Re: Rosie lashes out about Paula and AI...

Actually, Paula is on something. It's called painkillers. Paula has a serious disease and is in pain all of the time.

American Idol judge Paula Abdul has come forward to say she has been battling an obscure, difficult-to-diagnose pain syndrome for the past 25 years. That publicity has raised hopes that the condition, called complex regional pain syndrome, may finally get the medical recognition it deserves.


For reasons that are unclear, the syndrome affects women twice as often as it does men, says Joshua Prager of the Center for Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes at UCLA.

Doctors don't yet know why it happens, and they don't know why it happens to some people and not others. What they do know is that early and aggressive treatment — within the first three months — is the key to stopping it.

Treatments include anesthesia injections to block the sympathetic nervous system and, in extreme cases, insertion of a catheter so continuous doses of anesthesia can be administered. For some patients, electrical stimulators are implanted in their spines to block the pain.

Re: Rosie lashes out about Paula and AI...

Posted by DaniRella

As far as the judges going over board? IDK, I think they do but at the same time these kids know what they are in for when they sign up for this b/c the judges are famous for doing it in the past-- does it make it right? Not really but at the same time it's a choice to audition and people love to watch.