What do a vaccine, a cough suppressant, a drug with only numbers for a name, an anesthetic, and the new migraine drugs have in common? They’re all either being tested in an FM clinical trial or are about to be. FM may not be getting a lot of research but...
“For now, they (the new drugs) look fantastic. They shake the ground under our feet. They will change the way we treat migraine.” Dr. Stewart J. Tepper, a professor of neurology at Dartmouth College In many ways, migraine is in the same basket as fibromyalgia (FM) and...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a dreaded disease. About ten years into having chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), I still remember being tested for it and how thankful I was that I didn’t have it. MS does things to people that ME/CFS doesn’t. For one thing, it...
We know that hepatitis C patients receiving a strong pro-inflammatory drug (IFN-a) that helps them fight off their viral infections and ME/CFS patients have very similar problems with fatigue and identical problems with their basal ganglia. That suggests that...
Migraine does not do well at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and that’s a surprise. Migraine has been recognized as a disease for hundreds of years. It has a basketful of drugs approved for it. It’s a prevalent, well-known disease and the economic...