Dose-dependent Effects of TENS for Pain Relief in Fibromyalgia Dose-dependent Effects of TENS for Pain Relief in Fibromyalgia
This meta-analyis aimed to determine the effect of TENS on pain in individuals with fibromyalgia as it relates to dose. Is the effectiveness of TENS dose-dependent?Pain (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - August 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery Journal Article Source Type: news

Sign in the morning that could signal long-term condition fibromyalgia - ‘See a GP’
A warning sign of fibromyalgia could strike right when you wake up. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Review IDs Certain Higher Mortality Risks for Patients With Fibromyalgia
FRIDAY, July 14, 2023 -- Patients with fibromyalgia have an increased risk for mortality, particularly from infections and suicide; however, they appear to have a lower risk for death due to cancer, according to a review published online July 10 in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - July 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Fibromyalgia Tied to Higher Risk of Death From Many Causes
WEDNESDAY, July 12, 2023 -- For years, people with the widespread pain disorder fibromyalgia were told their symptoms were all in their heads, but now the illness is being taken much more seriously with good reason. Folks with fibromyalgia are more... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Chronic pain disorder written off by doctors as 'imaginary' drives thousands to suicide, study warns
A review published Monday in RMD Open found that fibromyalgia patients have a 27 percent greater risk of dying from accidents, infections, and suicides than the general population. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pharmacist shares 'warning' signs of fibromyalgia - plus how to treat it
From problems with sleep to feeling too hot or cold, an expert lists the different ways fibromyalgia could be drawing attention to itself. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pain-Related Brain Changes in Fibromyalgia May Be Reversible
Although fibromyalgia is quite common, affecting more than 5 million Americans, it continues to be misdiagnosed and misunderstood. In fact, the average time for a patient to get diagnosed with fibromyalgia can be as much as 5 years. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - June 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Oral Agent Cuts Fibromyalgia Pain in Trial, But ...
(MedPage Today) -- Fibromyalgia patients hoping to see a more effective and convenient formulation of cyclobenzaprine at their local pharmacies must wait for an ongoing phase III trial -- the product's third -- to finish, as the first two delivered... (Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology)
Source: MedPage Today Rheumatology - May 16, 2023 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news

Most antidepressants prescribed for chronic pain lack reliable evidence of efficacy or safety, scientists warn
Largest ever investigation into antidepressants used for chronic pain shows insufficient evidence to determine how effective or harmful they may be.Study reviewed commonly prescribed medications including amitriptyline, duloxetine, fluoxetine, citalopram, paroxetine, and sertraline.One third of people globally are living with long-term pain with many prescribed antidepressants to relieve symptoms.Most antidepressants used for chronic pain are being prescribed with “insufficient” evidence of their effectiveness, scientists have warned.A major investigation into medications used to manage long-term pain found that harms ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - May 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news

Fibromyalgia Is Risk Factor for Opioid Use Disorder Exacerbations
WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2023 -- Fibromyalgia is a risk factor for pain-related exacerbation of opioid use disorder (OUD), according to a study published online March 14 in PAIN. Orman Trent Hall, D.O., from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 19, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

DR MARTIN SCURR: Is severe tiredness 'chronic fatigue' or something else?
DR MARTIN SCURR: Fibromyalgia typically causes fatigue, poor sleep patterns, problems with memory and persistent chronic pain. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

I Feel Like I ’m Burning Alive. It ’ s Hard for People to Believe Me
In 2018, I woke up on my birthday around 2 or 3 a.m. with a funny feeling in my left hand. It started as a slight itch on my thumb that quickly morphed into a different sensation—the feeling of the thumb beginning to swell, followed by the same feeling in my fingers and sections of my palm, until my hand was almost double its normal size. Later that morning, I visited an orthopedist I’d seen once or twice before for other reasons. He gave me a shot to prevent further swelling, and I went on my way. It was an unremarkable visit. Soon after, another strange thing happened: My hands began to feel like they were on...
Source: TIME: Health - February 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Je Banach Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance health Source Type: news

UCLA receives $20 million to establish Goodman –Luskin Microbiome Center
Key takeawaysA $20 million gift from Andrea and Donald Goodman and Renee and Meyer Luskin will fund a new center at UCLA focused on the microbiome and its effect on health.Investigators  at the new center will study the microbiome’s role in disease prevention and the body’s immune response.The enterprise will be led by Elaine Hsiao,  UCLA ’s De Logi Professor of Biological Sciences.Among the most promising areas of scientific inquiry is the study of the human microbiome and its effect on health. To fuel more rapid progress in this field, Andrea and Donald Goodman and Renee and Meyer Luskin have made a $20 million g...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 15, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

It Isn ’ t Just Long COVID. Post-Viral Illnesses Are More Common Than You Think
In the 1980s, many people in the medical community treated chronic fatigue syndrome as a punchline. Some doctors dismissed patients’ debilitating symptoms, including crushing fatigue and crashes after exercise, as figments of their imaginations. Media outlets even dismissively nicknamed the condition “yuppie flu,” since many cases were reported among affluent white women. In the infectious-disease clinic where Dr. Lucinda Bateman was at the time finishing her medical training, some doctors didn’t want to bother treating chronic-fatigue patients. When Bateman left to go into private practice, she rem...
Source: TIME: Health - December 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

COVID-19 Is Still Upending Holiday Plans —and Inspiring Some Families to Make New Ones
Julie, who is 38 and lives in North Carolina, considers herself, her husband, and their two children “zero COVID people.” Motivated by studies about COVID-19’s potential long-term effects on the body, they orient their lives around not getting the virus. That means avoiding indoor spaces where people won’t be masked, often wearing masks outside, and seeking out service providers who are still taking precautions, such as masking and using air purifiers. For the most part, Julie says, this is fine. “There’s not a whole lot we don’t do,” she says—they just do it all in hig...
Source: TIME: Health - November 23, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news