Getting at the Hurt in Chronic Pain
Pain – A Surprisingly Complex Experience Pain seems pretty elementary – it hurts! When it really hurts, you want to throw yourself out of your skin. It’s actually not so simple. Pain is often described as a complex, “biopsychosocial...
Death in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) – What has it Told Us? The Autopsy Files
It’s always hard to lose a loved one, but the deaths in ME/CFS seem particularly hard. They tend to be quite painful, they often take place in the midst of a non-supportive medical system, and they’re a complete mystery. With no seeming way out it’s...
The Pain Brain: Hippocampal Atrophy Found in Fibromyalgia
The Pain Brain Sometimes you’ve got to ask wonder where is it going to stop with fibromyalgia (FM) and the brain? Reductions in the volume of “gray matter” (the neuronal cell bodies and glial cells as opposed to the long nerve fibers) have been found...
Immersed: How I Found a Way (After Decades of Trying) to Help My Allodynia and Nerve Pain
I suspect many you are like me: there is something dramatically wrong with your body and it has been that way for quite a while. You surf the ups and downs of your symptoms and occasionally wonder, “What does this symptomatic change mean?” If you are like...Drug Under Development Spells Hope for Pain Relief in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
From opioids to anticonvulsants to antidepressants, etc. doctors throw a wide variety of drugs at nerve pain, yet the prognosis is generally poor with 40-60% of patients receiving only partial relief. (Some studies indicate alpha lipoic acid and benfotiamine...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
Allyn Archer
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Former occupation: Architect, Professor of Architecture
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