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“As a patient, I want an answer,” she says. “I want to figure out this.”

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Janjic’s path to this research began in 2010. She has a doctorate in medicinal chemistry, and she had canada goose outlet factory recently moved to Duquesne University where she canada goose premium outlet had set up a lab focused on using nanomedicine techniques to treat cancer.

What seemed like out of nowhere, of the blue, she started to suffer bouts of severe pain.

“The one that hit me real hard was the whole body, from head to toe,” she says. “I’ve canada goose outlet las vegas had on and off chronic pain since I was goose outlet canada a teenager, but this was different.”

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The doctors’ diagnosis was discouraging. They told her she had a chronic pain syndrome. They said there wasn’t much they could do canada goose uk site about it, and they said it was for life.

The medicines they gave her helped with the pain somewhat, but left her feeling like she was canada goose outlet black friday living in a fog. She was having trouble remembering things, trouble taking notes.

buy canada goose jacket “Things were weird. So I decided I am going to do research on myself,” Janjic says. buy canada goose jacket

To control her own pain, she turned to mindfulness meditation and other non medical interventions, including composing music and playing the piano. It’s not as if the pain magically went away, she says, but she was able to carry on with her life. Some days were worse than others.

But she https://www.canadagoose-jackets-online.com also wanted to find a medical solution.

buy canada goose jacket cheap She made one important treatment decision early on: She didn’t want to take opioids for her pain. buy canada goose jacket cheap

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Looking for alternatives to opioids, she dove into the scientific literature, to learn all canada goose outlet winnipeg address she could about chronic pain.

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cheap Canada Goose In addition to her research, Janjic started paying close attention to her own condition. cheap Canada Goose

“I started to understand that my body was actually inflamed,” she says.

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Janjic also noticed something important about her pain: it varied both in intensity and in location. Sometimes it was in her knees, sometimes in her shoulders.

She says none of the medicines available today responded to pain’s “diversity within the body.”

“I [started] to understand the fluctuation,” she says.

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canada goose clearance sale Before she got into pain research, Janjic was working on something called cancer nanomedicine. Cancer nanomedicines work by putting anti cancer drugs into tiny containers called nanoparticles, and then injecting them into cancer patients, where they enter the patients’ immune cells. canada goose clearance sale

canada goose black friday sale “So what did I already know how to do? Mess with the immune system with nanomedicines,” Janjic says. “And that’s how the idea of pain nanomedicine was born.” canada goose black friday sale

After many years of tinkering, she’s started to get positive results. In a recently published study, she showed that when researchers put a nonsteroidal, anti inflammatory drug into a nanoparticle, and then injected that into a rat, it reduced the rat’s pain.