WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that could alter pain treatment, British scientists have found that undamaged nerve fibers, not injured ones, cause ongoing spontaneous pain. The unexpected finding that may help in the development of new treatments for back problems and other conditions that involve chronic pain. Previous research into chronic pain focused on nerve fibers damaged due to injury or illness, and largely overlooked intact nerve fibers. ”The cause of this ongoing pain and why it arises spontaneously was not understood before,” Sally Lawson, of the U ...
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I spent a couple of years and several doctors, all who told me that I had fibromyalgia. The trouble with fibromyalgia is that no one seems to know what it is, what causes it, or how to treat it (at least in Western Medecine). ”Fibromyalgia” is an exclusionary diagnosis, meaning they label you with it when they don’t know what’s really wrong. My life was SAVED when I read a post on Curezone from someone who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and finally after years of pain found out that she had Lyme. This post saved my life, because a couple of weeks ago I was tested and came up absolu ...
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Ok, so, I’ve been to two doctors and they both have diagnosed me with fibromyalgia. (It’s my opinion that fibro is most definitely an *infectious* disease, perhaps based on Lyme or other mycoplasmal infection, but hey what do I know). SO I have been trying to get well now for about a year and a half. I’ll save telling you all everything I’ve tried for another post, but I wanted to talk specifically about something. OK, so one of the things I have noticed about this disease is that the symptoms seem to get much worse right before and during my period. So it’s like PMS that makes yo ...
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I think there is a lot of merit to the hypoxia theory. One of the symptoms of my fibro has been a large amount of petichiae all over my body. Petichiae are small red dots caused by broken blood vessels. I was reading one of the many novels I read while spending my life on the couch with this disease lol, and actually in several of the books I have read they cite petichiae as showing up on a person who has been strangled or had their air supply cut off. Hmmmm..... Also, I read somewhere else that pain in the extremities in particular is caused by our actual blood cells becoming miss ...
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