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Thought I'd share a few recent abstracts on Central pain in chronic pelvic pain and the implications for management http://journals.lww.com/co-obgyn/Abstract/publishahead/Pain_thresholds_in_women_with_chronic_pelvic_pain_.99613.aspx http://humupd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/06/11/humupd.dm...

Thought I'd share this article about this book
Cora

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... 5uPvRZYwXc

Hi,
Just wanted to share this recent newsletter from the Pt's and Pelvic Pain Rehab center. They have a lot of info on their web site and in their newsletters

http://www.pelvicpainrehab.com/uncatego ... d-nuggets/

Hi Kathy, You might want to ask your doctor for some samples of Linzess which is a new drug that helps with constipation. It's labeled as exclusively for women with IBD, but it's prescribed for constipation. It's quite expensive, but at least maybe see if you can get some samples to see if it works....

The other thing I want to mention is that "off-label" is often confusing It's done all the time with so many drugs. Compazine is a nausea drug but used for headaches. Seizure meds like gabapentin for chronic pain used to be off-label but now it's approved. Until recently, anti-depressants ...

Ezer,
That is true about Suboxone, but not Buprenorphine.
Not trying to be argumentative either, but the two are easily confused.
Cora

One more thing that I wanted to add to my previous post. Buprenorphine for chronic pain is not considered an off-label use. As Ezer said, many physicians currently are reluctant to prescribe it for chronic pain ( does not many any sense to me at all). Again, Butrans is the identical drug and pain do...

One thing I want to clarify regarding Buprenorphine ( aka Subutex) is that it actually is legal to prescribe it for pain. IT is the identical drug in the Butrans patch. What one needs to understand that if it is prescribed for opiate dependency, that is when doctors need to go through specific train...

Hi Bertie,
Another doctor who would concur with you regarding PN is Dr. Robert Echenberg. Just thought I'd throw that into the mix.

Cora

Thanks Ezer!