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well detoxing off meds is no longer a huge issue for me. i did go back on a small dose of neurontin and wellbutrin. i just wasn’t doing well. my fibro is probably about as managed as it will ever get. basically i have to maintain the self-discipline to do good and healthy things for [...]

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monsanto is everywhere. while this is not a new clip i think it’s important to link this to the others that i posted:

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ok, i’m a chinese crested owner (a hairless dog). i also have fibromyalgai. i just thought this was an interesting article about people using hairless dogs, xolo (of course cresteds would work as well) as therapy dogs for the treatment of pain conditions such as fibro. of course just having a dog or two or [...]

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sorry about the formatting. i can’t seem to get this to flow correctly.
i was sharing online about my fibro and of course my history as a person recovering from substance abuse and…what happened when i was treated long-term for pain management. bits of this story are strewn through out my blog. but this is a [...]

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i guess in light of a recent suicide in my community i’m looking at an issue near to my heart and life. suicide.  in the ”against medical advice” blogg the author shared an all to common experience of people who’ve woken up in the ER after an incompleted suicide, http://agmedad.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/incompleters/#comment-6509
this is the response i wrote…i need to [...]

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my counselor and i began discussing polarity therapy…energy work. i wanted to read more about what exactly it was. i’m very familiar with a variety of yoga, meditation and have had reiki, massage and acupuncture work done…but i wanted to know more about polarity therapy because this is just another area that  can use improvement when [...]

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well, i do have a bit of a bee in my bonnet. it’s about the accelerated taper schedule i needed to follow. i don’t harp about my life’s circumstances…the one thing that can drag me down faster than my illness, because it won’t help things and it’s not the topic i’m working with. but i’m [...]

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this is an article from the “modern healthcare” site:
Congress appears to be nearing agreement on a bill that would prohibit health insurers from denying coverage to otherwise healthy individuals who have a genetic predisposition to develop a disease. A Senate vote on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act could be held Thursday, congressional sources said.
The bill [...]

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this isn’t really news…but it was released again today…from the fiercepharma newsletter:
5. Neurontin fails bipolar med review
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Review the research on epilepsy meds, and what do you find? Neurontin (gabapentin), is no better than placebo for bipolar disorder, according to the Prescribing for Better Outcomes center at the University of North [...]

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so many of us that have lived with a diagnosis of mental illness or chronic disorders such as fibromyalgia and chronic pain also suffer from a loss of mental acuity and function. it can be the result of long term use of psych meds, pain meds, benzodiazapines, etc….it can also result simply from atrophy, attributed to [...]

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