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Researchers are physiotherapists in two centers in Spain. What do these phrases actually mean (I don't have access to the full study): "psychophysical" and the "cllnical sensory-related" for the variables. Many of the variables are clearly related such as pain intensity and anixety and...

They used retroactively patients who already had those lab tested done (Vit D and B12). Could that fact limit the uselfulness of the study? It could be that those lab tests were ordered precisely because the patients had outstanding (more than the usual per FM) symptoms pointing to Vit D and...

I have a hard time with these practitioners and their problems. They seem to be lacking some important traits. Like patience, compassion, dedication. If I were their supervisor in clinical rotation, I would have suggested an alternative career, such as auto mechanics. Jeez. I got diagnosed with...

i have never had a visual image of my pain (FM). I assume the researcher thinks they will change such visual images and thus change the pain. However, due to my incredulity viz a viz this article, I've started to yell at my pain. I feel better already.

I have trouble taking any research from traditional Chinese medicine academies seriously.

As a PwFM, I will (n=1) attest that adequate pain relief in fibromyalgia is attainable through medication only, if then. When pain is relieved, a miracle has occurred and one's mood shifts correspondingly. Moderate to severe pain is inherently catastrophic to the patient. That's the function...

why would famine be a deterrent to consuming milk?

I love how the researchers had to modify their protocol of 60 minutes of walking in 20 minute bouts with short rest periods. If they had read extensive literature, they would have begun with 20 minutes.

Why bile acids? What is their significance in the totality of the microbiome? 42 subjects and 42 controls, paltry.

Dialysis which I've performed removes excess electrolytes like potassium and sodium and adds a bit of bicarb buffer to the acidic blood. Excess urea is removed (patients smell a bit bad when they come in for their treatments). Proteins, like albumin are large and do not cross the membrane of the...

I left a comment on the TVIV website on the "leave comments" section addressing your concerns, I think. The virologists and Paul Offit should not have been so cavalier in their ha-ha it's only fatigue comments and laughter--it hurts and it's wrong. All they need to say is: we are not clinicians...

I would count their facetious treatment of fatigue as a symptom of their lack of expertise in the area of long covid. Everyone in the panel has her or his limitations in how much they know and dependent on what their area of specialization is. Offit is a vaccine expert. Well worth listening to...

Younger has already done trials of various herbs, a shot-gun approach, if you will. He has already done small naltrexone studies. The "let's trial any substance folks say works" does not inspire confidence.

Those figures are shocking. Defies rational standard of care for deliveries.

Making a general statement here. There's a big contingent of American woo in advocacy organizations and even some university research departments. The dissatisfaction with the way the medical establishment 'operated' 20 years ago or so, or the limits of what medicine knows and can do, led to...

Great imagination. Kind of shook me in a good way.

I think I experience PEM occasionally when overdoing or when getting sick with a bug. I resist the IOM diagnosis of ME because I don't feel severe fatigue at least half the time. Have no OI either. Maybe there is in me an overlap of FM/ME. But anyway, I had been coping with recent anxiety by...

We have no molecular mechanisms identified for either illness to distinguish them. In people with systemic autoimmune disease there is a lot of co-existing diagnosis and symptoms of FM. Does one cause the other, or are they related in molecular origins, are some of the symptoms too similar to...

Anti-cholinergic treatment is effective in FMS patient subgroups, and cholinergic signaling is a strong modulator of CNS and PNS immune processes..." news to me. Which drug might that be? This research (and I have absolutely no competence in assessing it) seems overly speculative and...

Nice to see some updated accommodations suggestions in the above since my time consulting the list in 1999 when I had to apply for disability (FM).