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20 Years and ME/CFS Is Still Hard To Adjust To

Mar 6, 2010 5:21pm

The past 2 to 3 weeks have been extremely difficult as I fight another ME/CFS flare. Everytime I have a bad flare, I feel like I did when I first got sick. I’m scared, frustrated, angry, confused, depressed and feeling so sick I don’t think I can go on. To...

ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia News Around the Web

Mar 3, 2010 6:20pm

Cooking With Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome It’s hard to avoid cooking, but I sure wish I could! I was OK with it before I had fibromyalgia, but now the very thought of it stresses me out. If I’m doing something really simple and familiar, cooking’s not too bad. When I...

Updates On XMRV Findings In Studies

Mar 3, 2010 5:35pm

The XMRV studies have been the talk of most ME/CFS websites these days and the one organization paying the most attention to the XMRV studies is the CFIDS Association. The CFIDS Assoc. President, Kim McCleary, and their CFS specialist, Dr. Suzanne Vernon, have been providing great updates in emails and...

Post-Exertional Malaise – the CFS Symptom That Doesn’t Know the Difference Between Work & Play

Mar 1, 2010 4:48pm

When my husband and I first started dating, we were on the go nonstop. I went from a marriage to a man who never took me anywhere or did anything with me to a man who was on the go all of the time. It only took about 3 months...

Would You Use Marijuana To Treat Fibromyalgia Pain?

Feb 24, 2010 6:54pm

I have been seeing a lot of stories on television lately about people who are using marijuana for medical purposes, particularly pain. Just today I read an article on Health.com that medical marijuana mey help fibromyalgia pain. Marijuana has been used for quite some time to help cancer patients with...

ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia Around the Web

Feb 24, 2010 5:22pm

Has The Advent Of Minimally Invasive Surgery Altered The Risk Profile Of Patients Undergoing Prostatectomy? A report from Columbia University Department of Urology in the online edition of Urology assessed whether the introduction of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has altered the selection characteristics of patients undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP). They did...

Epstein-Barr Virus Mentioned On Dr. Oz Show

Feb 22, 2010 7:28pm

Last week I was excited to see that the Dr. Oz show would be covering Epstein-Barr Virus. I thought to myself, “Finally – someone is going to explain how bad ME/CFS feels for us since they are related”. Boy, was I in for a big letdown. The whole segment on...

Really Sick – Will Post Soon

Feb 21, 2010 7:21pm

I apologize for the lapse in posting but I am currently having a bad CFS flare and I am not up to much of anything right now. I will post as soon as I am up to it. Related posts:Sick… Sorry I haven’t posted this week. I have been very... Please Read:...

Second XMRV Study In UK Reveals Negative Results

Feb 17, 2010 7:03pm

The CFIDS Association has reported that a second UK XMRV study, recently published in Retrovirology, has come up showing negative results. As we all know, the UK has a really negative attitude towards anything related to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. From the emails and other information I get from UK CFS...

ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia Around the Web

Feb 17, 2010 6:51pm

‘Secret Weapon’ of Retroviruses That Cause Cancer Oncogenic retroviruses are a particular family of viruses that can cause some types of cancer. Thierry Heidmann and his colleagues in the CNRS-Institut Gustave Roussy-Université Paris Sud 11 “Rétrovirus endogènes et éléments rétroïdes des eucaryotes supérieurs” Laboratory have studied these viruses. They have identified...