And if so, what can the rest of us do--short of asking them to relax and not... Read more Chevron

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Chuck Murray

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posted 12/21/2007, comments (14)

Morning fog

Talkin 'bout brain fog.The last 2 nights I've hardly slept at all. Last night I was up and down so much at 4 am I stayedup, my wife gets up at 430am to go to work so, at least I got to see her off for her day. Don't know If I slept on it wrong or what but, my left arm wasdead as a post no feeling what so ever and cold.That might have... Read more Chevron

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beachtiglet

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posted 12/19/2007, comments (9)

Starting a new chapter soon...advice welcome

Well, this was an interesting neurologist appointment to say the least. A lot of my problems related to occipital neuralgia and TMJ were probably from the Trigeminal Neuralgia. Now we have to get the nerve issue suppressed (I was still at below therapeutic levels of the seizure med my doctor chose). Thankfully, most of the... Read more Chevron

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Adrian Serra

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posted 12/19/2007, comments (3)

Switching pain meds ....

Recently I was given a script for the Ultram ER .. I had been taking up to 9 tramadol a day .. I suffer pain from both FMS and MS .. and this along with a myriad of anti-depressants are all i take for my pain .. which is everyday, consistant in certain areas and worse in some .. Back to the script. Prior to getting the script I was given by... Read more Chevron

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