Posted on September 29, 2007 by FMS Global News
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 [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2007 by FMS Global News
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 [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2007 by FMS Global News
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. [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2007 by FMS Global News
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 [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2007 by FMS Global News
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. [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2007 by FMS Global News
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. [...]
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