Painopolis: Prevailing Against Chronic Pain, One Defiant Story At A Time

While bedridden with Lyme, Kelly Weintraub set the goal to hike the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail. Could this wildlife biologist claw back her health?

The most dangerous creature Kelly Weintraub ever came across was as small as a poppy seed. But its bite infected her with a ticking time bomb of chronic ailments.

After a horrific fall from a roof, Bob Jester needed opioids to get through the day. Then he found something better: the pain-fighting power of VR.

Can a do-it-yourself treatment involving capsaicin—a chemical in hot peppers—stop the agony of severe facial pain? Nashville singer-songwriter JP Ruggieri decided to find out.

Tormented by severe facial pain, neurobiologist Hugh Spencer invented a nonsurgical way to relieve his trigeminal neuralgia. He found the remedy—capsaicin—inside a canister of pepper spray.

After getting ambushed outside his home, gunshot survivor Jeff Droke confronts two major dilemmas: chronic pain and a faulty justice system.

An ambush in suburbia. Eight shots. And a survivor who refused to be a victim.

Stay tuned for a new season of Painopolis! It’s a podcast for people with chronic pain. And also for everybody else.

Rather than rely just on meds, Alexander Tressor created a health regimen that keeps his Parkinson’s pain at bay—and keeps him fitter than most men half his age.

Sick of overpaying for your prescription meds? GoodRx offers online comparison-shopping and discounts to get you the best pill deals in town.

ClinicalTrials.gov can help you find pain-fighting treatments so new that your doctor may not even know about them.

Her medical career halted by chronic pain, Shannon Stocker gambled on a powerful anesthetic, a five-day coma, and a do-or-die medical-tourism journey to Mexico.

Has your doctor accepted payments and perks from drug and medical-device makers? Dollars for Docs can give you the answer.

Meet the Florida stockbroker with chronic pain who talked the U.S. government into supplying him with free, legal medical marijuana for the last 34 years.

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?

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.

Our intrepid journalist travels to an innovative pelvic-pain clinic. It’s a big gamble, because if the clinic’s approach fails to work, he’s got no plan B.

Painopolis editor David Sharp outs himself as a chronic-pain sufferer and recalls the unforgettable day his ass spontaneously imploded.

Still using the big kahuna of search engines to answer crucial medical questions? That’s because you haven’t tried PubMed.gov.

The biggest secret of John F. Kennedy’s presidency wasn’t his sex life. It was his crippling chronic pain and his covert ways of treating it.