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Category Archives: Fibromyalgia
Treating Peripheral Triggers in Fibromyalgia (FM) Helpful
Tweet Just treating Infraspinatus and Trapezius triggers will drop pains in FM by 20% – renewing interest in idea that a portion of FM is peripherally driven.
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Quick Rating of Fibromyalgia Severity
Tweet The Fibromyalgia Impact questionnaire now appears as a series of Visual Scales that makes progress easy to follow.
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Fibromyalgia Sleep Disorder Treatment Success Highlights Narcoleptiform Sleep Disorder
Tweet High proportion of cases of Fibromyalgia (FM) and Chronic fatigue subjects had sleep studies and HLA body marker abnormalities suggestive of narcolepsy and responded to Sodium Oxybutate
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High Brain Insula Glutamate Confirms Fibromyalgia Central Hypersensitivity Idea
Tweet The idea sufferers of Fibromyaglia have pain amplifying circuits got confirmation with finding of high glutamate (pain transmitter) in insula of the brain. It’s like the brain is on fire… /////////////////////////// WOMEN WITH FIBROMYAGLIA! NEED HELP WITH SURVEY!!!. PLEASE … Continue reading
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Sick Muscle Mitochondria Seen in Fibromylagia Cases
Tweet /////////////////////////// WOMEN WITH FIBROMYAGLIA! NEED HELP WITH SURVEY!!!. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY ////////////////////////// ——————-Mitochondria are the energy furnaces in the cell. When they don’t work you run out of “gas” and the cells get sick. Degenerating mitochondrial, low … Continue reading
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Mortality in Fibromyalgia
Tweet There is some good new and bad news in a recent study /////////////////////// WOMEN WITH FIBROMYAGLIA! NEED HELP WITH SURVEY. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY ///////////////////
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Fibromyalgia – Simple Home Treatment
Tweet Stand up with one leg bent up. Position two mirror over the bend up leg so its reflection looks like you have both legs up. This gives patient an amazing sensation of weightlessness. Hold position for 30 seconds and … Continue reading
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Fibromyalgia – XMRV Virus Connection Strengthened With Chronic Fatigue Virus Study
Tweet Recent negative virus connection studies were found to use poor PCR probes that may be only positive in 7% of cases ////////////////////////////////////// WOMEN WITH FIBROMYAGLIA! NEED HELP WITH SURVEY. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY ////////////////////////////////////
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Women With Fibromyalgia Please Help With Survey
Tweet PLEASE help with Survey re Fibromyalgia and Dermographia located below: (click link below) http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/mikem/dermographia-in-fibromyalgia/
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If Fibromyalgia is a Mast Cell Skin Disease, Would Tanning Help? – No but..
Tweet Finding Mast Cell accumulations up to 15 times normal in the skin of Fibromyalgia (FM) subjects has raised the question whether FM is a skin condition causing a tenderness there. This has sparked my interest in dermatological treatments. A … Continue reading
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Is Fibromyalgia a Mast Cell Disease – like some “somatization diseases” such as migraine, TMJ, irritable bowel, and interstitial cystitis
Tweet WOMEN WITH FIBROMYAGLIA! NEED HELP WITH SURVEY, PLEASE CLICK HERE —————- Sorry – trying to change fonts has duplicated some areas… It is become increasingly clear that so-called “somatization” “psychosomatic” diseases are associated with abnormal concentrations of mast cells … Continue reading
Growth Hormone Deficiency Common in Fibromyalgia But Where is Evidence That Rx Helps That Much?
Tweet A recent abstract (not article) was published finding that baseline growth hormone and peak growth hormone levels (after insulin reaction provocation) were diminished in Fibromyalgia ,but prior article attempts of growth hormone supplementation looked disappointing to me.
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Cytokine Inflammation Diseases Will Be the Diseases of the 21st Century
Tweet Cytokine (Immune chemical) diseases will become more clear in the ensuing years. Recently Tension headache was associated with higher Interleukin-6 levels.
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How One May Obtain Significant Relief Pain With Over the Counter (OTC) Meds – Using Dextromethorphan
Tweet NOTE – many drugs could be effected by treatment below (and potentially dangerously) and so this should be supervised by your doctor or your pharmacist -especially if on Warfarin. There are rare cases of Dextromethorpan “Benylin cough syrup” dependence … Continue reading
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New Tool For Fibromyalgia Diagnosis Clinically
Tweet A series of 6 self-administered questions proved helpful in delineating fibromyalgia risk. A cut-off of 5/6 positive answers “gave the highest rate of correct identification of patients (87.9%), with a sensitivity of 90.5% and a specificity of 85.7%”.
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Dextromethophan For Diabetic Neuropathy, Fibromyalgia, and even Uncontrollable Laughing
Tweet Technique was devised to beef up dextromethorphan (DM cough syrup) ) by combining it with quinidine sulfate which prevents the former from being metabolized
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Milnacipran For Fibromyalgia – Only Good On Paper?
Tweet Article in press using large number of cases, demonstrates statistical superiority of Milnacipran in Fibromyaglia. Although thoroughly disguised, absolute results don’t look that great.
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What Does It Take to Feel Substantially Better In Fibromyalgia?
Tweet In order to get significant improvement in quality of life, 30% and preferably 50% improvement of pain needs to be reached. Unless you are a responder, no one medication is guaranteed to do that
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Do Some Victims with Fibromyalgia(FM) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome(CFS) Have Sleep Genes?
Tweet Recent study analysed daytime drowsiness in FM/CFS using abnormally fast time to fall asleep (sleep latency); 80% had abnormal tests. They found gene type HLA DQB1*0602 was obtained in 74 (43%) of subjects – which is 5 times what … Continue reading
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Do Gut Germs Affect Your Mood and What Hath We Wrought With Newer Ulcer PPI Pills That Cause Bacterial Overgrowth?
Tweet Study from McMaster University Ontario found oral antibiotic treatment in mice resulted in changes in bacterial flora that increased anxiety-like behaviour. Gut Bacterial Overgrowth found in 50% of people on Proton Pump Inhibitor Ulcer Pills. Are these pills driving … Continue reading
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