An Immune Disease? Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Fibromyalgia Study Suggests FM Has Inflammatory Side
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
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...
On Your Marks GETSET: Don’t Go – Major Graded Exercise ME/CFS Trial Underwhelms (Again)
The Lancet — one of the most highly regarded journals in the world — is back on the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community’s front page. That’s probably enough to either elicit curses from ME/CFS patients or to produce a strong desire to...
The Evolution of a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Researcher? CBT Proponent Calls for More Herpesvirus Research
Bruun Wyller’s belief that maladaptive behaviors help to perpetuate ME/CFS has raised a lot of hackles over the years. He’s been singing a different tune lately, however. Wyller recently proposed that herpesviruses contribute to ME/CFS and plans to examine...
Getting Clear on Ketogenic Diets (for Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS): A Review
Keto Un-Clarity I thought that I MUST be in ketosis. I was eating lots of fat, lots of protein and cheating only intermittently. I’d been doing my version of a ketogenic diet for about nine months. It wasn’t as if I’d prepared for it. I didn’t...StudyME
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