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Ask the PharmD: What role do vitamin D supplements play in treating dysmenorrhea?
Dysmenorrhea, or menstrual pain, occurs in up to 90% of women and can have a detrimental effect on quality of life as symptoms become severe.1,2 Primary dysmenorrhea is characterized by pain without underlying pathology. Secondary dysmenorrhea refers to menses precipitated by an underlying pathology or a different medical condition.
Hormone Therapy for Chronic Pain
Emerging and potential uses for neurosteroids, human chorionic gonadotropin, corticosteroids, oxytocin, nandrolone, and other hormone therapies for pain.
Letters to the Editor: Initiating Hormones
Editors answer readers questions. This month: how to initiate hormones in pain patients
Neurohormones in Pain and Headache Management: New and Emerging Concepts
A special set of neurohormones with pain-related functions, which if tapped for their intrinsic use, may diminish the need for opioids.
Letters to the Editor: Hormone Dosing, Adhesive Arachnoiditis
Hormone Dosing
Testosterone Replacement: Essential in Pain Management
Testosterone replacement has been around since the 1970s. However, there has been a sharp increase in the number of prescriptions for testosterone in the past decade. Between 2000 and 2011, for example, the United States saw a 4-fold increase in testosterone use among men, many of whom had normal levels of testosterone.1
A Day of Consulting in Rural America
America’s growing shortage of pain specialists, and now primary care physicians, is affecting the availability of pain treatment in many rural communities. This has become true in one rural community in Chino Valley, Arizona, approximately 90 miles northwest of Phoenix, where the primary care physicians are being tasked to become experts in chronic pain management.
Editor's Memo: Neurosteroids—Gaining Ground In Pain Management Research
Letters to the Editor: Mistaken Hormone, Lab Values
Dr. Forest Tennant answers readers questions about hormone therapy and laboratory values.
Hormone Testing and Replacement in Pain Patients Made Simple
Article examines hormone testing and replacement as an essential component of chronic pain management.
HCG and Testosterone
A letter from a reader of Practical Pain Management on the use of human chorionic gonadotropic (HCG) in the care of chronic pain patients. A pain expert responds.
Editor's Memo: FDA Removes Homeopathic HCG; Helps Legitimate Use In Pain Treatment
In 2011, the FDA took action against seven companies marketing over-the-counter human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) products that were labeled “homeopathic” for weight loss. This is good for pain practitioners wanting to use HCG for pain treatment. Dr. Tennant explain why.
Letters to the Editor: Hormone Therapies
Letter to the Editor from Practical Pain Management about using human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) in the treatment of chronic pain.
Hormone Therapies: Newest Advance in Pain Care
The effect of severe, persistent pain on the hormone system is profoundly negative. If the patient’s hormone system is not kept homeostatic and balanced, the patient with pain will rapidly age and deteriorate. Consequently, the achievement of hormonal balance—not too high or too low—has to be a primary goal of treatment.
Hormone Treatments in Chronic and Intractable Pain
An emerging practice.
From Research To Practical Application: Long Term Testosterone Treatment
Long Term Testosterone Treatment
Testosterone Replacement in Chronic Pain Patients
Adequate testosterone serum levels are required in males and females not just for libido and sexual function but also for cellular growth, healing, maintenance of muscle mass and bone, and central nervous system maintenance of opioid receptors, blood- brain barrier, and dopamine-norepinephrine activity.
Hormone Replacements and Treatments in Chronic Pain: Update 2010
When severe pain and stimulation of the pituitary-adrenal-gonadal axis goes unabated over time, exhaustion of some adrenal compounds may develop and, left untreated, may pose a combination of problems.
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in Pain Treatment
HCG has great potential as an adjunct in the treatment of severe, chronic pain patients—particularly in those who demonstrate hormonal deficiencies or who show progressive wasting and deterioration.
Testosterone Replacement in Female Chronic Pain Patients
Since testosterone assists opioids in crossing the blood brain barrier and helps activate a number of central receptors and neurochemicals systems, it is a judicious, ethical, and clinically necessary practice to replace testosterone in female chronic opioid patients—subject to informed consent.
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