The eighth in Health Rising’s recent recovery story series brings yet another slant on recovery. We’ve had fast recoveries where someone found “the thing” (Melissa’s spinal patch, Rachel and Adam’s vaccines) that quickly turned...
In her last blog, Melissa reported that her symptoms were greatly improved by a spinal patch. She returns with a new blog on high intracranial pressure, and ME/CFS/FM and long COVID. This is a post on intracranial pressure and its effect on many illnesses and their...
Shingles Shingles – the word sends a chill through me. I was introduced to shingles through my grandfather’s wife, Ethel. With her Scottish brogue and her lively personality, she was a great addition to our family after my grandmother died. She and my...
Osteoporosis You could have blown me over with a feather. Osteoporosis and fibromyalgia? What in the world could a chronic pain condition have in common with a low bone density condition? Quite a bit, it turns out. Osteoporosis refers to reduced bone density, which...
“MAJOR ARTICLE” It was good to see a study from a major medical university exploring exercise capacity in long COVID and appearing in a prominent medical journal. The Journal of Infectious Diseases gave it the headline “MAJOR ARTICLE”. It came...
The kind of project that the RECOVER Long COVID Initiative is, with its massive funding, is beginning to emerge. It appears to be a slow-moving, highly conservative effort that is putting a premium on delivering reproducible results but which thus far lacks creativity...
