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I won't take any antidepressants of the newer variety (SSRI, etc). I tapered off Paxil too fast and it provoked a type of mania (not meeting the threshold of mania, but still very weird and disconcerting to those around me and me, also), according to a shrink I consulted. I have primarily...

I sent an email to Dr. Leslie Arnold asking about the CFS study. She is well-known in the fibro research community, used to work at the U of Michigan and did drug studies on the newer fibro drugs. Edit: She is not associated with U of Michigan. Edit update. Dr. Arnold wrote that she is...

What a waste of resources; an ego trip.

This research in Clinical Rheumatology arrived in my Stork reseach feed this morning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-019-04881-y Is there no end to the fad concept of catastrophizing? Could it be that people with knee osteoarthritis know from experience that stair climbing, above all other...

Replying to myself here, but I looked up Eric Gordon's medical license in California (because I am so adverse to quack docs) and he has a 3 yr. license probation which makes for interesting reading...

This being California (anything that quacks), a local board-certified shrink who sells vitamins on his website, is offering IV ketamine for a host of psych problems (listed: OCD, depression, PTSD, and anything and everything). He also gives talks to physicians about the benefits of ketamine...

I should add that Gordon has participated in a metabolomics research project and is focusing more on research these days, so not all bad (I hope).

First thing, Psychiatry Advisor is a marketing tool. The company compiling it is Haymarket Media https://www.haymarket.com The author of the article has a master's degree in library science, not science or psychology. So, it is not a peer-reviewed medical journal and its content is not of high...

That sounds as bad as the shrink I went to (someone my Dad knew) when I was on the verge of a breakdown. I was 17 or so. I remember him asking whether I had orgasms or not and his mimicking with his hands the actions of the male and female parts, I kid you not. I was not consulting him about...

I think there needs to be an IQ test and higher threshold for prospective PhD psychology students.

How representative were the samples of each country's population? How to compare such disparate groups, cultures? The Spanish cohort were less educated, and more often married and working either part-time or full-time. No wonder they complained more.

Don't you just love the research of the obvious and more confirmatory research of the same? Ditto the symptom of depression when one of us is having a severe crash, or catastrophizing more. Duh. Enough already.

She's my senator; I'll write to thank her and urge more action/funding.

I just can't accept that there is no medical/surgical help for her. I need find out whether she has tried an intrathecal (spinal) device. This, as far I know, is still used for intractable pain and give the patient opioid type drugs or any other useful substances directly into the central...

So sad...and at age 27. I question whether a very talented anaesthesia-pain doc might help her enough for her to question her decision--IV sedation by visiting nurses (expensive) because some of the symptoms can change and lessen as time passes; perhaps there is some adaptation within the...

Indeed, the severity problem, as in the quote about a bad knee. Bad knee? If you have severe fibro, it's not just one, two, or three body parts in pain, it's a screaming type pain all over the body. I think the quality of the research is nil. I wouldn't trust what comes next from the...

or movement (of body). for the brain...able to think.

Well, if the coffee was single origin (one finca) Central American light roast then maybe it was worth it?

Scanning the whole article, I just wonder what the effects of common RA drugs might have on the biome of RA people vs. normal controls. I did not see any mention of that. Or are their diets different? Some are on DMARDs.

FYI: a bit of extraneous detail with my humble apologies I have fibro and I had a partner prior to 2000. He divorced me the same time as I couldn't work anymore. He denied it was because of my illness. I was 50 and he said I just looked old to him. He was 52. He was also having work problems...