chronic pain treatment

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Q: Has anyone had real results from wearing hematite jewelry for chronic pain treatment?
I suffer from daily neck and shoulder pain and almost constant headaches. I’ve heard some people swear by wearing hematite beaded jewelry which I think has magnetic properties or something that is supposed to help with preventing or treating the pain. Just wondered if it really worked?

A: I don’t see any reason to believe that, but it may be pretty serious what you’re having, how long are you having this?
You should really see a doctor as soon as possible.

Q: Is there a way to get help paying for required dental treatment for chronic pain?
I have chronic, painful dental problems. In the last 8 years alone I’ve had at least 50 fillings, 4 extractions, 2 caps, 8 root canals and I’m still in an immense amount of pain. I’m in severe debt because I have had to charge these treatments which have amounted to more than $20,000 in just the last 2 years alone. I have begged dentists to simply remove my teeth but almost all insisted that they could and should be “saved”. I’m 27 years old and still have a lifetime of this ahead of me. ALL of my root canals are painful, after last years procedures, leaving me with a whole side of my mouth I can’t use. Is it really that crazy to ask to have these teeth removed? I can’t find relief– medically and especially not financially. I can no longer afford to have anything done to my teeth and am hoping that someone can help with advice.

A: go to mexico, to a biologic dentist.

http://www.mercola.com/article/dental/rootcanal/root_canals.htm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6nbEvFCRAcc

Hal Huggins answers the most commonly asked questions about root canals:

Why should I not have a ROOT CANAL done?

Root canals are recommended when a tooth has been fractured, or when decay has entered the nerve chamber and created much pain. Often the body calcifies the tooth membranes, and allows it to remain. Unusual as it sounds, the body does not like dead structures in it, and a healthy body will try to reject it. Pain requiring antibiotics and pain pills are frequently used until the immune system stops working in that area. Root canals produce toxins that can increase or create many autoimmune diseases.

Is laser treatment for cleaning of root canals and cavitations considered a safe treatment?

In both root canal sockets and cavitation linings, the big concern is the anaerobic bacteria. These are ones that live in the absence of oxygen. Botulism and gangrene are examples of anaerobic bacterial action. Bad bugs. If laser can kill all the bacteria, who is going to remove the dead bacteria, or the dead bone lining the sockets? There is no blood supply here. Laser only kills, does not clean debris. Other techniques are required to leave a clean area that can fill in with bone and new blood vessels.
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There is no way to disinfect a root canal. No matter how clean the area is or how free of bacteria, there are always bacteria in the tubules and they will grow. And, the more antibiotics taken or applied, the more antibiotic resistant, and stronger, they will become.

Root canals are the most toxic most damaging procedure dentists can do. You have two options: a root canal or an extraction. Dentists usually fill root canals with gutta percha. Some use the Sargenti method, a popular treatment used by 25% of dentists, but denounced by the American Dental Association because it contains formaldehyde compounds. There have been a lot of problems with those. They used to contain lead. The current formulas are said to have removed the lead, but millions of root canal treatments using the old formulas are still in people’s mouths. Gutta percha is 15% barium so that it will show up in the X-ray. Gutta percha shrinks and leaves gaps and the tooth can never be sterile. There is no such thing as a sterile root canal. During a root canal, the main canal is filled and possibly some of the small side canals, but the other smaller canal-like structures in teeth called dentinal tubules are too tiny to be filled during treatment and these tubules become home to bacteria instead. Since there are millions of these tubules there is room for enough bacteria to challenge the immune system. The waste products from these nasty germs include some very toxic substances called thio-ethers, and your body has to deal with these toxins 24 hours a day. They contaminate the bone around the tooth and they are picked up by the immune system and carried to the liver for detoxification. Unfortunately, the liver can be seriously damaged by them. Weston Price conducted research on root canals and wrote two books about how toxic they can be. So you have to make up your mind what is more important to you. I believe no tooth is worth destroying my immune system. by Jerome, Frank, D.D.S. (812) 376-8525, Columbus Indiana, Author of “Tooth Truth”

ROOT CANALS POSE HEALTH THREAT AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE MEINIG, D.D.S.
Dr. Joseph Mercola
1443 W. Schaumburg Rd.
Schaumburg, IL 60194-4065
phone 847-985-1777

MJ You’re assuming that ALL root-filled teeth harbor bacteria and/or other infective agents?

GM Yes. No matter what material or technique is used – and this is just as true today – the root filling shrinks minutely, perhaps microscopically. Further and this is key – the bulk of solid appearing teeth, called the dentin, actually consists of miles of tiny tubules. Microscopic organisms lurking in the maze of tubules simply migrate into the interior of the tooth and set up housekeeping. A filled root seems to be a favorite spot to start a new colony.

One of the things that makes this difficult to understand is that large, relatively harmless bacteria common to the mouth, change and adapt to new conditions. They shrink in size to fit the cramped quarters and even learn how to exist (and thrive!) on very little food. Those that need oxygen mutate and become able to get along without it. In the process of adaptation these formerly friendly “normal” organisms become pathogenic (capable of producing disease) and more virulent (stronger) and they produce much more potent toxins.

Today’s bacteriologists are confirming the discoveries of the Price team of bacteriologists. Both isolated in root canals the same strains of streptococcus, staphylococcus and spirochetes.

MJ Is everyone who has ever had a root canal filled made ill by it?

GM No. We believe now that every root canal filling does leak and bacteria do invade the structure. But the variable factor is the strength of the person’s immune system. Some healthy people are able to control the germs that escape from their teeth into other areas of the body. We think this happens because their immune system lymphocytes (white blood cells) and other disease fighters aren’t constantly compromised by other ailments. In other words, they are able to prevent those new colonies from taking hold in other tissues throughout the body. But over time, most people with root filled teeth do seem to develop some kinds of systemic symptoms they didn’t have before.

MJ It’s really difficult to grasp that bacteria are imbedded deep in the structure of seemingly-hard, solid looking teeth.

GM I know. Physicians and dentists have that same problem, too. You really have to visualize the tooth structure – all of those microscopic tubules running through the dentin. In a healthy tooth, those tubules transport a fluid that carries nourishment to the inside. For perspective, if the tubules of a front single-root tooth, were stretched out on the ground they’d stretch for three miles!

A root filled tooth no longer has any fluid circulating through it, but the maze of tubules remains. The anaerobic bacteria that live there seem remarkably safe from antibiotics. The bacteria can migrate out into surrounding tissue where they can “hitch hike” to other locations in the body via the bloodstream. The new location can be any organ or gland or tissue, and the new colony will be the next focus of infection in a body plagued by recurrent or chronic infections.

All of the “building up” done to try to enhance the patient’s ability to fight infections – to strengthen their immune system – is only a holding action. Many patients won’t be well until the source of infection – the root canal tooth – is removed

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In 2001, Dr. Mark Breiner, of Connecticut, author of Whole Body Dentistry:Discover the Missing Piece to Better Health, was disciplined and fined $5,000 in December 2001 for advising patients that their mercury fillings and root canals could be contributing to their health problems. His disciplinary actions were categorized under fraud/deceit/incompetence/negligence in his consent order. Now tell me who is practicing fraud? A dentist who tells his patients that the fillings are not just silver, but mostly mercury, or the American Dental Association and the Connecticut Department of Public Health who doesn’t want the public to know about the harmful effects of mercury fillings?

In his consent order the DPH also told him you “shall not remove teeth that have undergone root canal treatment that cannot be corrected by treatment of the root canal itself, retrograde filling or surgical apioectomy, or in which the root canal is fractured, without first providing the patient with the names and telephone numbers of two medical professionals approved by the Department with whom the patient may consult as to the traditional medical position on the planned treatment.”

So if a root canal was causing health problems in a patient, Dr. Breiner was not to remove it, but to put in a retrograde filling. That means he was to put mercury down under the gumline and surgical apioectomy means he was to put mercury down in the root of the tooth, after cutting into the gums down at the root. Can you imagine mercury, not just on top of your teeth, but also down in the meat of your gums, down at the tip of your roots where it is in contact with your flesh?

Manufacturers of amalgam fillings warn against the placement of retrograde fillings. But that is what dentists do to “save” a root canal. We have testimonies at DAMS of severe poisoning by mercury used in a surgical apioectomy.

Dr. Breiner got in trouble again with the Connecticut Department of Public Health when he wrote an editorial to the Connecticut Post newspaper warning against mercury fillings when there was a mercury spill in a local high school. According to a press release from Consumers for Dental Choice.

Dr Hal Huggins, D.D.S. in a lecture to the Cancer Control Society 1993:

Then we get into the root canal business, and that is the most tragic of all.

Isn’t there something you can put in the centre of the canal that is safe?

Yeah, there probably is, but that is not where the problem is. The problem with a root canal is that it is dead. Lets equate that. Lets say you have got a ruptured appendix, so you go to the phone book, and who do you look up? Lets see, we have a surgeon and a taxidermist, who do you call? You going to get it bronzed?

That is all we do to a dead tooth. We put a gold crown on it, looks like it has been bronzed. It doesn’t really matter what you embalm the dead tooth with, it is still dead, and within that dead tooth we have bacteria, and these bacteria are in the absence of oxygen. In the absence of oxygen most things die except bacteria. They undergo something called a pleomorphic change…like a mutation. they learn to live in the absence of oxygen…now produce thioethers, some of the strongest poisons on the planet that are not radioactive.

These get out into the body and you may notice in the medical literature of 1900 they mentioned a few heart attacks, so it wasn’t a big deal in 1900, but by 1910 2% of the US population, which is a lot of folks had had heart attacks. By 1920—10% of the population had had heart attacks, and we are up to about 25% about 10 years ago, and everywhere you go you see joggers running around. Menus in the restaurant have this little heart over it because we are on low cholesterol diets …….so what has it done. It has dropped the 25% down to around 43% . We are going in the wrong direction and root canals are going up. In 1990 we did 17 million of them. This last year we did 23 million, and the ADA hopes by the year 2000 we reach 30 million a year.

Weston Price knew this back in 1920 – he would take a person who had had a heart attack, take out the tooth with the root canal, take a little segment of it, put it under the skin of a rabbit.

We have done this with guinea pigs, and in about 10 days that rabbit would die of a heart attack. And you could take it out and put it under the skin of another rabbit, and in 10 days he would die of a heart attack……he would do this to 30 rabbits and every one of them in 97% of the cases would die of heart disease. What if they didn’t have heart disease? If they had something else, the rabbit picks up the something else, but all of them that we have tested in this way have ended up with an auto immune disease in the kidney, and if you look at the work of Joseph Issels in Germany who for 40 years treated terminal cancer cases. He started on them when they had already had their chemo, surgery, radiation, then they came to him. That is having 3 strikes against you and a fast ball down the tube there before you get up to the plate. He turned around 24% of 16,000 patients over a period of 40 years. What is the first thing he did? Have a dentist take out the root canal teeth.

…I have this shirt tail relative down there [Texas] about 24 years old, and she has brain cancer, so what do they do? They take out half her brain. Then it comes back so they take out the other half of her brain. Then it comes back a third time, and there is not much left to take out. Now they probably didn’t take out half, I may have stretched the point there a bit, but she was still fully functional, but it was right smack full in the middle of the brain. Three tumors growing, three root canals, and she is pregnant, and it is hard to overcome the stress to the body that pregnancy does, much less trying to overcome cancer, much less trying to overcome the root canals.

So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can’t find the tumor anymore. It went away.

So there are a lot of things, and this is just a tip of this giant chunk of ice under the water that has been making us think we are normal when we have all of these things going on in our body that we caught at the dental office-..it is time you were informed.

Q: what is the proper treatment for the chronic pain that occurs after a bout of shingles rashes?
I had painful rashes on my back and abdomen which eventually subsided leaving scars but chronic pain still persists. I am having
severe back and abdominal pain for the past one week. How long will it last and what is the best treatment?

A: My dr prescribed Valtrex, which decreases the length of time that you have the symptoms, and helps prevent future problems. Best wishes, I’m going thru the same thing.

Q: Chronic Pain Treatment?
I have chronic h/a. I never go to the e.r. unless I just cannot handle the pain. It has to be really unbearable. The staff treats me as if I am trying to go for the drugs. They have no compassion. It is like I have to have a protruding broken limb ot severe bleeding.. They will not look at my previous record. They also said the e.r. doesnot treat chronic pain. I have even had one doctor come into the room and told me that she had forgotten that I was there. My pain is real, Why do they treat me as such? I have a pain management physicianHe told me to go to the e.r. I hate to go to the e.r. That created my headache to worsen. This is a small community hospital that claims to be there and manage pain. Is there any way that I can overcome the personal insulting that results from my pain treatment.Why do they have to be so noncaring. I have reported this but they donot take my disease seriously. I have even felt like I cannot take the pain anymore.If you suffer chronic pain, I am sorry?

A: Next time you visit your Physician, ask him for a referral to a Pain Clinic in a larger town or teaching Hospital. Treatment is available for chronic pain. Acupuncture may help you too. Insurance does not cover acupuncture in most States.

Q: What are the most common and effective analgesics used for treatment of chronic pain today?
Which drugs are most commonly used? which are most effective? and of these drugs what are the problimatic side effects?

A: Co-codamol or Tramadol.

Q: I have a question concerning chronic pain treatment?
As some of you have read some of my questions you maybe somewhat aware of my circumstances.I have treatment resistant depression along with chronic H/A-the pain management specialist explains them as migraine-muscular tension, and fibromyalgia of the muscles of the head neck, and shoulders. I have been having fentyl 600mcg medicine that is absorbed inside the gum and inner cheek. I only have one doctor prescribing medication, have an agreement contract, the whole nine yards. Yesterday I had two lower jaw teeth extracted along with a bone graft. My oral surgeon suggested to continue with the fentyl medication 2 days after the surgery. Now my pain management has decided to only allow me to have hydrocodone 15mg. tabs 1 or 2 every 4-6 hrs.My tolerance to medication is high therefore my pain is not being controlled.Would you share with me your experience with chronic pain, the management, and the control that you receive.I feel that I will never get the pain controlled . HELP PLEASE
ADDITIONAL; I cannot begin to thank you all so much for the concern and the information.If more doctors would talk with their patients instead of down to us,think of the possibilities. Im giving this edit to my question just in case there are others that would have to the answers already.??how to I acquire the information or how might I learn these things with the information from India and were did you all learn how to put these things into practice? would you help me a little more? I am so sick and tired of my monthly trip to get my so called answer to the pain. I am 53years old and I feel that Ive lost those years to all quick fixes or under the control of the legal dealers handing out what they want to at the time. I want to get my life back and I thankyou all so much. I want to put the practical into action. It will not happen overnight but I want to try.

A: You are relying too much on meds and docs. Try alternative solutions. I have been told so much crap by docs over the years that I should be dead, and so many pills pushed on me I should be a zombie. But I fought back and fought them and refused to live that way. It took time but I found alternative solutions to my chronic pain ( have permanent nerve damage). Chiropractors have helped me. I was told I had clinical depression and that it would never get better, and pills were shoved at me. I changed my diet and lifestyle and take a pill twice a week instead of 5 a day for depression. I am rarely depressed now. I am too busy getting outside and exercising, breathing fresh air, staying busy. Fibromyalgia is directly linked to depression, treat one you will get rid of the other. Pain mgt. specialists are looking for a way to keep their paychecks coming in, they will not cure you. YOU must cure you. Get exercise, get busy with others, don’t eat crap. Pray or meditate, find a decent chiro/ massage therapist, take vitamins and get in the sun every day. Stop taking all that dope, you are poisoning yourself. The pain and depression will ease if you change your life and your mental state. Help others, get involved, get out of your head and into the world. Take baby steps but get moving ! Best of luck.

Q: Acupuncture for chronic pain treatment?
If you ever had Acupuncture for Chronic Pain or any condition did this form of therapy work? I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, and have een considering acupuncture. I get severe pain, like frozen shoulder inboth shoulders. The only current help is Cortisone injections. Please let me hear your stories!!

A: My wife had cronic pain from Multiple Sclerosis for years and Acupuncture did wonders for controlling the considerable pain, but as stated above you need to do it regularly. I recommend it highly!

BUT specifically the Rheumatoid Arthritis see below from another post I had!!!

There has been some recent discoveries about this form of Arthritis, see this book “The New Arthritis Breakthrough” by Henry Scammel, where they have studied (double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials) and found that Rheumatoid arthritis (and many supposed autoimmune disorders) are actually a mycoplasma infestation in the connective tissues/joints. These types of arthritis have responded well to an improvement in your immune system, and/or a specific powerful set of antibiotics (tetracyclines and the like). Once you realize that this form of arthritis is not an autoimmune as many have held over the years you can start to see results immediately!

I suggest trying nutrition based improvement of immune system first by adding these to your diet:

1) GlycoNutrients – improve cellular communication to allow your body to respond to these micro infections.
2) PhytoNutritents – give your body the missing nutrients for raw materials to heal
3) AntiOxidants – help you body defend against future attacks of this sort. (I suggest AntiOxidants with an ORAC of over 10,000)
4) PhtyoSterols – endocrine support for improved regulation

These will all boost your immune system to take care of the infection and over time you will feel better.

All of these are available from one place, contact me immediately via e-mail and I can tell you how to get the correct form for these. You will see an immedate improvement if you start quickly – Check it out!

Q: Does Medicaid pay for a spinal stimulator implant for treatment of chronic pain?
I have a friend who does not want back surgery. Does Medicaid pay for the spinal stimulator which is implanted directly under the skin and used to control pain?

A: Yes they should pay for it; my doctor did say once that medicade and medicare do pay for the implant and the trials. Most insurance companies do pay for it, but they should check just to make sure. It is a fairly expensive surgery, and the worst part is because I have Keloid scarring condition that I’ve had the surgery done 4 times because my scar tissue picks up the leads and carries them away, but besides that I’ve been really glad with the pain relief that I’ve gotten.

Q: What is the best treatment for chronic back pain??
I was in a recent mvc and been having back pain since. I got steroid injections as follow up but has not really helped the discomfort. Any other suggestions??

A: Have you tried using heat and cold compresses. They sometimes help with your mucsle relaxants.

Q: Patient rights concerning methadone for chronic pain treatment?
Recently I had called my Dr.s office in order that we might discuss my levels of pain, among other doctor/patient issues. But when I talked to her nurse and explained that I wanted to touch base with my doctor, I was given the runaround. After calling several times after that incident, I was told that my doctor is now dropping me from their palliative care treatment, they will no longer be treating me – they told me it was because of a phone call which I had made to them earlier, yet when I questioned them on that, they backpedaled, saying that it wasn’t due to the phone call but due to a failed drug test over 6 months earlier. My doctor had told me in no uncertain terms that if I were to smoke pot, it would not hinder my dosing or our doctor/patient relationship. I believe that they are dropping me because I threatened to go to the medical board after their terrible service in treating me. Several days later, the nurse gave my mother my last 30 day script of medicine ( I never signed a release though, so that was a violation of patient confidentiality ) and told her that I would no longer be receiving treatment. So far they’ve refused to refer me to another doctor who would be able to care for me, and I’m running out of ideas here.

I need my medication, I need my treatment. Ever since this new nurse started working in the office, my treatment has been consistently bad; oftentimes inexcusable. Frankly, I’m on my last legs here, and I’m wondering if someone here could suggest to me my next course of action. Go to the medical board, seek out an attorney, request help from NAMA? What should I do now?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. Meds – 880mg methadone per day & 64mg dilaudid per day. Ergo, I can’t just go to any old doctor. Need palliative care, I’m terminally ill and have chronic pain.

A: Go to another doctor.

You do not need to be referred. If you are on insurance, find one that is on the Preferred Providers list of your insurance. I would check with your insurance for this list and ask them what it takes to switch primary care physicians.

Q: Chronic Back Pain Relief – Which Treatment For Chronic Back Pain Works?
Looking for some effective, natural and non-surgical cure for chronic back pain.

A: These are the Top 7 non-surgical, natural options for chronic back pain relief:
1. Cognitive behavior psychotherapy
2. Exercise therapy
3. Chiropractic treatment for spinal manipulation
4. Acupuncture
5. Massage
6. Yoga
7. Progressive relaxation techniques

There’s a free questionnaire at the site below if you want personalized recommendations about your type of back pain and suggested cures.

Q: what is treatment of chronic injury pain?
my mother had injury on left feet from slip down from the step due to smooth surface. in x ray report no evidence of fracture and deformity.pain killer does not relief,she has recurrence pain with tenderness of feet esp.left toe,what is solution of this problem?give me suggetion i waiting for.

A: Do you live in a state that has medical marijuana?

Medical Marijuana is usually used to treat pain and works very effectively.

It’s usually given to cancer patients with chronic pain but your mom could easy get an MMJ card, as they give them out for chronic pain in general.

Q: Any other yahoo users with chronic pain and are you getting the treatment you need?
I would like to hear from other people that are currently in or have been in a test program for the drug PTI-821 or Remoxy or hear from others that have been on pain killers for chronic pain for a long time.

My question really is, what has made you deal with chronic pain in a successful way, even if it is something other than drugs.

I have chronic lower back pain and of course the nerve pain that comes with it.
I see a pain specialist and I am in an experimental drug program as well. The meds I am on are making me feel better than I have in years. Remoxy is like oxycontin but cannot be crushed or brokedown in any way… now I am at 80mg per day and level 5 pain….. Had steriods, shots, stretching, all sorts of things.

A: I am a chronic pain patient. I have pelvic congestion syndrome. I’m on 40 mgs of Oxycontin and 10 mgs of Oxy IR for breakthrough pain. I’m a whole new person. I have gone from being unable to get out of bed and function to being at no higher than level 1 pain. The doctors up until now have just put me on painkillers for a short time and then snatched them away and told me I was adicted because they worked and helped me. I finally got a gyn who was willing to find out what was really wrong and refer me to pain management. I’ve had medical problems for the past 5 years related to this. Only now that I am in pain management am I better.

I’m interested in Remoxy. I’ve heard about it and read about it. I’d like to get involved in the clinical trials. How does one go about it? I live in the DC area, so I would thik that NIH would have a program for it.

Q: can you locate u.s. department of veternans affirs chronic pain treatment site for san antonio, texas?
u.s. department of veterans affairs in san antonio, texas

A: The VA Hospital in San Antonio is called the “South Texas Veterans Health Care System”. It is located at
7400 Merton Minter Blvd.
San Antonio , TX 78229
Phone: (210) 617-5300 or (888) 686-6350

Q: would “music has a positive influence on the treatment of chronic pain” be a cause/effect paper?
btw does the topic sound okay should it just be left the way it is or “music has a positive influence for the treatment of chronic pain?”
is this just a cause or a effect topic or both?

A: Yup, it’s a great cause and effect paper.
The cause: listening to music
The effect: treating pain
And the title is fine.

And btw, we say “influence ON” something, not “influence FOR something”, so the first title is indeed correct.

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