fibromyalgia

Full title: Effects of attachment-based compassion therapy (ABCT) on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and low-grade inflammation among fibromyalgia patients: A randomized controlled trial Open access, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-52260-z

Review Neuroimmunology: What Role for Autoimmunity, Neuroinflammation, and Small Fiber Neuropathy in Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Adverse Events after Human Papillomavirus Vaccination? https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/20/5164/htm

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013419/full

According to this Medscape report https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/916994 Unfortunately for me, lifting my arms is never therapeutic. Strong floral odors can be unpleasant also. Surely the more severe cases (who couldn't reliably turn up at the venue) dropped out.

full title Dear Doctor: What Not to Say to Me and Other Fibromyalgia Patients although the author has ME/CFS full blog here https://themighty.com/2019/09/things-doctors-say-fibromyalgia-patients/

I got an email from the Jarud Younger Lab today touting a email conference led by a Dr. Aviles. So, out of journalistic curiosity, I signed up for the newsletter and started to get a series of daily emails by quacks who are doing their fall promotions. These are cash businesses. There's no...

Just wondering what the latest news is on ICD 11 Coding for both ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. @Dx Revision Watch

Capita seeks to reverse 'reputational damage' after death of claimant By Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News Benefit-assessment company Capita is going to court to try to reverse the "reputational damage" it says it suffered after a claimant died. Victoria Smith died...

Can You Reshape Your Brain's Response To Pain? NPR article, June 10, 2019 A fibromyalgia patient's recovery story, and the therapy she tried was developed by Schubiner who thinks ME/CFS is a Psychophysiologic Disorder...

Now published, see https://www.s4me.info/threads/predictors-of-new-onsets-of-irritable-bowel-syndrome-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-fibromyalgia-the-lifelines-study-2019-monden-et-al.10637/#post-267644 for link to paper Preprints with The Lancet...

Eleonora Gentile, Katia Ricci, Marianna Delussi, Filippo Brighina, and Marina de Tommaso, “Motor Cortex Function in Fibromyalgia: A Study by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy,” Pain Research and Treatment, vol. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2623161...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124648 Abstract Background Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also called chronic fatigue syndrome) may respond most favorably to frequent vitamin B12 injections, in vital combination with oral folic acid. However...

Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159119302089?via%3Dihub

Yesterday i read somewhere that fibromyalgia patient plasma injected into a rat resulted in the rat experiencing pain and tenderness to touch. It suggested an auto-immune component of fibromyalgia ( auto-antibody) being present in the plasma. Would anyone know where i found this? Thanks

BMJ Journals: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases: Autonomic and inflammatory changes in FM and ME/CFS and the contribution to signs and symptoms https://ard.bmj.com/content/78/Suppl_2/1920.1 Abstract Background Dysautonomia describes a group of conditions associated with a malfunction of the...

This is of interest because it is reporting amazing results (it is however a rather preliminary study). https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216079

Free full text: https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/repo/ouka/all/71746/ohs_05_055.pdf

Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399118307687 Sci Hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.pec.2019.04.016

Been asked to share this Spanish petition on social media but wondered if any of our Spanish speaking members could offer an opinion on the petitions demands i.e. are they the sort of demands that this forum would be likely to support...