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Are the researchers merely using anger scans because they have them in their possession and found an inverse link? After all, they are affliated with the Veteran's Hospital in LA, where plenty of veterans have PTSD from various wars the US prosecuted. Typically PTSD in veterans is associated...

yeah but, have a neighbor w/lingering covid (three weeks or so) and she cannot not do strenuous yard work all day. Maybe she takes a med that makes her that way, who knows, for depression, or maybe anxiety makes one that way. She told me she cannot sit still and yet suffers from covid...

From what I know about FM and all the reading about it I've done because I have it, these are the prime risk factors: female sex middle-age diagnosis of rheumatologic disorder

Researcher Straud is a long known FM guy. Seems (fMRI) an expensive tool or way to "provide a new method for the evaluation of chronic pain/fatigue mechanism and their response to therapy."

Exactly, @Trish. I remember when that term was born--read about it in coursework for nursing or psych or medical in general. It sounded right and good. Concepts drift (to the lowest common denominator-brain) and pick up all flotsam on their journey. Time for this one to dock permanently and be...

No, I don't think the Centrality of Pain Scale or COPS refers to any central sensitization--neuro-type category. It is a psych scale of how 'central' the chronic pain is to the person's life, as @rvallee just now pointed out. My guess is we'll be seeing more about this instrument, the COPS...

Uh...sounds highly improbable.

I'd really like to increase my activity level with FM. I overdid it recently and had a bad 3-day muscle spasm that spread to half of one leg. I took so much muscle relaxant (and its efficacy wasn't great) that I developed constipation. (this is now the 4th day of gas pains). What is evident to...

Thank you @Jonathan Edwards for that.

A review below about the descending pathway of pain modulation by dopamine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7057207/ From the review just above, these quotes: "However, a recent study reported that although dopamine appears to affect expectations and desires, dopamine changes in...

The lead researcher is from the University of Zurich, department of psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Need I say more? I read parts of the study and was incensed by the theory that we with fibro are not motivated (the dopamine deficit theory). I have been suffering a three-day (so far)...

I'm wondering: omicron is to become endemic, say most all, but what if and when another powerful variant comes along...will it/could it displace the endemic omicron, do you think? Probably no one can foretell.

thanks for that. Guess that's why I residually love trees so much.

I think it best to go back walking on all-fours and relieve the fascinating researchers of their subject matter.

I have a smaller optic nerve on one side. And history of having increased ocular pressure during menopause years, which reverted to normal pressures. Guess I won't be doing a trial of pregabalin anytime soon. I tried gabapentine, did nothing but make me dizzy and I'm already blonde (or...

I am not fond of the first author (Frederick Wolfe) of the referenced study above. Here is another paper he contributed to: (re: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Body Distress Syndrome and Fibromyalgia) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32305723/ For the record, Frederick Wolfe decried giving PwFM that...

Wow, resistance exercises, especially in the upper body. As person with moderate to severe FM, I could NEVER participate. I have tried too many times, making myself worse for a week or more. Exercise is NOT the first option of treatment though that meme has been forced down doctors' throats...

A huge chunk of a doctor's job is to show compassion. Or at least interest. Bedside manner. The relationship counts. That said, if the doctor finds being compassionate a problem, then he/she needs to make the time to yell and scream at the squash ball or punch pillows (and call patients names...

The FIQ and later revised of FIQ-R (fibromyalgia impact questionnaire) was developed at OHSC (univ of oregon health science center) by the group led by London-trained rheumatologist, Dr. Robert Bennett, recently deceased, a compassionate and excellent scientist/clinician who discovered the low...

Some researchers (a relative term) have built their careers developing 'valid' instruments (like the Chalder fatigue scale, the FIQ {fibro impact questionnaire) that are 'validated' to be accurate no matter who administers the test, or who the patient is. One problem is that the instrument is...