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Preparing for a New Doctor When You Live With Chronic Pain

Tips for people living with chronic pain on preparing for a first visit with a new doctor, including what information to bring and how to advocate for yourself.

The Weight We Carry: Pain, Resilience, and Recovery in Military Life

Army veteran Lexi Mitchell shares her journey with chronic pain, resilience, and the unseen cost of military life.

I am Real and Have My Life to Live with Chronic Pain. Do I have the Strength to Keep Fighting?

At 75, living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and chronic pain, Ellen Lenox Smith reflects on resilience, vulnerability, and the strength to keep going.

Know Someone With Pain? Check in With Them Today

Recently, while I was having a rougher day with my condition, called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, I had this unwanted and embarrassing feeling of wishing someone would think to ask how I was doing. I find that since this challenge has been going on for me for so long,...

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Pain Warrior of the Month: Dawn Stancliff

Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 37 years old Pain Warrior Role: Advocate and ambassador since 2014 Conditions: Melker-Rosenthal Syndrome, Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome, lymphadnopothy, fibromyalgia, Non-Specific Brain T-2 flair lesions, degenerative disc...

Update on nonmedical switching efforts

Nonmedical switching advocacy had some major developments in April, as many state legislative sessions began to wrap up. Nonmedical switching occurs when insurers force patients off medications for financial reasons instead of medical ones. U.S....

Speaking out on federal issues

U.S. Pain submitted letters on three key federal topic this month: a proposed measure for tracking opioid abuse across health plans; the reauthorization of an act on the drug evaluation process; and whether manufacturers should be allowed to...

Advocating for safer medications at the FDA

On April 5, U.S. Pain Foundation’s Senior State Advocate, Wendy Foster, flew to D.C. for the joint meeting of the Anesthetics and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee and Drug Safety and Risk Management at the Food and Drug Administration...

Tune in to two key federal pain policy events in May

U.S. Pain urges its members to participate in livestreams of two major events about pain policy at the federal level happening this May. The first is a meeting at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services entitled, “Implementation of the...

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