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Painopolis
by Painopolis
Welcome to Painopolis, the podcast for people with chronic pain. We bring you stories about people who confronted the worst hell imaginable, surmounted it, and are now ready to tell the rest of us how they did it. You’ve never heard stories like these. Stories straight from the trenches, brought to you by seasoned journalists who’ve made chronic pain their full-time beat. Prepare to be riveted. Painopolis. Relentlessly in search of what works, one defiant story at a time. Visit us at painopolis.com.
Episodes
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Ticked Off, Part 2: A Wildlife Biologist Battles Lyme Disease
Can’t sleep because of chronic pain? (And wondering if weed might help?) Get our new book, Cannabis Lullaby: A Painsomniac’s Quest for a Good Night’s Sleep. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook, it’s brimming with real-world, evidence-based answers. The author is Painopolis co-host David…
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Ticked Off: A Wildlife Biologist Confronts Lyme Disease
Can’t sleep because of chronic pain? (And wondering if weed might help?) Get our new book, Cannabis Lullaby: A Painsomniac’s Quest for a Good Night’s Sleep. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook, it’s brimming with real-world, evidence-based answers. The author is Painopolis co-host David…
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A Chimney Sweep’s Brush with Disaster—and Virtual Reality
Can’t sleep because of chronic pain? (And wondering if weed might help?) Get our new book, Cannabis Lullaby: A Painsomniac’s Quest for a Good Night’s Sleep. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook, it’s brimming with real-world, evidence-based answers. The author is Painopolis co-host David…
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Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Musician Cranks Up the Heat on Facial Pain
Can’t sleep because of chronic pain? (And wondering if weed might help?) Get our new book, Cannabis Lullaby: A Painsomniac’s Quest for a Good Night’s Sleep. Available in print, ebook, and audiobook, it’s brimming with real-world, evidence-based answers. The author is Painopolis co-host David…
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Trigeminal Neuralgia: A Scientist Cures Himself of Facial Pain
Tormented by severe facial pain, Hugh Spencer invented a nonsurgical way to relieve his trigeminal neuralgia. He found the remedy—capsaicin—inside a canister of pepper spray. Nineteen years ago, in a distant corner of northeast Australia, a scientist named Hugh Spencer started suffering horrible...
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Gunshot Wounds, Part 2: Aftermath of a Shooting
After recovering from eight gunshot wounds, Jeff Droke confronts two major dilemmas: chronic pain and a faulty justice system. Previously on Painopolis, gunshot survivor Jeff Droke described the day in 2003 when a gunman ambushed him at home. Droke was shot eight times in the head, neck and…
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Gunshot Wounds: When Pain Takes Aim
An ambush in suburbia. Eight shots. And a survivor who refused to be a victim. On a bitter January morning in 2003, a 19-year-old man named Billy Glenn Jackson drove a stolen rental car along a quiet residential street near Memphis, Tennessee. It was the sort of suburban neighborhood that…
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Painopolis Podcast New Season Coming Soon!
Stay tuned for a new season of Painopolis! It’s a podcast for people with chronic pain. And also for everybody else. That’s because we bring you stories about ordinary people who’ve grappled with extraordinary pain. And now that they’re on the other side of it, they want to pass along their...
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Stay Tuned for Season Two - Get ready for stories that will leave you transformed.
Today, we’re breaking from our usual format to let you know that we’ve now wrapped up Season One of Painopolis. Starting this week, we’ll be taking a break from publishing new episodes so we can work on Season Two. If you liked what you’ve heard thus far, here’s the good news: we’ll be taking it…
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A Ballet Master’s Balancing Act to Fight Parkinson’s - Alexander Tressor uses exercise, diet and stress reduction to keep Parkinson’s at bay.
Alexander Tressor was 47 and living in Manhattan when a neurologist gave him what he stoically calls “The Bad News.” A Russian-born ballet master, Tressor says hearing the word “Parkinson’s” was like getting hit by a lightning bolt. Then hearing “No cure” was like getting hit again. But Tressor…
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How Not to Get Gouged at the Pharmacy: GoodRx
Are you paying too much for your prescription meds? GoodRx can keep you from being overcharged at your pharmacy counter. Different pharmacies charge different prices for the same drugs. And the money you’re throwing away can be huge! And don’t think I’m comparing the prices at a mom-and-pop...
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How To Become a Guinea Pig: Using ClinicalTrials.gov
When none of the standard treatments relieve your chronic pain, should you try an experimental approach by volunteering for a clinical trial? And if so, how? It’s an all-too-common scenario: You’ve seen a slew of doctors who’ve prescribed countless treatments to erase your pain. Nevertheless, it...
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A Ketamine Coma Was Her Last Resort: RSD/CRPS
Her medical career halted by chronic pain, Shannon Stocker chose a high-risk procedure involving a powerful anesthetic, a five-day coma, and a do-or-die medical-tourism journey to Mexico. Shannon Stocker was 30 years old and in her last year of medical school when she first felt the pain. It...
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Does Your Doctor Work for You or Big Pharma? Dollars for Docs
Has your doctor accepted payments and perks from drug and medical device makers? Dollars for Docs can give you the answer. Every time you seek treatment for your chronic pain, you rightly expect to have your doctor’s undivided attention in the examining room. You also expect one other thing: your...
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Uncle Sam Is His Dealer: Medical Marijuana
Meet the chronic-pain patient who talked the feds into supplying him with free, legal medical marijuana for the last 34 years. You’ve probably heard about our guest today, maybe not by name but certainly by way of urban legend. The story goes like this: In Mississippi, the U.S. government has…
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Can a Plant-Based Diet Beat Ulcerative Colitis?
By switching from the pharmacy to the produce section, 32-year-old Gabrielle Fennimore hoped to tame her worsening ulcerative colitis. But did it work? By now, we’ve all heard that eating a plant-based diet protects against cardiovascular disease. But can you eat your way to better health if your...
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This Health Coach Won’t Take No For an Answer: MyFitnessPal
Fallen short of your diet and exercise goals and feel lousy because of it? Meet MyFitnessPal, an online personal trainer that’ll keep you on track. Is your doctor urging you to lose weight, limit your sodium, get more active, and make other lifestyle changes that push your willpower to the…
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Pelvic Pain Demands a Rewrite
Previously on Painopolis, editor and health journalist David Sharp described his descent into chronic pelvic pain syndrome and recounted his early reliance on a urologist who misdiagnosed the cause of Sharp’s pain for years. The urologist treated him with a drug that failed to quell his pain and...
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Our Anus Horribilis: Pelvic Pain
Today, Painopolis editor David Sharp outs himself as a chronic-pain sufferer, talks about the 20 years he spent in the Land of the Misdiagnosed, and recalls the unforgettable day his ass spontaneously imploded. “When you’re in terrible pain, doing nothing is not an option. It’s like, ‘I can’t…
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It’s Like Google on Steroids: PubMed - Review: Still using the big kahuna of search engines to answer crucial medical questions? That’s because you haven’t tried PubMed.gov. - Painopolis: Prevailing against chronic pain, one defiant story at a time
Imagine how empowering it would be to tap into the minds of top scientists. And not just any top scientists, but rather, the very people who’ve devoted their lives to coming up with better treatments for your specific medical problem. Their views could have a profound impact on the choices you…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Painopolis, the podcast for people with chronic pain. We bring you stories about people who confronted the worst hell imaginable, surmounted it, and are now ready to tell the rest of us how they did it. You’ve never heard stories like these. Stories straight from the trenches, brought to you by seasoned journalists who’ve made chronic pain their full-time beat. Prepare to be riveted. Painopolis. Relentlessly in search of what works, one defiant story at a time. Visit us at painopolis.com.
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Welcome to Painopolis, the podcast for people with chronic pain. We bring you stories about people who confronted the worst hell imaginable, surmounted it, and are now ready to tell the rest of us how they did it. You’ve never heard stories like these. Stories straight from the trenches, brought to...
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