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  1. shak8

    Flower Arranging Helps Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain

    Hehe:heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:, but there were a lot of potheads as participants.
  2. shak8

    Flower Arranging Helps Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain

    According to this Medscape report https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/916994 Unfortunately for me, lifting my arms is never therapeutic. Strong floral odors can be unpleasant also. Surely the more severe cases (who couldn't reliably turn up at the venue) dropped out.
  3. shak8

    What does fold change mean?

    Start at zero, or baseline of whatever you are testing about. "Fold" means x or multiplied by x. So starting at zero, increase by 0.6x.
  4. shak8

    Fibromyalgia "Conference" via Jarred Younger email touting it

    I did write him a quick email reply saying exactly that.
  5. shak8

    Fibromyalgia "Conference" via Jarred Younger email touting it

    https://www.conqueringfibromyalgia.com/encore?r_done=1 This webpage has the interviews. Mostly chiros, alternative (quack) MDs, reverse fibro? Right. That will hook a person.
  6. shak8

    Fibromyalgia "Conference" via Jarred Younger email touting it

    I got an email from the Jarud Younger Lab today touting a email conference led by a Dr. Aviles. So, out of journalistic curiosity, I signed up for the newsletter and started to get a series of daily emails by quacks who are doing their fall promotions. These are cash businesses. There's no...
  7. shak8

    Does anyone use Topical Capsaicin Cream?

    I use capsaicin cream for my arthritic knees and back pain, as well as for fibromyalgia muscle areas in my mid-back. It is recommended by arthritis doctors because it is effective and has been studied. It doesn't work instantaneously though. Get the highest strength for the best effect It works...
  8. shak8

    Basic questions about metabolism

    Just eat. A balanced diet, lots of vegetables. Food is meant to be enjoyed, savored. It is nice to know that your pooh is from food ingested 48 hours ago, roughly. So if you're constipated, you didn't eat enough fiber and water or took an extra dose of opioid, two days prior...roughly. Simple...
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    Mast Cells, Neuroinflammation and Pain in Fibromyalgia Syndrome, 2019, Theoharides et al

    I hope this is a pretty important avenue for more research. Sounds promising to me.
  10. shak8

    Psychological predictors of fatigue, work and social adjustment, and psychological distress in rheumatology outpatients: A short report. 2019 Chalder

    What a screwy skewed schema. (Psychology is a recent little brother of philosophy and in this case, completely irrelevant and a huge waste of tax money.) So-called objectivity? Where? Because they use phrases? Da-da-ga-ga has more meaning.
  11. shak8

    New poor Guardian article "ME and the perils of internet activism" 28th July 2019

    Someone who carries all those initials after the MD, to me, is suspicious.
  12. shak8

    Survey of activity pacing across healthcare professionals informs a new activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue, 2019, Antcliff et al

    Why is it assumed by medical people that the patient is too dumb to figure out how much she is able to do and what she should refrain from doing? What happened to the concept of learning from patients or is that only done in certain types of nursing research. Why is it that medical people...
  13. shak8

    Non-Allergic Rhinitis

    I have been diagnosed with non-allergic rhinitis. I am to do sinus rinses followed by a nasal steroid twice a day. If I don't, or if I have a cold virus, I can get a lot of vertigo, which ain't fun. I also had shortness of breath due to the bronchi reacting to the post nasal drip, I suppose...
  14. shak8

    The Canadian Chronic Pain Task force report

    The overly broad generalizations about psych therapies being so direly useful--is just baked rehash-trash. Sure, some people, when just diagnosed, need to try to relax a little when they have chronic pain. But perhaps sessions with an occupational therapist would be more useful. Of course...
  15. shak8

    Noise cancelling headphones! Oh Joy! (and other ways to block sound)

    Mute it a little, perhaps lower the high-pitch a little. It's the gestalt of the tinnitus plus ambient noise that both the ear plugs and noise cancelers work on. Don't know how others w/tinnitus would say.
  16. shak8

    Noise cancelling headphones! Oh Joy! (and other ways to block sound)

    I use ear plugs AND Bose noise canceling headphone all of the time, except when I'm out driving. At stores, I just use ear plugs. I have to use both because I have tinnitus as well as noise sensitivity. And despite these measures, noises still bother me. I suppose my brain interprets apartment...
  17. shak8

    Well-known, famous people with fibromyalgia

    If by treatable you mean there are approved drugs that do some a little improvement, then sure, it's more treatable. The prognosis for fibromyaglia patients (by Dr. Robert Bennett, of U-Oregon and who had thousands of fibro patients and who discovered the growth hormone deficiency due to sleep...
  18. shak8

    Nature - News feature: Does psychology have a conflict-of-interest problem?, 2019, Tom Chivers

    If Maryanne gets the nomination, I am leaving this nation. Would England take me back after a 410 year absence?
  19. shak8

    Medically Documenting Disability in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) cases May 2019 Comerford & Podell

    Excellent, written by disability lawyers. For USA socials security disability and private disability insurance claims. Section on the adult and the need to have a daily written journal of ME effect on activity by the ME patient--this is crucial. Well done!
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