Muscle pressures three times normal in fibromyalgia suggest that reduced blood flows to the muscle are causing pain and fatigue in FM. They also suggest that the central sensitization cannot explain everything in fibromyalgia.
Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia show differing patterns of abnormal muscle activation - suggesting that one is caused by aerobic energy production problems and the other primarily by central nervous system problems.
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...
The increased BDNF levels in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia could be the link between exercise, neuroinflammation and pain in these diseases.
Nucynta, an opioid drug, was effective in reducing pain in fibromyalgia patients without small fiber neuropathy but was not effective in do so in FM patients with SFN.
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