Could the microvascular system – the small capillaries and the red blood cells that run through them – hold the key to energy problems in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and perhaps fibromyalgia? The idea that the blood delivery system – not some...
From Top Down to Bottoms Up In Fibromyalgia For the past decade or so research evidence has suggested that fibromyalgia is more a brain disorder than a body disorder. Studies indicating increased substance P levels, increased activity in the pain sensing and decreased...
When Dr. DeMeirleir first sees a person with chronic fatigue syndrome they often have cold hands, cold feet and low blood pressure – even in people who are overweight – which is, as he put it…’highly abnormal’ and their heart rates are...
Simply being in pain gives your ability to think a hit. The cognitive and pain problems people with fibromyalgia experience appear to be associated with a sluggish autonomic nervous system. Despite being ‘on’ most of the time the autonomic nervous system...
The Pain of Exercise Chronic fatigue syndrome is not the only disorder featuring post-exertional malaise. Widespread pain may be fibromyalgia’s main symptom but exercise problems, while not as severe as found in ME/CFS, are common. Most studies suggest that...
