HELP WITH RESEARCH

by Jeanne Hambleton  © 2008 NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate   If you have fibromyalgia, has your doctor  prescribed nefopam also known as Acupan, as a strong painkiller for you? Have you suffered any side effects? Does it suit you and kill off your pin?   Professor Patrick Wood, M D, well known for his fibromyalgia and [...]

FIBROMITES, FAMILIES AND OLD FOLKS

by Jeanne Hambleton  © 2008 NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate     In these days when our UK newspapers are full of stories about the lack of respect for the elderly starved of their dignity – mixed hospital wards, underfed folk in care homes, dirty bed linen, people dying with no-one to go to their funeral, it [...]

FIBROMYALGIA – IS IT REAL?

by Jeanne Hambleton  © 2008 NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate   An article, suggesting that fibromyalgia is not real, has appeared in the New York Times in the last few days, has certainly opened a can of worms among the FM community. The story, written by Alex Berenson and called  ‘Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?’ refers [...]

COPROXAMOL DEBATE ALIVE AND WELL

by Jeanne Hambleton  © NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate     The coproxamol debate is continuing to gather pace in spite of the Government.   I am pleased to tell you that MPs Anne Begg and Dr Howard Stoate, who have been fighting since July 2005 to save this 50-year-old ‘safe’ painkiller from extinction, are seeking a [...]

A GLASS OF BEER AND A ROW OF KNITTING

by Jeanne Hambleton  © NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate     When I decided to write this story I had no idea just how popular knitting had become until a read an article in the Daily Express just before Christmas. My idea was to recommend this pastime as a way to occupy the mind, keep the fingers [...]

CONGO’S BILL AND THE RACE AGAINST TIME

by Jeanne Hambleton  © NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate     A committee of the New Jersey Senate has considered a new bill called Congo’s Law and there are hopes that Congo, the German Shepherd dog, will no longer be under sentence of death.   Congo was put on “death row” last June as a vicious dog [...]

PAGE 3 CALENDARS & A FUND RAISING BALL

   by Jeanne Hambleton © NFA Leader Against Pain International Advocate For my sins I am the moderator of the http://www.ukfibromyalgia.com/forum and this week I received an email asking if I had received enough response from sufferers about lobbying government for funding for research into FM?  The writer said, “Did it go before anybody?”   The [...]

FIBROMITE DENIES ACCESS TO HER MEDICAL RECORDS ON SPINE

by Jeanne Hambleton  © NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate     I have taken steps to deny access to my medical records by 850,000 people and opted out of the NHS Spine database. If I were a celebrity my confidential medical records could be worth £10,000 to another journalist.   In the House of Commons Vincent Cable (MP Twickenham) [...]

NO U TURN ON CO-PROXAMOL WITHDRAWAL

by Jeanne Hambleton  © NFA Leader Against Pain-Advocate   Distributors and pharmacists are being asked to return unsold stock and supplies of co-proxamol to the manufacturers.   Regardless of all the lobbying, objections, petitions and correspondence, it is official – co-proxamol can no longer be prescribed by your GP – unless there are extenuating circumstances [...]