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Nice introduction in the study, a review of what is known about fibromyalgia. I would posit that the principles of attachment-based compassion develop organically in the person with fibro (in her own way and in her own time). A sort of radical gratitude toward oneself and toward others...

As someone diagnosed in 1996 with moderate-severe fibro, there are times when lifting a fork to eat something is painful. I have never, ever been able to do 3 reps of lifting soup cans, much less 12 reps w/ repeats, or using Therabands, weights, or extending my arms eccentrically. Legs are...

Medical establishment has lost their grip on hard science. Caved to popularity of unproven and unprovable alternative (complementary) bs. Yes, medicine doesn't have many, many answers. Wishful thinking, placebo response, oh what a lively waste of money it is. Patients are at fault, too, for...

Hang on, when a psychiatric disorder is clearly predominant, don't lump it into this FND category. Just because every generation has to rearrange its categories due to new science or just the need to move the furniture around and write papers about it, no reason to throw out good science and...

Hope = placebo effect, as in 'false hope'.

'Hope' as a concept seems too abstract. Also, it seems rooted in superstition, such as hoping someone gets better from a fatal illness or some such. It's akin to praying. Goes against pragmatism, which, is more valuable because it's more realistic. 'Hope' as a concept seems idealistic...

Perhaps we know by now why these Hong Kong residents experience sleep dysfunction, anxiety, and depression. Political reasons?

Nothing to quibble about so far (only the abstract).

It's not Jerrud Younger. It's Jonathan McConathy, MD, PhD Contact: April Riddle, BSRT Their contact details are on the Clinical trials document. You could tell them what's wrong with Fukuda.

Pedro Almodovar's new film, Pain and Glory, is semi-autobiographical. I was interested in what he's said in interviews because he suffers from migraines and photofobia, back pain, tinnitus, among other maladies, and severely. There may be other illnesses as well. He said recently that he finds...

So true. Abstracts tend to be misleading.

I am not an M.D., but am a former nurse and now patient. I think docs think according to an inner medical algorithm and according to their specialty. And some docs aren't as curious or as intelligent or emotionally empathetic as others. And they have to practice under strictures: the medical...

They used a four-point fatigue scale, with terms like "more fatigue than usual" "less fatigue than usual" something like that. Only four points for a fatigue scale is disqualifying as bona fide ME/CFS research. Oh, and individual ICBT (carrot bullshit therapy) versus Group CBT, oh boy. Now...

Amen.

Incredibly cruel and selfish of them. I want to scream.

What I like about methadone for chronic pain is that it is long acting and one doesn't develop a tolerance as much as one does with morphine-type opioids. German engineering. It has other actions besides on the opioid receptors in the brain (some glutamate thingie). It's cheap and is used in...

I've recently started to have startling new shooting pains in my shins and thighs and a couple of times in my arms. The legs I assume are my fibro hot spots -central sensitization. I tend to do more than one or two leg muscle exercise reps. I just don't think and then I pay for it. Over and...

I'd go if it were a matinee (driving problem); I could take the train.

No, I think that Israel is a big exporter of flowers. Perhaps some relative of the researchers was looking for a new market for leftover and wilting flowers from the Negev flower farms. (https://www.israel21c.org/business-is-blooming-for-israeli-flowers/

I can personally attest to a large increase in pain with certain mild stretching exercises. Because of central sensitization in fibro, certain muscle areas are always problematic and any eccentric muscle contraction will result in increased pain, sometimes severe. I've had episodes where...