Migraine, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia – Low Oxygen, High Lactate Disorders?
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...
Brian Walitt and the Psychosomaticism of Fibromyalgia: Another Look
Brian Walitt’s belief that ME/CFS and FM are psychosomatic disorder rests on one idea – that cognitive problems found in them don’t mean beans in the real world. Walitt’s recent paper testing that idea left one wondering, however, who’s...
CDC Slams Opioid Drug Use for Chronic Pain In New Guidelines
Citing statistics indicating that 40 people die every day in the U.S. from prescription pain killer overdose, CDC director Tom Frieden bluntly called for doctors to stop over prescribing the drugs. The CDC’s voluntary guidelines called for opioid pain killers...
More Than Skin-Deep: The Small Nerve Fiber Problems in Fibromyalgia – A Review
We don’t generally connect fibromyalgia with skin problems. The skin, though, may present an important window into what’s going on in fibromyalgia. We use the blood vessels and sweat glands in our skin to warm or cool us. Both blood flows and sweat glands...Fibromyalgia: A Very Different Disease
Fibromyalgia recently went toe to toe with some heavyweight diseases at an Isreali hospital. The researchers asked the patients of about 20 different rheumatic diseases to describe their pain, fatigue and functional levels. Then they stacked them up against each...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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