What can you expect if you have fibromyalgia? Do most people tend to get better or worse? Do people with FM ever recover and, if so, how many people do? Several studies have examined the progression of fibromyalgia over time. Bearing in mind two things: (a) studies...
Dr. Light has said that he wants to do for fatigue what researchers have done for pain; that is uncover the molecular pathways that cause fatigue. Some time ago Light presented one of the most spectacular graphs of ME/CFS ever done. I still remember the gasp that...
By the time this year is through Jarred Younger may have proven neuroinflammation is present in ME/CFS and uncovered what’s causing it, found another drug for fibromyalgia, and in what he called an “incredibly important study” demonstrated how the...
Many people suspect that inflammation plays a major role in both ME/CFS and fibromyalgia yet standard tests are usually negative. However, a new inflammation test being developed at Stanford by a researcher (who’s also doing work on ME/CFS) could change that....
Twenty billion dollars a year… That’s how much Americans in chronic pain spend on prescription pain-killers every year. Most of these are opioid drugs, but the increasing regulatory burden foisted on them and the growing realization of how ineffective and...
A Young Doctor Fights to Cure His Own Rare, Deadly Disease His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. The “Beast” was just twenty-five years old. A physical specimen, David Fajgenbaum went from gym rat to invalid incredibly quickly. First his lymph nodes...
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