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Pain As a Symptom of Vitamin D Deficiency
Yet another study shows that chronic pain is a symptom of Vitamin D deficiency.
Another study, this time from the renowned Mayo Clinic, states that people with low Vitamin D levels use almost twice as much pain medicine as those who have normal levels!
This is only one of MANY STUDIES that show the relationship between chronic pain and Vitamin D levels. Many researchers are even implicating Vitamin D deficiency as The Cause of Fibromyalgia and that many with this elusive condition can be effectively treated simply with proper high dose supplementation!
Yet, it’s unlikely that this study will change policy in the Conventional Medical Field. There are a few doctors who are now starting to check 25(OH) D levels for various reasons, yet most still are clueless about the MANY diseases that a deficiency can improve and even cure. Unfortunately, most of health care is driven by education from Pharmaceutical Companies- and Vitamin D doesn’t have any scantily clad vitamin representatives running around to doctors offices giving out samples so that awareness of it’s benefits increases.
Another problem is that even when doctors DO happen to find Vitamin D Deficiency, they are unaware of the proper way to treat it. They will often give low doses in the range of 800 to 1000 IU’s and never recheck the patient’s blood level. When the patient doesn’t get better, they conclude that treatment of Vitamin D deficiency didn’t help their pain. But what they fail to understand is that the low dose that they prescribed is completely inadequate to treat the deficiency!
And research shows that even VERY MILD deficiencies can cause pain! So these patients continue to suffer unnecessarily due to their doctor’s ignorance.
If you suffer from PAIN OF ANY KIND, then you owe it to yourself to get your Vitamin D levels- called a 25(OH)D- checked and have AGGRESSIVE treatment of any deficiency that you may have.
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Alternatives to Pain Medication
Learning to deal with the constant pain from a failed back and what you may be able to do about it. From my experiences and what I have learned from reading talking with my doctors and other sources. I believe that the medication you have to take and deal with is almost as bad as the injury itself. You are looking for relief from the pain but you don’t want to get caught up in the addiction and bad side effects that come along with these types of medicines.
When you have a back injury the medication you take can range from Tylenol to some of the strongest pain relievers on the market. Anti-inflammatory are used to help with inflammation also seizure medicine are used to help with nerve pain. If you are experiencing depression you may need to take medicine or talk with someone for this also. Don’t let the embarrassment or your ego stop you from talking with or getting help with depression this is a very real problem with chronic pain. I know that my pride got in my way when it came time to talk to a psychologist.
You need to discuss this thoroughly with your doctor so that you understand the results you are looking for and the side effects? A lot of these stronger medications are habit forming. They can also cause constipation, and nausea. Discuss this with your doctor on how you can minimize these side effects and steps to take if this becomes a problem. One of the best ways to prevent the constipation is to drink a lot of water and try to eat a lot of fiber in your diet. I find that eating a good whole grain cereal can really help.
My experience has been that the doctor can put you on a regiment of medication that will help relieve your symptoms like if they were treating any other chronic illness. One big problem is we will wait to take the pain medication until the pain is unbearable because we are trying to not become addicted. The problem is that once the pain gets to that point no matter how much medication you take you probably will not get the relief you need. This is where you will take more pain medicine and you start to build a resistance to the drug. If you are taking more than five vicodin a day you are building resistance. So talk with your pain management specialist to see if they can come up with a way to deal with all your symptoms with different medication rather than just more pain medication.
One of the experiences I had with not knowing there were medications that can help with different symptoms. Was when the Surgeons had told me that there was no more they could do with surgery and that he was going to send me to a pain management specialist? My understanding of them and what I had heard from other patients was they would put me on some stronger narcotics and send me on my way to deal with the pain the best I could. When I went to the pain management specialist there were some test that he did and we found out that the reason I was walking holding the wall when it was dark was that I had lost sensation in my feet. Which I had know idea that it had anything to do with the injury this is just one case where this kind of symptom develops over a long period of time and you don’t realizes that it is actually happening until someone points it out to you. Then he told me there were combination of medication that he could use that would help with these symptoms and pain and there was no real mention of pain medication other than what I had already been taking.
You may have nerve pain or muscle cramps you may not be getting enough rest. There are medicines to help relieve all of these symptoms, a lot of times they are not pain relievers, and they don’t have the side effects. The doctor may know of alternative programs that may help you to relieve some of this pain also. Like deep breathing exercises, biofeedback, meditation, massages and exercise programs. If you are on the dead end path of painkillers try to get in touch with a pain management specialist to see if you and him or her can come up with a different approach.
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How to Manage Your Acute Pain
It is more commonly referred to as the pain medicine. And as the name somewhat refers it deals with respite from aches and hurting. The administration of the respective condition depends on its kind. If the category of pain being dealt with is that of the acute pain that is the direct outcome of a shock or an underlying ordeal, it might be reversed without medication. But if the category is that of the chronic pain then the causes are not easy to reverse and may take a longer time frame to correct.
Many a time the pain channels go on and continue the conveyance of pain even when its fundamental cause has been cured. In such a condition the aim of the treatment is to help in the administration of the ache. It normally profits much from poly punitive approaches which involve the administration of pain killers and pain modifiers such as nsaids, steroids and drugs that produce a numbing affect and stupor. Often alternative methods such as massage therapies and mental therapies are also employed which do not involve any oral medication. In this case the hot and cold therapies may also prove beneficial.
Where its usage was only limited to cancer patients, today several medical practitioners aim at different types of pain via analgesia. It is basically the physical state where the absence of pain is achieved without the loss of state of consciousness.
This subject is associated with almost all disciplines of medicine. Hence the people who have been educated as physicians are mostly psychiatrists, neurologists or physiotherapists. They deal with pain in different ways, as in where some might employ concentrate on the pharmacologic management of the person who requires medical attention whereas other might centre on an interventional technique. The later mentioned procedure is more commonly performed.
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