Not sleeping well? Experiencing a lot of daytime sleepiness? Not thinking clearly? These symptoms are all common to chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) but they don’t always entirely derive from it… not even in people with ME/CFS/FM. If...
“It really provides a whole new tool to our toolkit.” Philip Gehrman, Ph.D., CBSM Sleep or the lack of it is a serious issue in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Not just your energy level but your ability to think clearly, your sensitivity to...
Fibromyalgia syndrome – Novel therapeutic agents. J. Ablin and D. Buskila. Maturitas 2013 “The long term follow-up of FMS patients indicates…..that the degree of improvement achieved by many medications…is modest at best” Ablin and Buskia...
Heads-up sleeping has dramatically improved my daily functioning. I went, in a week and a half, from bedbound to reasonably active–out of bed most of the day, light housework, getting out to social events, etc. Although it sounds like it doesn’t help...
You wake up….luxuriate in that feeling of early morning bliss, yawn, stretch your arms and extend your toes and with a satisfied sigh fall back into the pillows …hmmm…now that was a good nights sleep. Those were the days, huh? Now waking up is probably...
Dr. DeMeirleir’s fourth video in ME/CFS Vereniging’s (ME/CFS Association) ‘Science for Patients’ video series is on sleep. Like the others in the series, the production values are excellent and a dialog box provides an English translation. Dr....