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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...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.