Inexpensive Drug Appears To Relieve Fibromyalgia Pain
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| ... "I felt overall pain to the point that even when my children or husband just touched me it hurt."... ..."I am really, really good," Campbell said. "Having said that, I'm still not 100 percent. I'm still not that person I was before." Campbell was one of 10 women with fibromyalgia to take part in a small pilot study at Stanford over a 14-week period to test the new use of a low dose of a drug called naltrexone for the treatment of chronic pain. ..."Even after the study, it just got better and better and better," Campbell said. "I... |
HEALTH CARE AND FIBROMYALGIA
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| You hurt all over, and you frequently feel exhausted. Even after numerous tests, your doctor can't find anything specifically wrong with you. If this sounds familiar, you may have fibromyalgia according to the Mayo Clinic. |
Fibromyalgia Affects Women More Often Than Men
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| Fibromyalgia Affects Women More Often Than Men ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2008) — Are you exhausted? Do you have pain all over but can’t figure out what’s wrong? If so, you may be suffering from fibromyalgia, a chronic condition that causes exhaustion, sleep disturbances and diffuse pain in your muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Fibromyalgia patients experience a range of symptoms of varying intensities that increase and decrease over time and often resemble other conditions. For years, because of their complex nature and a lack of research on the condition, many doctors misdiagnosed fibromyalgia symptoms or dismissed them as being in the... |
Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat the pain condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors. For patient advocacy groups and doctors who specialize in fibromyalgia, the Lyrica approval is a milestone. They say they hope Lyrica and two other drugs that may be approved this year will legitimize fibromyalgia, just as Prozac brought depression into the mainstream. But other doctors — including the one who wrote the 1990 paper that defined fibromyalgia but who has since changed his mind — say... |
No More Super Woman
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| Sometimes, the life of a Fibromite becomes very complicated. Whether it's the drugs, the symptoms, the mental incapacity, or maybe just trying to live your life as normally as possible - things get in the way. Things that I love so dearly - like writing and gardening, had all but come to a halt in my world over the past few weeks. The heat? Kids out of school? Who knows - but I was absolutely off-kilter. I was beginning to believe the people around me who kept saying - 'you have to get off those drugs. What are you doing... |
Woman finds relief from fibromyalgia
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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It's been described as "the worst flu you ever had" and pain that never goes away. Fibromyalgia affects some 3 million to 6 million Americans -- primarily women. Many struggle just to convince their doctor of their pain because symptoms are varied and no test can diagnose it. One woman finally found an answer herself. (snip) Darlene discovered the key to her relief was in the foods she ate and those she eliminated. The trigger seemed to be a substance called excitotoxins. It's found in monosodium glutamate, high fructose corn syrup, even vegetables high in glutamate. Without it, Darlene is...
Can a dietary supplement pick up the pieces? (joint pain)
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| Can a dietary supplement pick up the pieces? Glucosamine, often recommended for joint pain, is one of the most popular supplements on the market. And considering the health concerns recently associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications, I thought it would be worth looking into whether glucosamine lives up to the hype.Background: Glucosamine and chondroitin are often combined together and used to treat osteoarthritis (OA), which occurs when the cartilage covering the end of the bone near the joint breaks down. OA affects the knees, backs, hips, hands and feet of more than 21 million people over age 45. And, according to... |
Fibromyalgia - Can someone explain to me what I did wrong?
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| I just posted a question a few moments ago regarding FMS, and wondered if anyone else here suffered with it. I went back to see I had 7 replies and 80 something plus views, clicked on it, and recieved a message it had been pulled due to 'commercial spam'. Now, I am VERY new here, and really love this place, and I sincerely apologize - but I do not know what I did wrong. I know we are able to post our opinions and questions - which is why I went to opinions/vanity. I mentioned collecting research for my website,... |
What are Nanobacteria?
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| The term Nanobacteria is short for its scientific genus & species name Nanobacterium sanguineum, a Latin scientific term that means blood nanobacteria. Nanobacteria are nano-sized in that they are from 20-200 nanometers in size and are the smallest known self-replicating bacteria (a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter and is approximately the width of ten hydrogen atoms side-to-side) Nanobacterium sanguineum is recognized as an emerging infectious disease. Nanobacteria have been shown to cause the calcification in coronary artery disease and vascular disease atherosclerotic plaque. (Miller V, et al, Mayo Clinic, Journal American College of Cardiology, March 2002 & Submitted... |
Gene Helps Determine How Much You Hurt
Friday 30th of July 2010 10:14:22 AM
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| WASHINGTON (AP) — Inheriting a variation in a single gene can determine whether a person will be a wimp or a stoic when it comes to handling pain. University of Michigan neuroscientists put healthy young adults inside a brain scanner, made them hurt — just temporarily — and proved that carriers of the ``stoic'' gene version really can tolerate more pain. The discovery emphasizes the need to customize pain treatment and might even allow doctors to soon try predicting which patients will respond to a certain kind of medication. People's perceptions of pain are tremendously variable. A substantial blow to... |
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