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My son is 9 recently had to take him to the same day clinic. Ear infection and strept throat, they did a swab. My wife and I have been through a few ear infectons. His pead doc since birth found by some trial and error that Augmenton really works for him. Never more than one script. He even wrote in his chart this was the drug of choice. Every time we see a different doctor, witch is not uncommon kids symptoms come on so fast. They refuse to prescribe it. So this Sunday morning I get a 25 year old doc.I tell her we prefer Augmenton. She blows me off and says Zithromax is newer better and stonger. I politely ask her to go to the computer and check Dr/////// recomondations. She says I have already read that, he is an older DR. Zithromax is what you get. I protest again and she hands me the script and says there are other clinics.My son gets better but never looses his green runny nose. Back to the regular Doc, he still has an ear infection. One script of Augmenton he is fine.If this is the future of our health care we are all *&%^%ed.
Chronic Pain Shrinks the Brain
A. Vania Apkarian
December-02-2004
Released to the Public Date: 11-29-2004
Reference: This news item was obtained with permission from Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A Northwestern University study shows chronic back pain shrinks the brain by as much as 11 percent, which is equivalent to the degeneration of 10 to 20 years of aging.
Although chronic pain greatly diminishes quality of life and increases anxiety and depression for 10 percent of Americans, it was previously assumed that the brain reverts backs to its normal state after chronic pain stops. This was the first study to examine brain changes due to chronic pain.
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data and automated analysis techniques, researchers compared the brain images of 26 participants with chronic back pain to those of normal participants. The participants with chronic back pain had unrelenting pain for more than one year.
The study shows the reduction in brain density is related to pain duration, pain-related characteristics, and is more severe in the neuropathic type of pain, which is caused by sciatic nerve damage.
Researchers hypothesize that some of the decrease in brain density reflects only tissue shrinkage, which could be reversed with proper treatment. They say it may also be attributed to more irreversible processes like neurodegeneration.
"Given that, by definition, chronic pain is a state of continuous persistent perception with associated negative affect and stress, one mechanistic explanation for the decreased gray matter [the part of the brain that processes information and memory] is overuse atrophy [degeneration] caused by excitotoxic and inflammatory mechanisms," says A. Vania Apkarian, lead researcher.
They continue on to say that as the loss in brain elements progresses, it may dictate the properties of the pain state to the point that it becomes more irreversible and less responsive to therapy.
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