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

ME and FMS">Responses to various comments about ME and FMS

Some of the com­ments are pretty old by now, but there are cer­tain themes that come back, over and over again. I’ve decided to answer them once, and that’s it. ME and FMS are not “lifestyle” dis­eases. Researchers have found genetic, neu­ro­log­i­cal and car­di­o­log­i­cal anom­alies, so get off that blame-the-victim bull­shit. We know bet­ter. We’ve […]

January 23, 2008  Tags: allergies, causes, CFIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, diet, exercise, fatigue, Fibromyalgia, FMS, genetic basis, health foods, ME/CFS, myalgic encephalopathy, neurological disorders, Pain, treatments, weight loss  Posted in: Blogroll  8 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