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Came across this article in Journal of Practical Pain Management https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/psychological/pain-catastrophizing-what-practitioners-need-know Very fuzzy non-definition of what pain catastrophizing might be. Of course, the so-called professional (a health...

Excited by this!

Not sure that anything definitive will come of this research, but it's worth a try. How to control variables that aren't in the treatment itself (life events, seasonal changes, etc.). Will they be looking at people who have had every available treatment and for whom nothing has worked? They are...

CBT= Could Be Tripe Do y'all have other meanings for this meaningless acronym?

One of the features of Major Depressive Disorder is a lack of movement. These patients stay in bed, stay at home. No big news, for sure.

I've experienced pain castastrophizing with fibro pain. During a severe flare up of pain, yes, pain dictates mood and the mood is rather extreme due to the pain being extreme. But my mood brightens when the pain lessens and mood returns to baseline when the flare resolves (though a residual...

The pattern of cortisol secretion is altered in fibromyalgia. Normally it should be higher in the morning but in FMS, it's not. Certain cytokines are pro-inflammatory; others are anti-inflammatory (ILs 4, 10, 13). But the whole premise is sketchy.

Limitations of the study: participants have self-reported diagnoses (not confirmed by professionals). The study admits that self-report of compliance measures (of exercise, diet, meds, etc.) is "somewhat reliable." Not a representative sample. Also, the sample is self-selected (includes...

Question the 11 week interval between the assays of cortisol and interleukins. Do individual subjects have the same levels of interleukins and cortisol generally throughout weeks and months? For instance: research on the effect of exercise on cytokines in ME: the chemicals are tested just...

I think this guy is suffering from functionally- low IQ disorder. And FLID is not a complex symptom. Sadly, only a diagnostic marker(s) for ME will make the shrinks abandon their pseudo-science, their one trick pony, their it's-all-in-your-mind obsession. There should be a pathology named this...

Maddening. May those psychs and shrinks or their loved ones get one of our illnesses. Then let's talk. Until then, trust what the patient says. Reminds me of my new primary doc. I describe my pain (thus justifying the drugs that enhance GABA, including one low-dose opioid). To which he nods...

You're absolutely right. I got confused. I had assumed in the past that she was diagnosed with CFS, but that came from reading her (for years) articles on About.com on her fatigue issues, no doubt fibro-related. I even looked it up yesterday but became confused today. Ach.

Her articles are many and they are short and generic for the most part. Not very helpful.

Finding some cute little things to be grateful for, sure. Takes about a minute out of your day. How on earth does that spillover, have an effect on pain and fatigue. Common sense, people! Might as well say: don't stub your toe if you help it or bang your elbow. I'll shut it up now... I hate...

My feeling about Kaiser Permanente (from being an RN and a later a member of Kaiser) is that they will espouse anything that saves them money and puts the burden of getting better onto the patient.

Very interesting! Could they be holding back the identity of specifics because of a possible patent on a diagnostic test kit in the future? Or too soon for that...probably.

I can see how the idea of catastrophizing originated: a female patient with fibro, perhaps just recently diagnosed, with overwhelming symptoms of pain-confusion-and the myriad of other associated symptoms, walks into her docs office in tears and wails on about how she can't work, can't sleep...

With fibro and not ME, I don't worrying about showering. Usually. Though I have bouts of vertigo at the mere onset of a cold virus. But I do worry about having an extended (week to months) flare-up where I won't be able to grocery shop due to severe disorientation (driving not possible). Even...

Also, thank the gods, the Sullivan pain-"research" PDF is old and, I hope, out-of-date.