Fear and anxiety. I don’t know about you, but since I came down with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/’CFS) / fibromyalgia (FM) it seems like those two states of mind are ever present. Fear that I’m suddenly going to get worse, or will have money...
A Very Exciting Presentation Two years ago, Marcie and Mark Zinn produced what I thought were the two most exciting presentations of a very exciting Stanford Symposium. They had used a technology called qLoretta to analyze EEG findings in a way that hadn’t...
Nobody in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community had taken leptin – a hormone produced by fat cells – seriously, until Jarred Younger’s Stanford Good Day Bad Day study suggested that it might be the factor driving fatigue n ME/CFS. Younger...
Facing major issues with basic tasks such as feeding herself, shopping and cleaning, Kit Kat was in a real bind – until she stumbled upon a federally funded program that paid for a caregiver – whom she chose – to come and help her out every day. Find...
Fibromyalgia/ME/CFS sure feels like it’s in the muscles. After exercise, at least for me, they’ll often feel constricted and painful and muscle stiffness is common. The central “sensitizationists: (look -a new word :)) say those pain sensations are ...
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