Archive for the ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ Category

FMS at PostSecret">FMS at PostSecret

Did any­one else see this at Post­Se­cret today? I was made aware of it by a post to fibromyal­gia.1 Reac­tions there are fairly neg­a­tive, because so many of us have had bad expe­ri­ences with peo­ple who think we’re malin­ger­ing. I have mixed feel­ings, though. I don’t exactly share the sen­ti­ments expressed in the piece, but […]

March 23, 2008  Tags: anxiety, fear, PostSecret  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  3 Comments

FMS and CFS/ME?">Cortisol and FMS and CFS/ME?

There’s been a lot of buzz over the past week about a study pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Chronic Fatigue Syn­drome that sug­gests treat­ing fibromyal­gia and ME/CFS with cor­ti­sol (a steroid), based on the fact that most patients have low cor­ti­sol lev­els. I do not have access to that pub­li­ca­tion, but would like to point […]

March 22, 2008  Tags: CFS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, cortisol, Fibromyalgia, FMS, hydrocortisone, ME, prednisone, steroids  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news  5 Comments

Pain cures for women; Migraines from low-energy light bulbs

I’ve had these two sto­ries book­marked to post here for a bit, so it seems past time for me to actu­ally do it. The best new pain cures, with a focus on women Many women have a tough time find­ing the right kind of relief for their pain –and for good rea­son: Until recently, experts hadn’t actually […]

January 9, 2008  Tags: CF bulbs, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, gender, light bulbs, lupus, migraines, Pain, women  Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, From the news, Pain  2 Comments

The Syndrome Syndrome

My good­ness. I think some­body over at Home on the Strange might have encoun­tered one of those peo­ple who makes life so hard for those of us who really have invis­i­ble dis­abil­i­ties! Go on over and read the comic. I don’t want to spoil the surprise!

April 4, 2007   Posted in: Attitude, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Education, Fibromyalgia  4 Comments

Will there be a cure?

I responded to a post in a friend’s Live­Jour­nal, in which she talked about a friend of hers who has just been diag­nosed with chronic fatigue syn­drome. Her friend was very upset that my friend didn’t believe there is a cure for fibromyal­gia or CFS (at least, there isn’t one right now). This is part […]

December 11, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia  14 Comments