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"SARS-CoV-2 is linked to “an unusually high level of ‘indiscriminate’ killing of T cells,”6 says Leitner, adding that this observation is “reminiscent of” measles, which can cause immune amnesia by depleting memory B cells (a different type of immune cell), leaving people vulnerable to pathogens...

Published trial results from 2023: https://acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr.25142 2025 published trial results (PDF available): https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pm/pnaf089/8193722

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02589275?cond=Fibromyalgia&term=Fibromyalgia%20Syndrome&intr=cyclobenzaprine%20hydrochloride&rank=3&tab=table I'm not sure how to evaluate the current trial since it is open label, fewer research subjects than ones in two previous trials (which were...

Tonix investor conference call audio (recorded from today's broadcast about Tonmya): https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/gsey5g7m I'll check with clinical trials.gov and see if any publication of trial details exists. It's a sleep architecture agent by increasing Stage 4 or deep sleep, where...

The usual suspects in PR for traditional Chinese medicine, but guess what, a little chicken soup works best.

This is why I applied to my state's vocational rehab program before applying for social security disability: to try to find something I could do. I found a counselor there who used to work for social security disability and he showed me how to word my application for disability. That is what I...

Send Americans with FM to Costa Rica. (I've never been there.) Nicoya Peninsula is a blue zone. Slow forest bathing with sloth sightings promised, maybe tree climbing involved if sloths permit closer contact. Just to say that flying at altitude in a plane--it's freezing cold. Opioids needed...

Oh dear. If I had to go to my park with a group, plus an instructor telling us all to listen and open our minds and assorted milque-toast mindlessness dogma, well actually I have done this. I went to a forest bathing session eons ago. It was irritating in that I wanted the intructor to be...

Of course, I am interested in any promising FM therapy after 30 years of the condition. But there has to be a study performed to convince other scientists or doctors that the intervention warrants further study; professionals in related fields have to get fired up about it. However, here there...

Just wanted to tell you @Hoopoe that I found the work world a pain in the b***. Expanding your self-concept toward a career-type of activity is something you may have missed out on in your teens and twenties. I don't think recapturing lost years is possible, but fashioning some sort of...

I found a meta-analysis on Pub-Med by searching for sleep apnea and fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia in obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38831795/ Results: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria. This study...

Sited in the post 7/20/25 @nataliezzz is Sleep-disordered breathing among women with fibromyalgia syndrome (Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, 2006) https://journals.lww.com/jclinrheum/abstract/2006/12000/sleep_disordered_breathing_among_women_with.4.aspx Full-text is pay-walled. Results...

I, too, got excited when I read the title---at last--a promise of pain relief. I guess if one can't move and are stuck to the bed or couch and in severe pain, the VR is a good thing. I know it's been studied and used for PTSD veterans to relive their traumas over and over until the stimuli...

In the US, a high school diploma is essential for a lot of jobs. I went to college early and skipped two years of high school, but I found I needed the diploma and I took an exam for it. Just like getting your driver's license, do you think catching up with life by getting the diploma somehow...

In the US, we have certified in-person translators for the court system and on-call medical translators but probably that's via phone access, so no need to be in-person. I don't know how much education one needs, you'd have to check. Could you see what your local/regional government offers for...

Well, don't expect a vaccine to come out of the USA---any vaccine.

Uh-hem. If I don't have the protective mechanism software running in my head all the time, I am likely to, for instance, vacuum the whole apartment and have my usual sites of upper back pain rise from 5/10 to 7/10 for TWO WEEKS which brings a cascade of other anti-pain measures I have to...

According to the Bateman Center's new clinician manual for ME/CFS, etc., the cortisol in ME is low or lacks the diurnal variation curve. See page 9 here...

Another false statement in this "research" paper (First being that FM is hard to diagnose): That recovery and improvement from FM are possible. Recovery, no. It is lifelong (chronic). That has been established fact by rheumatologists thousands (5000 for Dr. Robert Bennett of Oregon Health...

Upper airway resistance as the cause of damn near everything is a "homeopathic hypothesis" in that the effects of miniscule airway resistance measurements do not, and cannot account for clinically relevant underpinnings for FM, ME, etc. That being said, I posted the emboldened phrase to the...