fibromyalgia

Just found this by chance: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/682d905a-0aad-412a-b4be-7088c2e3405b “It feels like all my nerve endings are on fire” Georgina Harvey, 28, from Berkshire has fibromyalgia: a long-term condition that causes chronic pain all over the body. One morning in July...

This is the kind of article I hate. Trying to be sympathetic but perpetuating the psychological myth. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kirsty-young-must-go-softer-on-herself-during-break-from-desert-island-discs-2pkjdbfbn Includes: I worry, though, that Young’s affliction is a form of...

7-minute video on the BBC website today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-45369402/fibromyalgia-like-red-hot-lava-radiating-through-my-body

Open access at https://www.hindawi.com/journals/prm/2018/9014232/

Paywalled at https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017275 Article on the study, https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/892416

I don't know any more about this - just copied from an incoming post: Title: The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Third Edition Chapter: 25. Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes Authors: Michael C. Sharpe...

Bateman Horne Center will be a recruitment center of the Precision Medicine Initiative for ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. NIH Announces Precision Medicine Initiative

Paywalled at https://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(18)30428-6/fulltext

Paywalled at https://www.medical-hypotheses.com/article/S0306-9877(18)30364-5/fulltext

Fibromyalgia: A Short Commentary Frederick Wolfe and Brian Walitt Walitt is at the NIH working on the NIH Post-infections ME/CFS Study who thinks ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, and Lyme Disease are psychosomatic. This "commentary" was the beginning of the end for Fibromyalgia patients. Fibromyalgia...

ICD-11 Fibromyalgia - MG30.01 Chronic widespread pain

Fibromyalgia Page on MEpedia

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200057

Have yet to watch it, but given Dr Systrom's SFNP findings, this may be interesting...

EpicGenetics just contacted me and left me a message about a vaccine they are offering for Fibromyalgia patients which they have had very good success with and are trying to get FDA approval for a formal research project. They have been using a Fibromyalgia blood test that is covered by Medicare...

Source: Canadian Family Physician Vol 64, #6, pp 413-415 Date: June 2018 URL: http://www.cfp.ca/content/64/6/413 Report: Time for Leadership: Recognizing and Improving Care for those with ME/CFS, FM and ES/MCS...

Open access at https://www.dovepress.com/fascial-preadipocytes-another-missing-piece-of-the-puzzle-to-understan-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-OARRR

Open access at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2018.00094/full

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Abstract Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome characterized by widespread muscular pain, fatigue and functional symptoms, which is known to be difficult to diagnose as the various symptoms overlap with many other conditions. Currently, there are no biomarkers for FM, and the diagnosis is made...