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

That’s because we bring you stories about ordinary people who’ve grappled with extraordinary pain. And now that they’re on the other side of it, they want to pass along their insights and strategies to you.

“We bring you stories about ordinary people who’ve grappled with extraordinary pain. And now that they’re on the other side of it, they want to pass along their insights and strategies to you.”

And boy, do they reveal all. How they moved from Healthy to Unwell—and back again. Their treatments. Their medical expenses. And exactly what kept them on their roads to recovery!

I mean, these life-and-death stories will have you riveted. For example:

• You’ll hear from a retired high school science teacher and longtime chimney sweep who had a life-altering brush with disaster, falling 18 feet and breaking 19 bones. You’ll see how his lifelong spirit of experimentation led to using virtual reality to ratchet down his flare-ups and get off opioids.

• We’ll tell you about a wildlife biologist whose ticking time bomb of chronic ailments was set off by a creature as small as a poppy seed. You’ll root for her as she moves from being bedridden with Lyme disease to hiking the Pacific Crest Trail!

• You’ll meet a muscle-popping Memphis accountant who wrestled professionally on weekends until a hit man ambushed him and shot him eight times in his head, neck and chest. You’ll find out how he got a grip on gunshot-related chronic pain that popped up 11 years after the shooting.

• And you’ll marvel at how a neurobiologist who lives in a remote part of Australia DIYed a cure for his unbearable facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia. Through trial and error, he figured out how to eliminate his torment—in just one week!

At painopolis.com, you’ll find these inspiring stories of resilience—and much, much more.

Brace yourself to be moved.

Painopolis. Relentlessly in search of what works, one defiant story at a time.

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