The bottom line is always treatments. Long COVID has brought a ton of interest to post-infectious illnesses. Researchers are asking whether they are actually autoimmune diseases, how big of a role coagulation or gut microbiome problems play, if viral reactivation is...
Clinical Trials Ending This Year or Late Last Year The coronavirus pandemic stopped everything for quite a while but the clinical trials which survived the pandemic probably started up again quite some time ago. All we have to go by, though, are the stated completion...
The US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition Created in 2018 by a group of U.S. physicians, the US ME/CFS Clinician Coalition is dedicated to advancing best medical practices to medical providers on how to best diagnose and treat ME/CFS. Since 2018, the word has gotten out and...
Both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clearly need better treatments. The FDA-approved drugs for these diseases are too often ineffective, come with too many side effects (fibromyalgia) or just aren’t available at all (ME/CFS). Too many...
Two Cognitive Diseases Fibromyalgia is more than a pain disease – it’s also a cognitive disease. In fact, some studies suggest the cognitive issues can present more problems than the pain. They’ve been prevalent and serious enough to spark the...
Sleep deprivation is common in fibromyalgia and it doesn’t just cause fatigue. Studies show that losing sleep increases your pain sensitivity as well, and quickly; it took just two nights of fragmented sleep to significantly increase pain sensitivity in healthy...
