Vagus Nerve Stimulation, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
With an enormous potential therapeutic gain and a high safety profile, further development and application of VNS is encouraging. Yuan et. Al Vagus nerve stimulation is one of the most promising chronic pain interventions under development today. An earlier blog on...
Did Probiotics Cure My Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Thanks to Carol for allowing Health Rising to post her startling recovery story. Please note that we’re at the very early stages of understanding how probiotics may help people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or fibromyalgia. The trillions of bacteria...
Chronic fatigue syndrome and Fibromyalgia Patients on Drugs that Help Them Sleep
Health Rising’s 2014 Sleep Survey asked people with ME/CFS/FM to rate how effective many drugs, supplements, and sleep practices were. Hundreds of comments on the drugs surveyed – as well as other drugs – flowed in. They’ve now been...
The Best, Least, Biggest and Strangest: An ME/CFS and FM Look Back at 2015
News, People and Organizations Biggest Gut Punches to the Federal Neglect of ME/CFS – Two federally funded reports land a gut punch to the NIH’s historical neglect of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). They both call for urgent increases in support....
Lending a Hand: the Avacen 100 for Fibromyalgia?
Forget the drugs – how about putting your hand in a machine and watching the pain ebb away? Science fiction? One company thinks not – and it’s recent Phase II study has turned out quite well – thank you. The Avacen machine purports to reduce...StudyME
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