by Cort Johnson | Dec 12, 2018 | Allodynia, Autoimmune, Brain, Gut, Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage, Ivabradine, IVIG, Migraine, Prefrontal Cortex
It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they’re a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it’s... 
by Cort Johnson | May 21, 2018 | Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage, Migraine, Pridgen, Treatment
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... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 11, 2016 | Brain, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Hypoxia, Migraine, Research
Migraine effects 12% of the population (!) or about 40 million people. Two studies suggest as many as 75% of people with chronic fatigue syndrome experience migraines and that most migraines in ME/CFS are undiagnosed. A recent large fibromyalgia study suggested... 
by Cort Johnson | May 31, 2015 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Migraine, Nimodipine, Treatment
There’s something about migraines and fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Migraines aren’t usually talked about as major comorbid disorders with these diseases but recent studies suggest, however, that migraine may be one of the most, if not the... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 27, 2014 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Insula, Migraine, Stimuli-hypersensitivity
“If we lose sight of pleasures … that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we’ve lost a lot.” – Savannah Page Researchers have used heat, electricity, chemicals, and pressure to evoke pain in FM... 
by Cort Johnson | Aug 9, 2013 | Brain, Brainstem, Hypoxia, Migraine, Stimuli-hypersensitivity
“This indicates a large unmet need to diagnose and treat migraine in GWI and CFS” Could chronic fatigue syndrome be a form of migraine? That might not be so wacky an idea as it sounds. About ten years ago Puri and Chaudhuri suggested chronic fatigue...
