“Our present study advances a new view of FMS pain that places the pain generator and the site of pain in the same peripheral location—the painful tender muscles. Specifically, this study challenges the prevailing theory of pain in FMS.” Katz et. Al....
The Netherlands and the U.K. have been the epicenter of biopsychosocial research (CBT/GET) into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) for the past 20 years or so, but that is changing. In 2018, the Dutch Health Council asserted that “Scientific research on ME/CFS is...
Right on the heels of a study showing that people with fibromyalgia have trouble focusing or paying attention comes another study linking cognitive problems to a balky stress response. Say What? Attention Deficits Highlight Why Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS) Are Such...
How fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and allied diseases are so different from diseases like rheumatoid arthritis Fibro-fog, brain-fog, chemo-fog… It can get pretty dim out there if you have fibromyalgia (FM), chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and environmental...
Several commonalities exist between chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). Both appear to feature low heart variability, small fiber neuropathy (SFN), neuroinflammation, some similar brain imaging results, evidence of impaired energy production,...
How an opioid drug called tapentadol (Nucynta) told us something about the small fiber neuropathy in fibromyalgia Given the concerns about the use of opioid prescription drugs, the fact that one not called Tramadol worked in fibromyalgia may not elicit much interest....