I dropped out (never sent in specimens) out of Harvard's Nurses Health Study of gut microbiome in a cohort of nurses. They did have a dietary...
Once again this illustrates the psych researchers world: feeling superior to sufferers and lacking empathy and well as IQ. This is why I can't...
I have moderate-sever fibro with a mild level of PEM (30-35% normal function), probably no ME/CFS diagnosis because I lack the immunologic...
Small retrospective study. No double-blind placebo control. And what is the hypothesis (if any) for a beneficial outcome? What would the theory...
I was prescribed Risperdal, an anti-psychotic, for a sub-mania condition which was due to, a shrink told me, probably a reaction to tapering too...
A bit more detail about Aptinyx...
I like how she wrote of how the pain is different in MS and in Fibro.
Yeah, I've got my eye on this drug development for fibro. But who knows. Phase II is just a small human sample trying to get the dosage right....
anger ruminations in fibromyalgia https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pmh.1445 My personal experience with fibro is that the pain is...
I ain't no scientist, but I know from experience that the brain runs on glucose. And the brain's in charge of everything, so I need a certain carb...
Here's some info about the 2016 changes: https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/2016-revisions-to-the-20102011-fibromyalgia-diagnostic-criteria/ And...
I hate spending two hours trying to decipher why bogus science is bogus.
Parsing it down: Pappollo proposes that insulin resistance causes fibromyalgia. That metformin is highly effective in reducing fibromyalgia pain....
My critique of this study: Nowhere does it mention how long each participant has had fibro. The longer one has it, the less likely one is to be...
I'm reading about it now and it's like CBT crossed with mindfulness. Kind of a rehash. Really can't see how it can be therapeutic for ME/CFS....
Couple of points of reference about the concept of psychological flexibility. However, I fear it's widespread use and waste of research dollars....
I came across this https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-a0035623.pdf It's about CBT and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in...
CBT was originally developed by David Burns to treat self-defeating thoughts in depression. Interesting and probably useful. Then in 2005 or so,...
Interesting about: increased level of oxygen (but by how much, it's not a hyperbariac oxygen chamber--that, is another Israeli research study on...
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