Archive for the ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ Category

Why Can’t We Think Well When We’re Sick?

This isn’t specif­i­cally about CFS/ME or FMS, but I found it inter­est­ing, and I think it makes sense. Why Men­tal Lethargy When Sick Dur­ing an infec­tion, humans typ­i­cally expe­ri­ence a set of phys­i­o­log­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal symp­toms, includ­ing fever, con­fu­sion, decreased moti­va­tion, depres­sion and anx­i­ety that are accom­pa­nied by a slow­ing of move­ments. These changes, col­lec­tively known as […]

June 12, 2008  Tags: CFS/ME, cognitive deficits, cytokines, fevers, infection  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, From the news  One Comment

CFS?">Oxygen for CFS?

A research abstract from Dr. Paul Cheney offers an inter­est­ing con­clu­sion. Oxy­gen Tox­i­c­ity as a Locus of Con­trol for Chronic Fatigue Syn­drome “We con­clude that CFS is an oxy­gen toxic state and that oxy­gen tox­i­c­ity sta­tus appears to deter­mine out­come in ther­a­peu­tic tri­als and is there­fore, a locus of con­trol in chronic fatigue syn­drome.” The […]

May 27, 2008  Tags: CFS, chronic+fatigue+syndrome, ME, oxygen, Paul+Cheney  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome  One Comment

Fibromyalgia or Depression?

There are many peo­ple, espe­cially doc­tors, who claim that fibromyal­gia is just a symp­tom of depres­sion. I’ve had both, and I know the dif­fer­ence quite well. They are very, very dif­fer­ent. Being in pain all the time can cer­tainly lead to depres­sion. That’s just log­i­cal. There are, how­ever, peo­ple who have fibromyal­gia who are not […]

May 24, 2008  Tags: depression, Fibromyalgia, FMS, psychology  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  4 Comments

Interview: Chronic Pain and Sex

The inter­view we did is up! Chronic Pain and Sex: a Couple’s Gen­tle Bat­tle With Fibromyal­gia I’m pleased with it. There are very few, mostly imma­te­r­ial inaccuracies.

May 14, 2008  Tags: chronic pain, intimacy, relationships, sex  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news, Pain  No Comments

FMS/CFW Awareness Day!">Whoops! Yesterday was FMS/CFW Awareness Day!

I intended to post and maybe even try to get a pod­cast out, but ended up using my energy to do an inter­view with a reporter. I don’t know when the piece will come out (it wasn’t for aware­ness day–that was just an amus­ing coin­ci­dence), but I’ll let you know when/if I hear any­thing. She […]

May 13, 2008  Tags: Awareness Day, May 12  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia  No Comments