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I'm wondering: omicron is to become endemic, say most all, but what if and when another powerful variant comes along...will it/could it displace the endemic omicron, do you think? Probably no one can foretell.

thanks for that. Guess that's why I residually love trees so much.

I think it best to go back walking on all-fours and relieve the fascinating researchers of their subject matter.

I have a smaller optic nerve on one side. And history of having increased ocular pressure during menopause years, which reverted to normal pressures. Guess I won't be doing a trial of pregabalin anytime soon. I tried gabapentine, did nothing but make me dizzy and I'm already blonde (or...

I am not fond of the first author (Frederick Wolfe) of the referenced study above. Here is another paper he contributed to: (re: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Body Distress Syndrome and Fibromyalgia) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32305723/ For the record, Frederick Wolfe decried giving PwFM that...

Wow, resistance exercises, especially in the upper body. As person with moderate to severe FM, I could NEVER participate. I have tried too many times, making myself worse for a week or more. Exercise is NOT the first option of treatment though that meme has been forced down doctors' throats...

A huge chunk of a doctor's job is to show compassion. Or at least interest. Bedside manner. The relationship counts. That said, if the doctor finds being compassionate a problem, then he/she needs to make the time to yell and scream at the squash ball or punch pillows (and call patients names...

The FIQ and later revised of FIQ-R (fibromyalgia impact questionnaire) was developed at OHSC (univ of oregon health science center) by the group led by London-trained rheumatologist, Dr. Robert Bennett, recently deceased, a compassionate and excellent scientist/clinician who discovered the low...

Some researchers (a relative term) have built their careers developing 'valid' instruments (like the Chalder fatigue scale, the FIQ {fibro impact questionnaire) that are 'validated' to be accurate no matter who administers the test, or who the patient is. One problem is that the instrument is...

The abstract's wording is a little misleading. Although the author states early on that fibro "is neither an illness nor a disease" (I would differ and say simply 'etiology{cause} unknown'). Still, the 26 women and 2 men, or at least some of them, were extensively quoted as to how the...

To me, a systematic review is just a literature review, the first thought before embarking on a tentative project for research, before an hypothesis. Unless you can hack off every bit of each study to figure out whether they tested what they say they tested and see that all the parameters (like...

Social support in fibro: a husband and friends who stick with you when you get sick. Friends who take you on outings to places you love on a regular basis. A doctor who expresses compassion whenever you mention your FM. He/she asks: how are you doing with your FM these days and lets you speak...

Mayo Clinic...who else would simpleton this. What on earth could a patient with FM learn from an approach that isn't specific to FM (though many FMers do have IBS). I am for specialized clinics with intelligent, compassionate, and dedication MDs and staff. Talented human beings to relieve...

Here's a research report about attentional bias regarding chronic headache in which they conclude: "It is concluded that both hypervigilance and sustained processing are critical factors for the maintenance of chronic pain." my bold The 2010 research report...

A painful grimace like a three-year-old about to tantrum. My neighbor uses this expression to express sympathy. A most annoying grimace and I hope that type of painful expression wasn't used in the study. Why would a painful expression in an image evoke attention to pain itself in a FM patient...

It's been several years since the pilot study of LDN for FM by Younger. I'm glad they got funding to scale this up, even though the results of the pilot study (if pilot is the term) were over-hyped, perhaps. This is good news. Younger thinks that the glia (in brain) are instigators and...

I wonder what the impetus for this questionnaire was in the mind of the student PhD candidate Perhaps the student met one person or even several with one of said conditions whose emotions seemed over the top, or was depressed or despondent. Life circumstances (a break-up of a romance, the...

I doubt whether all the long covid patients targeted will have had extensive testing to rule out organic (autoinflammatory and organ damage.) This is because health care for long covid is lacking and there is no national insurance program in the US, and that so many have lost their jobs and...

At least these aren't some arcane supplements. Magnesium if skin absorbed and by-passing the gut (diarrhea, cramping) may be useful for pain.

Yup. Shringrix ain't fun.