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Thank you for that...memory of returning in the dead of winter to a northern mid-western city wearing an ancient pair of leather lace up boots from the Salvation Army in California (where I was living). The damn salt on the sidewalk ate holes in those boots the first day I was back. Not to...

Sedentary women could have been sedentary prior to onset of FM, or they prefer other movement (dancing, housework) to walking. Also, walking is not the panacea that psych and PT think it is, IMHO as a person with FM. It can boost mood, but it can also lead to more pain and fatigue, and yes...

Seems a floundering reason to do a study. What thoughts/hypotheses provoked such a study?. The top risk factors for hospitalization in the general population are obesity, male sex, underlying conditions (heart, lung disease, etc.). Interesting also, the researchers had to throw in the...

I like "Finding a health professional who accepts and understands post-viral illness is akin to tracking down a unicorn with a medical degree."

The only thing that interests me would be some genetic link between FM and metabolic syndrome and the study doesn't point toward that.

My understanding is that FM has not been shown to be an inflammatory rheumatic disease and that CRP levels are not abnormal. Also, these blood ratio tests are used in assessing infection, cancer, as well as inflammation. They are much less specific than tests for rheumatic inflammation. That...

Simplistic, reductionist. Though interesting to learn the term cognitive fusion/defusion (dare I say: confusion?). What affects walking (for me) when it is a given that I highly desire to walk in nature (it's spiritual, puts me in a good mood) and I am highly motivated to increase the time I...

I had numbness in face on one side only several hours post first Pfizer jab. Then squiggly retinal discharges---eye doc says it was a migraine (my first ever). Went away and 2nd and boosters no big deal except for out of it fatigue and sore arm. Hope you do well.

Unfortunate head injury, left the practice of medicine, re-fashioning her career? Only a supposition. A fictional attempt at explaining the ass content. I wish (for 2022) among other things, to not read the word "depression" in the same sentence with FM or ME/CFS. Is it too much to ask? That...

My son seems* to have it, too. Congestion! weird stabbing head pain! Since it's the USA, there's nowhere open *to test, no tests available at less than $200 a pop. Someone in his coterie did test positive/timing is apropos.

S Could be she dropped out of medicine to take on this junk writing gig. So superficial and false.

Yeah, whenever anyone is complaining *too much about their pain, they are catastrophizing. Also, when it interferes with life, it is deemed catatrophizing. *too much = annoying to clinician-researchers or anyone in particular or no one in particular.

I am going to deem the term "pain catastrophizing" in reports, from now on, as "increased pain level." Therefore, it does makes sense that increased pain levels make a person w/FM adverse to walking when what she/he should be doing is working to decrease the pain level by a hot bath, meds...

They want to dismantle the personality and experiences and memory of each unique individual and then reassemble said humans into how and what they want us to be/act like/respond. Disintegrate us. So damning and damaging to read.

I would hypothesize that people with FM strive to be as physically active as they can tolerate and that activity level for which they strive is their exercise level prior to becoming ill with FM. However much one is motivated to exercise with FM, the constant pain generation from normal...

Another gene polymorphisms of COMT study, same ideas https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21130573/

My rheumatologist back in 1996 told me "use heat, heat, heat" for my newly diagnosed FM. True today. Lie or sit back on heating pad to upper body parts. Sorry, researchers, but that's sedentary. Hmm, maybe a balance of careful movement and heat-sedentary "behaviors" would yield a more robust...

The comparison between domestic violence people and those who did not suffer that are only AGE-matched, not socio-economic/health/education levels. So right there, I'm not taking it seriously. I should look into the original research articles linking childhood trauma (incidence in FM vs...

After a cursory reading of this study of rTMS safety issues, I would not be a guinea pig. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388245720305149 The FDA has approved the therapy for severe medication-resistant depression and OCD (again, severe and resistant to medication). I guess...

Bah, it's a preprint. Not peer-reviewed. So, hogwash?!