Four drugs may be approved for FM in the coming years. One of them just passed a big hurdle. A novel formulation, this drug has improved sleep, pain and fatigue in FM patients – and final (Phase Three) trials are underway across the U.S. Is the fourth drug about...
Unrefreshing Sleep – Not Poor Sleep – Synonymous with ME/CFS and FM Poor sleep has been long held to be synonymous with ME/CFS and FM, and indeed the survey found that fairly poor (40%) and really poor (27%) sleep was common. However, about a third of...
The question Dr. Bateman tackled in her recent Solve ME/CFS Initiative video was “Can Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS research help you sleep?” (Section in [ ] represent my additions.) Sleep, of course, is one of the biggies in ME/CFS and FM — one of the...
Several ME/CFS and/or FM experts have said that you can’t fix fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome without fixing sleep. Dr. Bateman, whose SolveME/CFS presentation on sleep we’re going to cover soon, said she’s tried literally everything she can...
“Eighty percent of my patients make their sleep worse.” Dr. Lucinda Bateman Do you have problems with your sleep? (Too much or too little?). Ever wonder how much your sleep/sleep debt is affecting your pain? Your concentration levels? Brain fog? Depression? Sleep...