The Value of Education for Chronic Illness Patients

Paula Kamen, author of All In My Head, talks about the value of edu­ca­tion in cop­ing with chronic ill­ness in an excel­lent edi­to­r­ial in the New York Times. Leav­ing the Rab­bit Hole. This pas­sage, in par­tic­u­lar, spoke to me: The worst thing, to me, about hav­ing a non-stop multi-year headache isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the pain. Or […]

February 19, 2008  Tags: chronic daily headache, chronic illness, Education, migraines, Pain, Paula Kamen  Posted in: Education, Pain, Resources  One Comment

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