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Which electrical therapy--I'd like the author to come out with it.

Their music as "complementary treatment." Complementary = alternative = integrative = quackery (unless definitively proven otherwise). My n=1 as a PwFM is this: music is no longer pleasurable, except for classical guitar. It is simply too much sensory input. Also, in the pilot feasibility...

I haven't, couldn't access whole report. However the number of subjects measured at five years (185) were greater than the ones measured at two years (175). I assume that the folks measured at two years were then measured at five years, for comparison's sake. But then, where did the extra 10...

Even Mao didn't use Chinese traditional medicine because, he said, it didn't work.

Neoliberalism is an economics concept and is: shrinking government, including its responsibility for taking care of people in need. Espouses privatization of everything. Associated with the Libertarian Party and conservatism in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Got both the flu vaccine and the Pfizer hybrid yesterday. Transient feeling feverish, aching on top of FM ache, sore arm muscles. Wired. Better this morning. The woman giving me the shots here in California was from Hertfordshire/Oxford and she consciously tones down her accent, running her...

I apologize for that. I should have warned. I forget that others are affected bigtime (because I'm not, though I hated the visuals).

I was or still am a participant in the Harvard Nurses Health Study and we had a dietary intake questionnaire for several years (I questioned its accuracy by recall of the participant to the researchers and they assured me it was "valid.") They might give you some info on setting yours up...

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-sars-cov-2-battles-our-immune-system If you are interested in the virus, this is a pretty spectacular article in Science (the magazine).

Interesting points. I think the advice given to FM patients is to do some form of exercise, whatever is tolerated. Sometimes GET is mentioned. But it is assumed that FM patients, in general, have much more tolerance to exercise (however mild) than ME patients (in general). CBT is the answer to...

Back in the day (1999-2000) when I finally applied for US social security disability, I first had to exhaust 6 months of state disability. And prior to applying for social security disability (federal), I also went through a vocation rehab program run by the state to exhaust all possible...

Great if you can be taught to ignore chronic pain (mostly used on chronic back pain). The trick must be to convince yourself that you are the cause of the pain or the pain continuing. If your nerves are churning out aberrant pain signals and won't stop doing it, though drugs mask that effect...

Copyediting problem or maybe it's the Chrysalis copy editing effect: M.E. is how E.l.a.i.n.e. punctuates it.

Wow, oracle! Seventeen experts said yes or no to the surveyor's choice of non-pharma modalites such as magnetotherapy, cupping, acupuncture, and the usual suspects: the memes of aerobic exercise, mindfulness (don't you love it), and sleep hygiene. why the emphasis on non-pharma? Got a...

@Hutan Interesting career trajectory this Dr. Jason Busse. Undergrad degree in microbiology. Masters in molecular and medical genetics. Chiropractic professional degree (why?). Then a Phd from McMaster's in epidemiology (these are on his Linked-in account). On the Chronic Pain Network website (...

Bottom line is that fibromyalgia contains much more complexity than CBT can begin to work with. CBT believes in Santa Claus or that they are Santa Claus. That all the symptloms and sequelae can be overcome.

Purpose of this loose pilot study seems to be to compare to in-person CBT vs this app (called Fibroline, originally developed in a pediatric pain department). Not a lot of subjects. No detailed knowledge of subjects (whether or not they were using other pain control measures, for example)...

I've planned my snappy comeback if I am ever reproached about my mask: "I'm immuno-compromised."

I must have been tripping. You're right it's caregiver. I knew I was 'off' with the caretaker mention.

Yes, a dialect thing: in the US, it is "caretakers." Those who take care of someone. We'd have a "custodian" take care of the furnace in a school. But there is "custodial care" also, which I'm not sure means what except that it is caretaking.