Finding Answers for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia

Global Pain, Fibromyalgia and the Insula – Ground Zero for Pain and Stimuli Issues in FM?

by Cort Johnson | Jul 27, 2017 | 12 Comments

The “Global Pain” Diseases There are two kinds of “pain” in fibromyalgia. There’s a more ordinary kind of pain – the burning, stabbing, aching, etc. usually associated with some type of injury (even though no overt physical injuries...

The Big Fishing Expedition: Report from the NIH’s Intramural Study

by Cort Johnson | Jul 26, 2017 | 1 Comment

The NIH’s Intramural study constitutes the biggest “fishing expedition” ever done in this disease. From stays in metabolic chambers, to ME/CFS patients immune systems being transplanted into mice, to their “brains” (neurons) being grown...

Early Results Suggest Two Radically Different Immune Subsets Present in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)

by Cort Johnson | Jul 15, 2017 | 76 Comments

Subsets, Subsets, Subsets Everyone with ME/CFS who’s been around a bit must ask themselves at some point, “Do I have what she or he has?” Some people do great on treatments that others fail on. Some people get really, really sick while others...

Dr Liptan on Low Dose Naltrexone’s Effectiveness in Fibromyalgia and the “Opiate LDN Quagmire”

by Cort Johnson | Jul 12, 2017 | 21 Comments

“The most effective way to reduce spinal cord inflammation” Dr. Ginerva Liptan Dr. Liptan came to specialize in fibromyalgia after coming down with the disease in medical school. She employs an integrative approach to the disease which includes, as she...

An Immune Disease? Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Fibromyalgia Study Suggests FM Has Inflammatory Side

by Cort Johnson | Jul 10, 2017 | 47 Comments

Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is becoming more and more widely used in fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). You can chart that use right back to Jarred Younger’s two small FM trials in 2009 and 2013. Now Younger’s back with a third trial...

The Big Hurt: Second Major Fibromyalgia Drug in a Year Fails

by Cort Johnson | Jul 8, 2017 | 33 Comments

It wasn’t supposed to go this way. Daiichi Sankyo bet big, big money that it’s safer, more effective version of Lyrica (pregabalin) called Mirogabalin was going to be the next big thing in fibromaylgia (FM). It was so confident that it embarked on a...

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