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Anything written by Frederick Wolfe is suspect, in my opinion. He has a long history of being against diagnosis of FM. His tone is quite anti-patient.

Aren't they missing all the confounding variables by comparing only one item: domestic violence. What about repetitive muscle use in a job, prior surgery on an area, genetics, or immune system causes of instigating FM.

Anti-depressants (milnacipran--FDA approved for FM, and amyltriptylline) are used to treat FM pain, a first-line treatment, not because FM patients are depressed but rather the anti-depressants can dampen pain sensations. But not in all patients. Now because of the anti-opioid prescribing...

I felt safe until last week when my sister insisted on hugging everyone (she must derive some cortisol lowering benefit). We were masked (N95s and outdoors) but still...bringing your face in toward one another, doesn't that defeat the distance/masking benefit? Hugging a toddler, now that is...

Could it be, just a possibility, that people with FM who have more severe pain have a less positive outlook maybe? That would be logical to assume. First comes the severe pain, exhaustion, cognitive problems, having to quit employment and all of this have sequelae (lack of positive attitude...

There is quite a bit of US federal funding of opioid reduction programs (aka pain rehab) since the Sackler debacle was attributed more toward pain patients, for a time. The main federal agency for pain research is all about taper off opioids and there aren't as yet effective replacements.

Interesting in-depth article. The physician owner of Epicgenetics was not much of a scientist--his "test" was a cytokine signature for FM that has not borne out. He should have gone to the little trouble of disproving his hypothesis instead of building a company around it, but that was his...

The NYTimes Pain Report, a well mind category (is that a sloshy wellness category they have in which they tell you how to wipe the GOOP off your bum?) and this is a series of mish-mash articles. Yes, the CBT for chronic pain does want you to learn to shove pain aside by using your cortex to...

Tender points as diagnostic aids are not present in the most current (2016) guide to diagnosing fibromyalgia, rather the number of areas of pain throughout the body is emphasized.

I think that's the whole point. That "symptoms" here, originally in ACT, were symptoms of anxiety/depression. The fear is that the Crawley crowd can't let go and will try to enact ACT as a work-around (with their spurious clinical trials) to try to convince people once again that ME/CFS is...

Here is what I found odd, blithely equating language itself with the mind. It's some sort of philosophical thing (I am quite ignorant of) but it seems a conflation or a distortion and makes me not trust the guy's intellect much. Under the heading "Destructive Normality" he writes, "Furthermore...

ACT seems weird to me. I don't get why the average person with FM or ME/CFS of a few years standing would want someone who doesn't have pain or ME, 'assisting' them, telling them how to manage better, and 'act' for one's values, when frankly one has to learn to leave a lot of valued stuff...

Love these! Thanks so much. And yes, such a good voice, well-rehearsed too.

Quite an over-reach of a theory as well as lacking an understanding of the basics of pain-generation. I don't see this going anywhere.

That guy in a wheelchair is way too happy-faced to be afflicted with fibro.

Wondering if the high incidence of the diagnosis of fibromyalgia at the Beersheba center for fibromyalgia is because of the expertise of diagnosing fibromyalgia at that specialty center---so that cases are more readily diagnosed at the Beersheba center than elsewhere in Israel because it is a...

40% of a disability pension is better than nothing, but shouldn't the amount be tailored to the severity of impairment?

What is this computer-jargon have to do with the not well-elucidated brain modulatory process, and call it top-down prediction signals when obviously in fibromyalgia, the huge amount of sensory (afferent) nerve input to the brain is off the charts? "Interoception has been conceptualised as a...

My body has multiple sites just ready to kick off strong pain signals if I "overuse" (normal use) the muscles. These sites are the thighs, shins, buttocks area and lower back, all of my back, neck, upper arms, shoulders and anterior chest. Delayed onset of pain gets me into trouble. Hours later...

I can (I have FM) do a one-pound bag of rice bicep curls twice and experience pain the next day as though I had done a whole set (10 reps) of 5 lb barbells. It's so fun. And then, just to mess with my brain, occasionally I can get away with no pain from the rice curls.