Archive for the ‘Fibromyalgia’ 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

& Fibromyalgia: Lessons Learned and Other Random Thoughts">Excellent article: Pregnancy & Fibromyalgia: Lessons Learned and Other Random Thoughts

ButY­ouDont­Look­Sick has a mar­velous arti­cle up today: ButYouDontLookSick.com : Preg­nancy & Fibromyal­gia: Lessons Learned and Other Ran­dom Thoughts. I’m in the “0.08% chance of that hap­pen­ing” group, like the author. I was sick all the time through­out my one suc­cess­ful preg­nancy. Yes, all day, every day, from about a week after con­cep­tion ’til months after […]

February 4, 2008   Posted in: Fibromyalgia  No 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

New Resource: Curehunter.com

Cure­hunter is an inter­est­ing addi­tion to our online tool­box. It’s a visual med­ical dic­tio­nary. Here’s part of what it gives me when I look up fibromyalgia:

November 24, 2007  Tags: curehunter, dictionary, Fibromyalgia, reference, visual  Posted in: Fibromyalgia, Resources  No Comments