More is Not Better: Increased Small Nerve Fiber Problems in Fibromyalgia Spell Trouble
Some studies a field waits for - and this is one. The past nerve fiber studies in fibromyalgia (FM) have tended to be small and use different methods and criteria - making it difficult to be clear about the extent of the problem. When a field gets to a certain point,...
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Is the Brain Causing the Small Fiber Neuropathy in Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS?)
It seemed ever so clear. The reduction in the number of small nerves in the skin and eyes of roughly forty percent or so of the people with fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) must bring the body - as opposed to the brain - into play. How could...
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A Message of Strength and Hope From Whitney Dafoe on Severe ME Day
Everything can change in a moment... You never know what will happen in the future. Never stop fighting. I'm fighting with you. Whitney Dafoe This is the 7th Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Day of Understanding and Remembrance - a day which marks the birthday of...
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New Hub of ME/CFS Research Opens at Harvard Plus the “Hidden Gem” and New Insights
"We're on the job and we intend to provide a resource for the community that will really move things forward". Ron Tompkins Times are changing. The Stanford area with its bevy of researchers and doctors (Ron Davis, Robert Phair, Mark Davis, David Kaufman, Bela Chedda,...
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Rewiring the Brain to Get Out of Pain: the Moskowitz Approach
The idea that the brain is plastic in the sense of changeable, adaptable, malleable is, I've come to believe, the single most important change to our understanding of the human brain in 400 years. Norman Doidge The Bay Area Medical Associates in Sausalito, California...
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A College Dropout Cures Himself: Could Doug Lindsay’s Story Inform ME/CFS?
Who better to write this piece "This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself" than Ryan Prior - who himself recovered from a debilitating mysterious disease. Doug Lindsay's story is so powerful because anyone struggling...
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Straight Talk From Carol Head As She Steps Down From Solve ME
ME/CFS Rears Its Head Again A commitment to social justice runs in Carol Head’s blood. She founded a non-profit which has given away millions to support entrepreneurs who work on global poverty, and was a founding board member of another non-profit that tells the...
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The Relevance of Research on Critical Illnesses for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS: A vicious cycle between cytokines, oxidative stress and thyroid hormones
This is the third of a series of posts on non-thyroidal illness syndrome, NTIS - a pattern of altered thyroid hormone activity often present in severe trauma and critical illness. A recent study suggests NTIS may be present in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) as well...
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The Suffering of One is the Suffering of All: Pt V – Remorseful Survivor: Kyle Finds An Answer
Talk about survivor’s remorse. To this day, I still can’t come to terms with a world in which Jarret and Dan are cut down in their prime, while I continue on. That will never make sense to me. Not now. Not ever. It’s not worth concealing either. I feel guilt that I’m...
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