My Recovery Journey from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The eighth in Health Rising’s recent recovery story series brings yet another slant on recovery. We’ve had fast recoveries where someone found “the thing” (Melissa’s spinal patch, Rachel and Adam’s vaccines) that quickly turned...
Osteoporosis: The Fibromyalgia (and ME/CFS and Long COVID?) Connection
Osteoporosis You could have blown me over with a feather. Osteoporosis and fibromyalgia? What in the world could a chronic pain condition have in common with a low bone density condition? Quite a bit, it turns out. Osteoporosis refers to reduced bone density, which...
Immune Disease? Neutrophils on the Attack in Fibromyalgia
“These data demonstrate that neutrophils are fundamental for the development of chronic widespread pain through the infiltration of peripheral sensory ganglia.” The authors There isn’t a lot of fibromyalgia research going on and the field has gone...
Signs of Change? Did Two ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia “Moments” Just Occur?
ME/CFS and FM Moments? I think of “moments” as unusual events that suggest the tide may be turning for these common but sorely neglected diseases. Health Rising has documented several possible ME/CFS “moments” over the past two years and now we...
Are Oxygen Depleted Muscles Causing Problems in Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia (FM) is so weird. Exercise studies are just going gangbusters. If researchers devoted as much time and money to attempting to understand what’s going on in FM as they do on exercise studies we might have some real answers. The outcome has been that...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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