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...
If Physical Injury Does Not Trigger Fibromyalgia – What Does?
Physical trauma such as car accidents are often assumed to trigger FM but a recent study suggests that that’s not so at all. In fact, some researchers believe painful events play no role at all in triggering FM. Is that possible, and if it is what the heck is...
Are All the “Feel-Good” Pathways Blocked in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Missing that runner’s high? (Any high at all?) Your living circumstances or the losses you have endured may not be to blame. The loss of those good feelings may not be due to depression. Physiology could be behind all of them. “Highs” or good...
Fibromyalgia – Neuroinflammatory Disease? Savella – Anti- Inflammatory Drug?
Study suggests neuroinflammation could be driving the pain in fibromyalgia and Savella may helpLives Interrupted Latest Story
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