New diagnosis step by step
 

site...a bit technical and fractionated, but the graphs and charts are OK.

http://www.aan.com/familypractice/html/chp3.htm

Happy reading! - j

PS no date on it but the basics are valid.

Pretty decent--
 

--butthe absence of gluten problems is troubling, as they can casue both peripheral neuropathy and central nervous system disorders, most prominently cellebellar ataxia.

Article on Phantom Limb Pain
 

There is a connection with PN pain in that many of the reasons for the PN pain are the same as for the PLP.

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/pain/mi...medicine2.html

*This* article is what had me doing research because I couldn't remember exactly what the cause of phantom limb pain is.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/19...apy/index.html

Oddly enough, a mirror placed next to the missing limb 'tricked' the brain into thinking the limb was still there. Yeah, weird. But hey, if it works....!!! :D

ETA: I C&P the entire post I'd done originally. Didn't realise the links would truncate. Also, I just realised I need to post the entire article as at some point CNN won't have it available anymore. Thanks for the heads up.

RE: Article on Phantom Limb Pain
 

Neither of those two links work, they seem to be shortened... can you fix?

Rose Terry

Article from CNN
 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/19...apy/index.html

At some point soon the article will no longer be available.

For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: Mirrors

By Saundra Young
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Army Sgt. Nick Paupore was in the lead Humvee in a convoy rolling through Kirkuk City, Iraq, when the vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

Paupore says it wasn't a very big explosion, more like a loud firecracker. He could feel the rush going through the vehicle, the change of pressure, smoke filling the cab. He felt a burning sensation in the back of his legs, but he wasn't in pain, and he could actually move his legs. He felt lucky. He was alive. He got out of the vehicle, intending to help the others, and passed out.


Rest of the article is currently at the link.

just a reminder about
 

copying posts here.

If you copy paste your post with links in it, only the abbreviated form
carries over. vBulletin shortens links to keep the page width stable.

If you need to copy one of YOUR posts to another forum here, you have
to hit edit function and copy from that box. I removed the [url] brackets, but I don't think you have to... This way the link(s) in that post will show up
as active in the new location.

The harder way is to go to the links and copy the addys of Google. But it can be done that way too.

Free 3-D anatomy software:
 

This is very interesting, and free.

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophiloso...ve_anatomy.php

Can help patients understand nerve paths, and other bodily details.
(may help in placement of Lidoderm patches, for example).

Notice that it does not run on Mozilla (Firefox) or other browsers, ONLY Interet Explorer.

Mrs. D.

How exactly do you do this? I opened up internet explorer and sure enough there it was (it also worked using my mozilla), but I went back to internet explorer anyway. I clicked on "take the tour", but don't know what to do next.
Does one have to register and then you use the software??

Thanks,

Pain management
 

I ran across this article on pain management which describes an 8-step strategy to determine equianalgesic oral and parenteral doses of opiods, e.g. meperidine, morphine, codeine, oxycodone, methadone, levorphanol, hydromorphone, and fentanyl and how to address changes in routes of administration.

There's a very brief description of neuropathic pain but it doesn't offer anything new as far as agents to address PN. Nonetheless, the article might help when people need to change among the opiod and related meds or change the route of administration.

http://www.clinmedres.org/cgi/reprint/1/4/337.pdf

Alkymst

Note: Zyrtec is now sold OTC as well. Walmart has it as does CVS. I don't know about any other drugstores/locations. Walmart it's a little over 19.00 for 30 tablets. They also have a generic but I've found from experience, after trying the generic that I experience break-through itching with the generic and I don't have that problem with actual Zyrtec. I take Zyrtec for idiopathic itching.

So it wasn't my imagination that Atarax lessened the burning in my feet! I was given Atarax for break-through itching and anxiety. I found, before I found other treatments, that Atarax often lessened my symptoms at night and also made me groggy so I could sleep.