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.
Difference-Maker Unlike FMS, SFPN has identifiable pathology, physiology, and causes, and thus is definitionally a disease. Oaklander et. Al. Dr. Anne Oaklander MD, PhD, is making a difference – maybe a very big difference in the lives of many. Making a...
Researchers and doctors get interested in ME/CFS in different ways. Many have a personal connection, but for David Systrom, a pulmonologist, it was all about demand. He didn’t seek chronic fatigue syndrome patients out – quite the contrary. When Systrom...
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