I’ve had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) for 32 years. I was 24 when I first became ill with it after contracting a virus of some sort while teaching high school in East Salinas, California – just east of Monterey Bay. The students I taught were the children of...
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We also hypothesize that migraine may be attributable to a reactivation of a latent HSV residing within the trigeminal ganglion. The authors She was a healthy 21-year-old white college student who woke up one morning to a “scintillating scotoma”, a visual...
“For now, they (the new drugs) look fantastic. They shake the ground under our feet. They will change the way we treat migraine.” Dr. Stewart J. Tepper, a professor of neurology at Dartmouth College In many ways, migraine is in the same basket as fibromyalgia (FM) and...
The Montreal ME/CFS Conference: Pt I I thought I was in Paris, so much French was being spoken. The conversations in the cafes, on the streets, in the subways – everywhere – were in French. It turns out that with its 4,000,000 plus residents, Montreal is...
Hormones? Certainly the nervous system plays a major role in producing pain. The immune system with its inflammatory processes and ability to create sickness behavior is certainly in the discussion, but hormones? Many women are well aware that hormonal fluctuations...
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