Research proposals concerning systemic inflammation were axed at the NIH, due to the word "systemic" (on the list) because it sounds a bit like...
I've taken trazodone every night for 20 years for FM fragmented sleep problems (sucessfully, mostly). I use the 50mg dose. Many drugs have a...
Too bad each randomized group can't be rotated through all four arms of the trial.
Paul Offit (pediatrician/vaccine advisory board member-ACIP) wrote a substack email delineating RFK2's support of the very antiquated miasma...
From the Introduction: "Chronic psychosocial distress is known to be the only etiological and/or aggravating factor of these conditions (Barke,...
Heavy on the psych in the afternoon schedule. Most speakers are Italian researchers. At least there isn't the Hauser or Woolf contigent that...
I find by Wednesday of each week I need a refuge from what's happening in the US. The situation is here is bizarre and frightening, so reading...
My take on the difference between FM and ME is personal. I was diagnosed with FM and the rheumatologist added a CFS diagnosis to my chart because...
Perhaps a trial with subjects wearing Virtual Reality goggles while doing Tai-Chi, receiving massage, fed chocolate, followed by a hot bath...
Fibromyalgia was termed Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) back decades. Why it's bumped down in the pecking order to functional is beyond me. Another...
This rehash research paper feels like it was written in 2001. The ups and downs of how much FM is considered real varies by the half-decade. The...
I was exposed to the concept in nursing school in 1981 as though it was "the answer" to root causes of ill health. What vexes me is the huge...
How very convenient for the medical practitioners to have a garbage dump for somewhat hard to describe conditions, conditions that cause...
Foreward by Ed Yong. Supported by a grant by National Science Foundation (US).
Yes, worth the long read. Good comments section though some commenters are convinced that mind cures pain. Oh woo. I felt compelled to comment...
Yes, household bleach (the approximate dilution depends on the percentage of chlorine in the product, some vary but you can add a tad more bleach...
Having had 4 bouts of likely noro virus caused gastroenteritis in one year's span I will go to these lengths: I am going to wear gloves going...
Another Israeli paper about mortality in FM, a review and meta-analysis: (it states suicide, accidents and infections are higher than normal...
Hard to know how much the results were because of FM patients' higher BMI and much higher rates of smoking and being more sedentary, in addition...
As a former hemodialysis nurse, I can attest to the depression and fatigue and some pain in that population, most but not all. Here "enrolled 160...
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