Thank you for that...memory of returning in the dead of winter to a northern mid-western city wearing an ancient pair of leather lace up boots...
Sedentary women could have been sedentary prior to onset of FM, or they prefer other movement (dancing, housework) to walking. Also, walking is...
Seems a floundering reason to do a study. What thoughts/hypotheses provoked such a study?. The top risk factors for hospitalization in the general...
I like "Finding a health professional who accepts and understands post-viral illness is akin to tracking down a unicorn with a medical degree."
The only thing that interests me would be some genetic link between FM and metabolic syndrome and the study doesn't point toward that.
My understanding is that FM has not been shown to be an inflammatory rheumatic disease and that CRP levels are not abnormal. Also, these blood...
Simplistic, reductionist. Though interesting to learn the term cognitive fusion/defusion (dare I say: confusion?). What affects walking (for me)...
I had numbness in face on one side only several hours post first Pfizer jab. Then squiggly retinal discharges---eye doc says it was a migraine (my...
Unfortunate head injury, left the practice of medicine, re-fashioning her career? Only a supposition. A fictional attempt at explaining the ass...
My son seems* to have it, too. Congestion! weird stabbing head pain! Since it's the USA, there's nowhere open *to test, no tests available at...
S Could be she dropped out of medicine to take on this junk writing gig. So superficial and false.
Yeah, whenever anyone is complaining *too much about their pain, they are catastrophizing. Also, when it interferes with life, it is deemed...
I am going to deem the term "pain catastrophizing" in reports, from now on, as "increased pain level." Therefore, it does makes sense that...
They want to dismantle the personality and experiences and memory of each unique individual and then reassemble said humans into how and what they...
I would hypothesize that people with FM strive to be as physically active as they can tolerate and that activity level for which they strive is...
Another gene polymorphisms of COMT study, same ideas https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21130573/
My rheumatologist back in 1996 told me "use heat, heat, heat" for my newly diagnosed FM. True today. Lie or sit back on heating pad to upper body...
The comparison between domestic violence people and those who did not suffer that are only AGE-matched, not socio-economic/health/education...
After a cursory reading of this study of rTMS safety issues, I would not be a guinea pig....
Bah, it's a preprint. Not peer-reviewed. So, hogwash?!
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