Chronic Pain: OTC or Prescription Medicine?

I came across this article in my email. I find it very interesting. There's 4 pages to it. Thought I would share it with you all. Let me know what you all think, comment below please. Thanks!!

http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/features/when-to-call-doctor

Mediguard.org

www.mediguard.org

Highly recommended if you have a lot of medications. It keeps track of your meds. Shows interactions, date you began med, health conditions, risk ratings and more. Here's there about us section:

MediGuard was created by professionals with decades of experience in healthcare market research, clinical drug development, and drug safety. Initially funded by Quintiles Transnational, the world’s leading provider of clinical research services, the primary purpose of MediGuard is to promote better communication and research about drug safety. Specifically, the goal was to create a community of patients profiled by medication and condition that are both accessible and motivated to participate in research.

We believe that the patient can play an important role in improving drug safety. Today, public and private organizations spend millions of dollars on drug safety research and risk management programs-often with disappointing results. At MediGuard, we feel strongly that connecting patients and researchers will allow us to conduct better, faster and more cost-effective research. Our end goal is to publish data that ultimately improves patient satisfaction, safety, and health.

iGuard - For those of us on too many medications to keep straight

For those of us with too many medications to keep straight, please don't leave it up to one or multiple doctor's to keep them straight. You need to take care of this yourself as well. I recommend https://www.iguard.org. It's secure and very easy, only took me about 10 minutes to enter about 14 medications. Also, they have a lot of tweets on Twitter of interactions and info about the kind of medications we all take. Enjoy!

Downloads and Resources

Just a reminder to check out the tabs across the top of my blog. Lots of free downloads and resources there. Here's the direct link for Downloads/Resources. 

http://chronicpainramblings.blogspot.com/p/resources.html