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About Me:: I have a unique combination of qualifications, with over 20 years of experience in providing practical, easy to understand health information. As a fibromyalgia patient, I have put together a lot of useful tips through both research and first-hand experience.

It took me three years of pain and searching to get a doctor to tell me what was wrong, and countless trials of medications to be able to get up and go to work each day. I started putting together information about fibromyalgia and gradually learned about things that helped. Through my experience as a health information/communications worker, I was able to understand and organize the information in a way that I realized would be helpful to others.

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Estrogen and pain

New research shows that there is more than one estrogen receptor. We're familiar with the estrogen alpha receptor. This is the one that can go bad and signal cells to multiply uncontrollably, resulting in breast or ovarian cancer. Now scientists have discovered estrogen receptor beta, that seems to put the brakes on cell growth. A team led by Heather Harris of Wyeth Research in Collegeville, PA, found that drugs that increase estrogen receptor beta decrease inflammation. Jan Ake Gustafsson has a… Continue

Posted on February 7th, 2008 at 12:08am — No Comments (Add)

Reduce frustration with your doctor

We could have told them this! Researchers in Germany found that fibromyalgia patients had frustrating interactions with their doctors. They came up with a shared decision-making training program for the doctors. Then they did a study where some patients were chosen by chance to either get a shared decision-making or get regular treatment plus a computer based information package. All patients got the same treatment options. There were only 85 patients in the study, 44 who ended up in the grou…

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Posted on January 4th, 2008 at 12:59pm — No Comments (Add)

What's wrong with me?

A lot of people with fibromyalgia feel pain all over, and find that their bodies overreact to stress. A lot of doctors will tell them that they are just "nervous" and need to learn to handle stress better. This study showed that there is a problem with how the adrenal glands of people with fibromyalgia react to stress. The adrenal glands are tiny glands that sit at the top of your kidneys. Their job is to release cortisol into your bloodstream in response to stress. If you have ever had to ha…

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Posted on January 3rd, 2008 at 12:10pm — No Comments (Add)

The weather and fibromyalgia

You knew it! Now it has been demonstrated scientifically. Fibromyalgia patients feel more aches and pains in cold and damp weather. Researchers had 955 patients with number of different problems like arthritis and fibromyalgia fill out pain logs. Their conclusion: "In our study as well as in literature we found that a high percentage of patients (70 percent) perceived that weather conditions influenced their pain and disease. Fibromyalgia patients seemed to be strongly influenced by weather c…

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Posted on December 27th, 2007 at 7:11pm — No Comments (Add)

Fibromyalgia-a different type of pain

One of the problems that many people with fibromyalgia face is that there are no tests that definitively show that you have fibromyalgia. However, what scientists have learned quite a bit about what causes fibromyalgia what goes wrong to create whole body pain. There are some genetic factors that have been shown to be related to a higher risk of getting fibromyalgia. In addition, stress can be a factor, including physical, like car accident,

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Posted on December 25th, 2007 at 10:27pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 1:31pm on January 3rd, 2008, Stephanie Fischetti said…: Hi Sharon,

I was interested in reading about dopamine and fibromyalgia. I wonder, since too much dopamine in the brain causes symptoms of psychosis, and not enough causes Parkinson's disease, if someone taking a medication to inhibit dopamine, like Risperdal or Abilify, has a lot of aches and pains, feels burnt out does not respond to stress well, could they be on too high of a dose? Or to put it another way, could the medication cause fibromyalgia-like side effects?