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  1. shak8
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    Guardian: George Monbiot 'Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid', April 2021 - Discusses ME/CFS and PACE

    Frederick Woolf, MD basically said the same thing about fibromyalgia diagnosis, that it created more problems giving patients a diagnostic label...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:52 PM in forum: General ME/CFS News
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    Pain is not the major determinant of quality of life in fibromyalgia: results from a retrospective “real world” data analysis of [FM] patients, 2021

    Maybe it relates to how pain signals mess up the pain processing parts of the brain and you get diffuse symptoms that aren't ipso facto felt as...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:56 PM in forum: Fibromyalgia and Connective Tissue Disorders
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    Drop-out from chronic pain treatment programmes: Is randomization justified in biopsychosocial approaches?, 2021, Bicego et al

    Personal experience with a chronic pain treatment program. If you wanted a pain med, you had to show up at the 8 weekly sessions. So generic. I...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:25 AM in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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    What Does CATS Have to Do With Cancer? The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) Forms the SURGE Model.., 2021, Monk et al

    How dare they demean cats by making such an acronym.
    Post by: shak8, Apr 10, 2021 at 5:07 PM in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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    Fibromyalgia and pain: 'How cooking gave me my family back' - BBC article

    Thread alteration, sorry. But related to food. I was reading a book about crows just now, and got paged. Got out my frozen scrambled eggs bits...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 7, 2021 in forum: Fibromyalgia and Connective Tissue Disorders
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    Fibromyalgia and pain: 'How cooking gave me my family back' - BBC article

    ACT therapy, fine. Inspirational story, the fairy tales we adults need, apparently. But some 'adequate' pain relief meds are essential. You can't...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 6, 2021 in forum: Fibromyalgia and Connective Tissue Disorders
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    Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine) Nijs et al.

    No direct evidence of aberrant muscle/tendon inputs in muscle biopsies in the maintenance of fibro pain. It is assumed that normal stimuli result...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 3, 2021 in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
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    Central sensitisation in chronic pain conditions: latest discoveries and their potential for precision medicine) Nijs et al.

    I read most of the article. The salient point (especially seen in the literature review) is to be able to identify those patients for example who...
    Post by: shak8, Apr 1, 2021 in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
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    Article: Women are more susceptible to long Covid, but will we listen to them?

    As usual---women's 'complaints'.
    Post by: shak8, Mar 25, 2021 in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19)
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    Idiopathic myalgic pain (fibromyalgia): supportive management and prevention with Pycnogenol®: 2021 Belcaro et al

    Orchid that I am (or rather shrinking violet) I might thrive on maritime pine bark.
    Post by: shak8, Mar 20, 2021 in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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    Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity, 2021, Wilding et al

    In the US, in my childhood, there were few obese kids, teens and adults. I think these factors are relevant: Food advertising on TV, especially...
    Post by: shak8, Mar 15, 2021 in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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    Persistent Suffering:The Serious Consequences of Sexual Violence against Women and Girls, Their Search for Inner Healing.., 2021, Sigurdardottir et al

    Dissociation of mind from body: traumatic dissociation. My experience: physical feeling that my soul is leaving the body, post-rape. Yes, this...
    Post by: shak8, Mar 7, 2021 in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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    News from Japan

    Cultural factors in Japan make ME more than a nightmare.
    Post by: shak8, Mar 1, 2021 in forum: Regional News
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    Fibromyalgia Patients are not only Hypersensitive to Painful Stimuli but also to Sound Stimuli, Staud et al, 2021

    Good that there is a study and not just anecdotal reports.
    Post by: shak8, Feb 27, 2021 in forum: Fibromyalgia and Connective Tissue Disorders
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    Noise cancelling headphones! Oh Joy! (and other ways to block sound)

    When the apartment neighbor's bathroom fan is turned on, and I'm particularly challenged, I have ear plugs and Bose noise-canceling headphones on,...
    Post by: shak8, Feb 25, 2021 in forum: Hypersensitivity and Intolerance Reactions
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    Power over pain – An interprofessional approach to chronic pain: Program feedback from a medically underserved community, Bryl et al, 2021

    Don't get me started...
    Post by: shak8, Feb 18, 2021 in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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    Chronic Illness: The Case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, 2021, Jason et al

    Gadzukes, the abstract needs editing. Punctuation and spacing are bad.
    Post by: shak8, Feb 16, 2021 in forum: General ME/CFS News
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    My Doctor Told Me My Pain Was All in My Head. It Ended Up Saving Me. 2021 Medical examiner article

    As someone with moderate-severe fibro primarily, I try to find some reason to treat seriously these ideas of self-improvement via just "not paying...
    Post by: shak8, Feb 16, 2021 in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
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    The Puzzle Solver by Tracie White

    Also replay of the interview here (you'll need to copy and paste into your browser)...
    Post by: shak8, Feb 13, 2021 in forum: General ME/CFS News
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    Anyone recommend an ultralightweight hoover?

    Too bad you can't remove the damn stair carpeting. I have a Royal upright vacuum, must be 30+ years old. Bought before it was bought by a Chinese...
    Post by: shak8, Feb 13, 2021 in forum: Lifestyle Management
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