Taking a Stand: Fibromyalgia, Orthostatic Intolerance and the Autonomic Nervous System
Numerous tilt table studies indicate that orthostatic intolerance (increased symptoms while standing) is common in fibromyalgia - placing it in a similar disease category as chronic fatigue syndrome and postural orthostatic intolerance syndrome (POTS). Sleep issues, pain, fatigue, allodynia, anxiety, irritable bowel and others could all result from the autonomic nervous system problems found in these diseases.
A Holiday Gift Guide For People with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
It’s Black Friday – the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. Health Rising usually does a tongue-in-cheek Black Friday blog to remind readers that HR gets a percentage of every Amazon.com purchase made through HR’s Amazon search box (see...
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) An Underused ME/CFS/FM Management Tool: PT II – Surveying the Landscape
Karmin returns with a second in a series of blogs on using heart rate variability (HRV) testing to manage and improve one’s health. She shows how home-based HRV testing can provide better information on how to pace oneself cognitively than heart rate testing,...
Fibromyalgia – Do You Even Have It? The Brady Approach to FM
Naturopath and nutritionist, Dr. David Brady’s taken a kind of media driven, rock-star approach to alternative health. He’s got the flashy website; he’s written the book with the catchy title, “The Fibro Fix: Get to the Root of Your...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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