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I love how she puts OCD in that category of CSS. Why not toss in some watermelons?

Why study stress in FM patients---it seems harder to assess and too general a category. You can have a stressful situation that is separate from pain in FM. It may interfere with self-care, but it may not in itself be a pain generator. I would like to see a study with this low dose, slow...

Unique form of English used. Not even an attempt at translation. Hilarious! To add though, I'm being chauvinistic. When researchers in other parts of the world are forced or encouraged to publish scientific research in English and they haven't had the educational opportunity of studying English...

Credit to them for qualitative research, listening to how the illness affects these patients. I am somewhat heartened by this. Except this information is already available and valid if one were to do a review of medical literature. Why repeat it, why not spend the money or brain power (ahem) on...

I don't think 'peripheral stimulation' has anything to do with transcranial magnetic stimulation (which is used to treat severe depression and is being studied for use in FM and other disorders). This remedying thingie sounds akin to a TENS unit albeit with different electrical properties. But...

I'm sorry but Remedee for the name of a 'serious' medical device? May your wishes some true.

Interesting effect on long-covid for some. Paxlovid is to be used (per Dr. Daniel Griffin on TWIV, latest episode May 7, 2022) at least here in the USA, for people over age 65 if they have a positive test. Or anyone who has significant co-morbidities (diabetes, heart or lung disease, obesity)...

I wouldn't trust anything in that website as accurate. It appears to be a promotion/sales related website. Healthline, indeed.

I did not read the generic article or what it refers to. I was reacting to what I thought I knew about knee arthritis. What I base my decisions on what to do, what meds to take is the 2019 OARSI guidelines. But surely you are right that it's mere clinical hearsay about synovial lubrication...

Walking is strongly encouraged for knee arthritis (up to a point, that pain shouldn't continue after the two-hour point post walking). This activity stimulates synovial fluid lubricating the joint, the light pounding or weight bearing of walking stimulates fluid release. I have found that my...

No treatments for FM "work" so let's just throw CBT paint on the wall and interpret the splotches. That's the gist of most so-called research or review articles about FM, and I suspect about ME and a peck of other diagnoses. Sure, if you're down on yourself, get the gist of the negative...

The authors used only one questionnaire (RAND SF-36, the short form health survery) to assess FM people at three time points. I doubt then that the questionnaire captured the panic and heightened anxiety felt by all during the pandemic. Though it could be there was some feeling that "now...

In my n=1 experience of FM, walking causes fatigue. It is not a panacea for pain. It can lift mood. Or it can worsen pain. All depends. What is their meaning of 'rumination' in this hodge-podge of variables thrown into a statistical soup? They don't say. Is it pain thoughts, general anxiety...

In the very brief report of a type of multi-factor intervention of 35 patients (drop out number?) that has been in use for at least twenty years for FM and chronic pain patients. The patients were assigned to the treatment group or the control group based on whether they could attend the weekly...

Authors are from the department of psychiatry. Surprise, surprise.

I think first of all the researchers need to determine the medicinal chemistry of the Chinese medicine before they dive into the diagnostic hay pile. What are the molecular compounds involved? If there are some tradional medicines that are beneficial, that's great. Where is the quality control...

Unfortunate pseudo-science piece taking advantage of FM (etiology unknown) to make hyperbolic, unsubstantiated claims regarding causation resulting in FM due to unrelated medical occurrences such as pre-existing joint hypermobilty, Covid infection, ANA positivity (present in non-SARDS* people at...

I would like to see the oil companies and chemical companies responsible for plastic manufacturing be regulated first by reducing the number of unrecylcable plastics to a small number of recyclable ones. Why do we need so many different grades/types of plastic wrap for example. I grew up with...

I had 3x a week interactions (3-4 hrs on average per day's session) for twenty years with hemodialysis patients. They all complained of fatigue at EVERY session, except perhaps for those in their early twenties, who from time to time had energy to enjoy parts of regular life. The lack of renal...

I wish calcium would work for me, but they are something I take all the time per osteopenia. Can't do any action repetitively but do I learn from my mistakes? It's typical of FM (fibromyalgia) I think. Things get wacked out pretty easily.