WASHINGTON - Howard Heit knows pain.

He lives it, he studies it, he works to reduce it. His own pain used to get so bad that he wore patches of hair off the back of his head by rubbing it hard against walls in a desperate effort to get some relief.

"What I was feeling was like a cramp in my leg, but multiply that by 100 times and make it continuous," he now says. He no longer hurts like that, but he still wears a brace with a head attachment he can push against for acupressure when a pain spasm hits. 

To read the whole article ............ >

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/living/14483111.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Reported in the June 10/06 FibroHugs newsletter