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A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia

This page lists all 41 updates for one article on PainScience.com, A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia. See also:


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SMar 22A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Minor improvements, alcohol section — Added some reader comments, a footnote about neuroticism and alcohol, and did a little editing.
LMar 20A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, about alcohol use disorder and alcohol hyperalgesia.
SMar '23A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Added content — Added fast breathing exercises (hyperventilation) to the list of treatment options worth considering.
LDec '21A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, ozone therapy.
SSep '21A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sidebar — Added a bit of comic relief: “Demon tries to inhabit my body … and regrets it.”
MSep '21A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Revised — Significant improvements to the clarity of some tricky concepts.
LJul '21A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, fibromyalgia transplanted to mice in blood.
SJun '21A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Science update — Added two token citations about cannabis for fibromyalgia. “Token” because the evidence barely exists.
L2021A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section — An entire new section dedicated to a correction: fibromyalgia is not (clearly or officially) a “diagnosis of exclusion.” However, it’s an interesting question to dive into, so I wrote a whole new section about it.
M2021A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Science update — Added citation and significant discussion of Mascarenhas et al, a huge 2020 meta-analysis of treatments for fibromyalgia. I gave some extra attention to the evidence on cognitive behavioural therapy.
S2021A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Clarification — Added some new emphasis on how difficult fibromyalgia treatment is. People seem to think there must be a treatment for it, but there really isn’t. This disease remains extremely puzzling and generally untreatable, and that point needed to be made more strongly.
S2020A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Good news update — Added superb news about “New Graded Exercise Warning on Current ME/CFS Guideline.
S2020A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Clarification — Added still more emphasis to the distinction between an explanatory diagnosis and a descriptive one, including a good example of this common point of confusion.
S2020A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Science update — Added brief discussion of (and a reference for) the prevalence of fibromyalgia before multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
M2019A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Comprehensive edit — All kinds of little corrections and improvements, collectively significant.
L2019A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section.
M2019A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Re-written — Although I have always liked describing fibromyalgia as a “medical UFO,” I was never really happy with my explanation of that analogy. Today I re-wrote it, clearer and briefer, and I think I finally got it right.
L2019A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section.
L2018A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section.
M2018A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sub-topic — Added leaky gut syndrome.
M2018A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Expanded — Added an exercise strategy tip based on some expert opinion (Lagerman, Booth).
L2018A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section.
S2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Science update — Added minor citation to Cook et al on the neural consequences of exercise in CFS/ME patients.
S2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Science update — Added minor citations to Light et al on heritability of fibromyalgia.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Science update — Added two key citations to Heffez 2004 and Heffez 2007 about the link between fibromyalgia and myelopathy: both fascinating, surprising, and important studies.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sub-topic — Added discussion of PACE and graded exercise therapy to the exercise section.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sub-topic — Added repressed emotions.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, The fatigue connection, CFS vs ME.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, Stress and fibromyalgia.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sub-topic — Added adrenal fatigue.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sub-topic — Inflammation as a driver of sensitization, based on new evidence of an “extensive inflammatory profile” in fibromyalgia patients (Bäckryd).
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for fibromyalgia.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New section, Exercise for fibromyalgia, with some evidence-inspired tips.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Expanded — Added more and better descriptions of relevant medical specialities.
L2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — New sub-topics — Added small-fibre neuropathies and positional cervical cord compression.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Improvements — Added an introduction (“everything causes everything”!), and items about B12 deficiency and celiac disease.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Added detail — Added more detail about positional cervical cord compression.
M2017A Rational Guide to Fibromyalgia — Substantive editing.

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