The Sheffield Talk on Fibromyalgia
(My apologies for those who got two email blasts. I’m not sure how that happened.) In this hour plus Q&A with Sheffield ME and Fibromyalgia Group I got to blab about hot topics in fibromyalgia research, hope for future treatments, how chronic fatigue...
Painfully High Muscle Pressures in Fibromyalgia Put Old Paradigm to the Test
“Our present study advances a new view of FMS pain that places the pain generator and the site of pain in the same peripheral location—the painful tender muscles. Specifically, this study challenges the prevailing theory of pain in FMS.” Katz et. Al....
Poor Oxygen Extraction is Contributing to Exercise Intolerance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
David Systrom, a Harvard pulmonologist, uses invasive CPET tests to find that oxygen extraction problems at the muscle level are common in ME/CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has a reputation for falling through the cracks. Test after test is run to no avail. ...
Migraine, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia – Low Oxygen, High Lactate Disorders?
Migraine effects 12% of the population (!) or about 40 million people. Two studies suggest as many as 75% of people with chronic fatigue syndrome experience migraines and that most migraines in ME/CFS are undiagnosed. A recent large fibromyalgia study suggested...
Fibromyalgia – Neuroinflammatory Disease? Savella – Anti- Inflammatory Drug?
Sometimes you just guess right. Natelson and Shungu and company made two big guesses in this oh so interesting clinical trial. First, they guessed that people with fibromyalgia would have the same increased brain lactate levels that they’ve found that people...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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