The Nov. 2nd announcement by Cannabis Science that it was developing a cannabis pain patch for fibromyalgia sent a wave of excitement rippling through the FM community. A short Nov. 4th Fibromyalgia News Today (FNT) blog received so much interest (20,000 hits, 1,500...
Surveys suggest that medical marijuana presents an opportunity to do some much needed good for people with ME/CFS/FM. Used correctly it can relieve pain, provide much needed relaxation, and enhance sleep. Used incorrectly it make you sick or leave you flying like a...
Effective pain management is a moral imperative – one we are not meeting. An IOM report Pain management is dominated by the use of opiates but arguably it shouldn’t be. Producing a sensation of pain is a complex operation. From the pain signals produced at...
Missing that runner’s high? (Any high at all?) Your living circumstances or the losses you have endured may not be to blame. The loss of those good feelings may not be due to depression. Physiology could be behind all of them. “Highs” or good...
The microglia in the brain and spinal cord are getting more and more interest in fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Given their roles in producing both neuropathic pain and neuroinflammation it wouldn’t be surprising if they weren’t...
Fibromyalgia syndrome – Novel therapeutic agents. J. Ablin and D. Buskila. Maturitas 2013 “The long term follow-up of FMS patients indicates…..that the degree of improvement achieved by many medications…is modest at best” Ablin and Buskia...
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