Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

Huge “All of Us” NIH Initiative Offers Possibilities for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia

by Cort Johnson | Apr 24, 2018 | 13 Comments

“It will be transformative.” Francis Collins Neither chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or fibromyalgia (FM) exactly feel welcome at the NIH. Funding for both diseases is pitiful, but a program has just opened up which welcomes everyone's participation. A top Harvard...

Pain, Genes, Drugs and You: How Your Genetic Makeup May Be Keeping You in Pain

by Cort Johnson | Apr 20, 2018 | 14 Comments

From Dr. Trescott's lecture given to the Physician Partners of America: "Your Genes, Your Pain Drugs and You Or "Why Every Pain Physician Should be Testing Your Genes" When the patient says, “This doesn’t work,” or, “I’ve been too sensitive,” or, “My mother had a...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – It’s Worse than Multiple Sclerosis – and Fibromyalgia is No Walk in the Park Either

by Cort Johnson | Apr 16, 2018 | 62 Comments

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a dreaded disease. About ten years into having chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), I still remember being tested for it and how thankful I was that I didn't have it. MS does things to people that ME/CFS doesn't. For one thing, it kills more...

Keeping Up With Bob! Bob Naviaux’s Predicting Autism Risk Study

by Cort Johnson | Apr 13, 2018 | 2 Comments

Many people know of Bob Naviaux's work on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but long before Naviaux came to ME/CFS, he was working on autism. As you read about Naviaux's exciting new work on autism, ask yourself whether it might be applied to ME/CFS as well. Health...

Leonard Jason Wants You! (To Tell Him About Your PEM)

by Cort Johnson | Apr 11, 2018 | 12 Comments

Leonard Jason, ME/CFS's foremost epidemiologist and researcher/advocate requests that you tell him what the heck happens when you engage in physical and cognitive exertion. The survey grew out of extensive discussions with the patient community during the public...

The Opioid Painkiller Crackdown’s Silver Lining for Fibromyalgia: The Heal Initiative

by Cort Johnson | Apr 9, 2018 | 16 Comments

Opioid Painkiller Crackdown The news regarding opioids has been mostly bad for fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) patients. Restrictions on opioid pain killers could put these medications at risk for FM patients battling one of the most painful...

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