NOT related to FMS!">Abortion is NOT related to FMS!

I detest igno­rant big­ots. And I absolutely con­sider the fol­low­ing hate speech: So like an HPV diag­no­sis in some­one would almost guar­an­tee that oth­ers would know the person’s poten­tial morals or lack there of, and HIV almost always denotes a gay man, a diag­no­sis of fibromyal­gia could poten­tially indi­cate a woman who has aborted a […]

June 3, 2008  Tags: abortion, bigots, Fibromyalgia, hate speech  Posted in: Fibromyalgia  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

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