With regards to research funding, infrastructure development, creativity and sheer energy - there's no doubt that the smaller ME/CFS community is far ahead of the much larger fibromyalgia community. The question is why and what can be done to unleash the FM community's vast resources.
The failure of the BACE drugs has some drug companies looking for ways to reduce neuroinflammation - which appears to be present in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
It’s only been a month – but what a month it has been for Liz. Liz hasn’t had the easiest time of it health-wise. A longtime migraineur and fibromyalgia patient, Liz has had to endure a bucketload of mostly immune health problems that have probably stemmed from a...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), with its pitiful funding, has been a thorn in the ME/CFS community’s side for decades. For decades advocates have thrown everything they could – heartbreaking stories, demonstrations, insults – at the NIH in...
Dominic asks whether the complex neuroendocrine issues found in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and prolonged critical illness require a more complex treatment approach including using thyroid, hydrocortisone, testosterone, etc. together to return the system to normal.
Summary Prolonged or chronic critical illness – a term applied to patients that survive severe injury or infection, but fail to start recovering after a few days – is characterized by low levels of peripheral hormones (including T3, IGF-1, cortisol and testosterone)....
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