“These data demonstrate that neutrophils are fundamental for the development of chronic widespread pain through the infiltration of peripheral sensory ganglia.” The authors There isn’t a lot of fibromyalgia research going on and the field has gone...
ME/CFS and FM Moments? I think of “moments” as unusual events that suggest the tide may be turning for these common but sorely neglected diseases. Health Rising has documented several possible ME/CFS “moments” over the past two years and now we...
Fibromyalgia (FM) is so weird. Exercise studies are just going gangbusters. If researchers devoted as much time and money to attempting to understand what’s going on in FM as they do on exercise studies we might have some real answers. The outcome has been that...
I think people are pretty familiar with the idea that long COVID could be a subtype of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) but fibromyalgia? Not so much. In fact, we’ve hardly heard anything about a possible connection between FM and long COVID. The third most...
The building is dark – the doors are locked – everything has been shut down. It’s early 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic has struck. A figure walks down the street, pauses – briefly peers into the entrance – and moves on. He turns left...
Another week – another fascinating drug connection pops up in long COVID. A preprint of a long-COVID study, “Outpatient treatment of Covid-19 with metformin, ivermectin, and fluvoxamine – and the development of Long Covid over a 10-month...