FM

I'm inclined to suggest to people who want to know what Lumigrate has to offer about chronic Lyme, fatigue, pain, neurological degeneration, etc. to  'just go to the forums at Lumigrate and look around, after you've looked at all the other links briefly and gotten the overview'.   read more »

I suspect that the 'sexual' aspect of this topic is getting people's attention. Combining this with the growing awareness by people with 'chronic illnesses', that I globally refer to on Lumigrate as 'the overlapping illnesses', becoming aware that Lyme is frequently part of the 'palate' of separate items their body carries and adds to the body's burden -- this is going to be a 'hot topic' going around the Internet I suspect. Hence I wanted to have a topic addressing it on Lumigrate.     read more »

Since Morgellon's Disease is known for the skin lesions, and is different from the other overlapping conditions that are more 'invisible' (Lyme, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, MS, lupus, etc.), the topic thread I initially created in 2013 and added onto it today in 2014 is in the aesthetics forum, but I wanted to create a topic here in this forum to route people to it if they 'put in here'. To clarify, the overlapping conditions have many of the same underlying reasons and have many of the same symptoms as well as some differences.  read more »

NEW information about fibromyalgia just went around the Internet like wildfire, once again. I've observed many waves of this in the five years since I've transitioned from a 100% in-person, face to face, 'brick and mortar' business format for educating people about fibromyalgia, which was a part of my business as an occupational therapist in an outpatient clinic by the end of that phase of my career in medicine, to 100% Internet-based as I did for a couple of years and then worked to doing a bit of both.  read more »

"Researchers say they have found physical proof that Gulf War illness is caused by damage to the brain — and that proof may ultimately help civilians who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia" the byline says, as you will see below, to this most interesting new finding out in the mainstream media recently.  read more »

How common is fibromyalgia (FM)?  read more »

 How common is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / CFS?  read more »

I thought it would be helpful to have a topic about my sinuses.  Not that it's the most 'entertaining' and 'pleasant' thing to write about, but it is something that comes up a lot with people.  Since many reading this might not know anything about me, I'll do an overall summary.   read more »

I realized that many of the pieces most read in the forums here at Lumigrate related to fibromyalgia are pieces where I cover things I see and review and feel are worthy of posting: I strive to make Lumigrate's information be valid, include the progressive/CAM approaches (as they frequently are getting at the underlying causes and yield dramatic results for less money overall, typically), which streamlines people's searching online by having a source that brings a lot of GRATE providers and topics together in one place.  read more »

 Fibromyalgia: Our Definition and Treatment Strategies at Renewed Vitality