FIBRO & THE INSTANT POP STAR COUNTDOWN

By Jeanne Hambleton © 2007
It is now count down time for Cass and Jess who are fighting for a winning place in the Instant Pop Star competition and need your vote.
The original request to vote for Cass and Jess singing ‘These Words’ on www.instantpopstar.co.uk came to me from a fibromite who describes herself as a [...]

F IS FOR FIBROMYALGIA

by Jeanne Hambleton © 2007
Hello. It is me again, waffling on about fibromyalgia and this and that.
This morning I am feeling very up beat as I now have three new friends. I have received lovely emails from fibromites including an invitation from a lady called Kathy to visit Arizona and stay with her. Elle [...]

Melatonin therapy in fibromyalgia.

Reiter RJ, Acuna-Castroviejo D, Tan DX.
Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. reiter@uthscsa.edu.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a painful syndrome that is more common in women than in men. Whether FM has an organic basis or whether it is psychosomatic is debated. Of [...]

LADY LAUGH-A-LOT

aka Jeanne Hambleton © 2007
As I am not as young as I once was – well who is – and the spring has decidedly gone out of my step – thanks to fibromyalgia – so I spend much of my time surfing the net.
Now don’t get confused – I don’t get wet or use [...]

Chronic fatigue syndrome and related disorders in UK veterans of the Gulf War 1990-1991: results from a two-phase cohort study.

Ismail K, Kent K, Sherwood R, Hull L, Seed P, David AS, Wessely S.
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK.
BACKGROUND: The aim was to determine the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia in UK military personnel after the Gulf War 1990-1991.MethodA two-phase cohort study was used. [...]

Fibromyalgia Folly or Happy Holiday

Well, I do not know if things are different where you live, but the weather – mainly the cold and rain – are the main reasons we British think about getting away on holiday. Although many full-time workers now get 4 or 5 weeks paid holiday in the UK, most of them can only afford [...]

Fibromyalgia syndrome in young children: onset at age 10 years and younger.

Eraso RM, Bradford NJ, Fontenot CN, Espinoza LR, Gedalia A.
Department of Pediatrics, LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital, New Orleans, USA.
OBJECTIVE:To report our experience of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) in young children with onset at age 10 years and younger as compared to older children.
METHODS:Clinical and laboratory data were reviewed in all patients that had [...]

WYSIWYG

Did you guess what WYSIWYG meant? Ten brownie points – go to the top of the class if you did. For those of us who might be a trifle slower (i.e. fibromites), it means WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. Yes it took me a time to work it out.
This is part [...]

FIBRO FLAIR

I struggle on with my aches and pains trying not to bore folk with my ‘pain in the butt’ – yes it really are fibromyalgia down there. But there are times when I feel particularly humble and this is one of them.
I think you will agree with me when you read this little story. [...]

The Impact of Chronic Diseases: The Partner’s Perspective.

Baanders AN, Heijmans MJ.
From the Social Sciences Group, Sociology of Consumers and Households, Wageningen University, Wageningen (Dr Baanders), and the NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht (Dr Heijmans), the Netherlands.
A chronic physical disease not only has direct consequences for the chronically ill person but can also distort the life of the healthy partner. [...]