How do we manage Chronic Pain? This week we talk to Louise Trewern of Living Well with Pain, who has herself lived with chronic pain since childhood. After years of strange illnesses, infections and persistent pain Louise was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and prescribed a stupor-inducing cocktail of opioids, antidepressants and benzodiazepines. We chat to Louise about how she discovered a different approach to self-management that she attributes to saving her life. It is a story that challenges widely held convictions about how pain is managed and the importance of treating a patient as a person and not a symptom.

We continue the development of our ‘NHS Tonic’ - the treatments our guests prescribe to cure our ailing NHS.

As with all of our guests, Louise shares with us a Memory Evoking Medicine, a life anthem and book that has influenced her life.

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Live well with Pain: https://livewellwithpain.co.uk/

Chronic Pain: Definitions and Diagnosis https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2023-076036

Louise on Twittter @loulouscorpio

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