Is a Hyperarousal Sleep Disorder Keeping People with Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS Up at Night
Insomnia may be common but much is still unknown about it. We know, for instance, that different types of insomnia exist, but the authors of a recent paper “Effects of trazodone versus cognitive behavioral therapy in insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype:...
The Brainstem – Is it THE Pain Conductor in Fibromyalgia?
The received wisdom about the pain in fibromyalgia (FM) is that it’s being produced in the central nervous system. That idea was amplified very early in “Altered Pain in the Brainstem and Spinal Cord of Fibromyalgia Patients During the Anticipation and...
Mestinon Moves the Needle on ME/CFS in Exercise Study
Mestinon moves the needle on ME/CFS in unusual one-shot exercise study This is the most unusual clinical trial/study that I’ve come across. Too short to be a full-blown clinical trial, it was essentially a short-term test of the idea that problems with...
$8 Million Clinical Trial of a Mitochondrial Booster Underway in ME/CFS
An $8 million clinical trial of a mitochondrial enhancer, no less, in ME/CFS? I thought I was hearing things but it was so, and, in the end, it even makes sense given how rapidly some parts of this field are moving forward. But first, a little backstory. A...
No Neuroinflammation Needed? An Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Winds Up
Epic ME/CFS Hypothesis Series Not many people have taken their shot at completely explaining chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but of those that have, Wirth and Scheibenbogen’s epic three-part hypothesis series takes the cake. If the goal of a hypothesis is to...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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