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Walking is strongly encouraged for knee arthritis (up to a point, that pain shouldn't continue after the two-hour point post walking). This activity stimulates synovial fluid lubricating the joint, the light pounding or weight bearing of walking stimulates fluid release. I have found that my...

No treatments for FM "work" so let's just throw CBT paint on the wall and interpret the splotches. That's the gist of most so-called research or review articles about FM, and I suspect about ME and a peck of other diagnoses. Sure, if you're down on yourself, get the gist of the negative...

The authors used only one questionnaire (RAND SF-36, the short form health survery) to assess FM people at three time points. I doubt then that the questionnaire captured the panic and heightened anxiety felt by all during the pandemic. Though it could be there was some feeling that "now...

In my n=1 experience of FM, walking causes fatigue. It is not a panacea for pain. It can lift mood. Or it can worsen pain. All depends. What is their meaning of 'rumination' in this hodge-podge of variables thrown into a statistical soup? They don't say. Is it pain thoughts, general anxiety...

In the very brief report of a type of multi-factor intervention of 35 patients (drop out number?) that has been in use for at least twenty years for FM and chronic pain patients. The patients were assigned to the treatment group or the control group based on whether they could attend the weekly...

Authors are from the department of psychiatry. Surprise, surprise.

I think first of all the researchers need to determine the medicinal chemistry of the Chinese medicine before they dive into the diagnostic hay pile. What are the molecular compounds involved? If there are some tradional medicines that are beneficial, that's great. Where is the quality control...

Unfortunate pseudo-science piece taking advantage of FM (etiology unknown) to make hyperbolic, unsubstantiated claims regarding causation resulting in FM due to unrelated medical occurrences such as pre-existing joint hypermobilty, Covid infection, ANA positivity (present in non-SARDS* people at...

I would like to see the oil companies and chemical companies responsible for plastic manufacturing be regulated first by reducing the number of unrecylcable plastics to a small number of recyclable ones. Why do we need so many different grades/types of plastic wrap for example. I grew up with...

I had 3x a week interactions (3-4 hrs on average per day's session) for twenty years with hemodialysis patients. They all complained of fatigue at EVERY session, except perhaps for those in their early twenties, who from time to time had energy to enjoy parts of regular life. The lack of renal...

I wish calcium would work for me, but they are something I take all the time per osteopenia. Can't do any action repetitively but do I learn from my mistakes? It's typical of FM (fibromyalgia) I think. Things get wacked out pretty easily.

A week after my sesame oil laptop spill I drove to the repair place. Result: too expensive to maybe fix. i bought one of their HP plug in keyboards and I'm good for now. I'll keep the laptop on the table in front of the couch to slouch and read while on heating pad. When I need to lie down, I...

Wow, so many ideas and so much variability. For simplicity's sake and because I don't feel my living quarters are stable (heat and fires and noise), I think I will ponder the possibilities a bit more. Perhaps I could change my bad laptop behavior. And get another lightweight one, perhaps a 17...

I am lucky not to have to spend the majority of my day lying down. I usually sit back on a comfortable couch with heating pad to read online, and later in the day need to recline on said heating pad for several hours to read more online to watch video. But I have destroyed two laptops due to...

How I love the discussion section: "...However, our results should be interpreted with caution since, first of all, defining symptoms as sequelae 6 months after infection should be done with great caution. Some symptoms are frequent in the dialysis population and could be part of the natural...

From the preprint: "Positive affectivity is reduced in FM (Finan et al., 2009; Galvez-Sánchez et al., 2018), which is associated with higher levels of loneliness and less enjoyment of interpersonal events (Wolf and Davis, 2014). In this context, FM sufferers less able to adjust to environmental...

Having to document, wear a device, and pay attention to the study, all takes away from the joy (sometimes) of being able to walk and walking. This "study" seems much ado about nothing. Walking, if all you have is a crowded and noisy street, is no joy. The researchers tear their hair out with...

Attention to avoiding FODMAPS in the diet can improve IBS symptoms a lot.

I use a sterile vaseline overnight eye ointment as told by eye doc. Seems to help in general, though I still have to put in saline drops an hour or so after taking a medication that dries out the eye (in this case a muscle relaxant).

I think there should be more rigorous testing to get into universities, and then even more stringent testing for graduate school, although this would empty out psychology departments. Perhaps, and only perhaps, there would be less of this type of 'research.'