Monthly Archives: May 2009

Men with Fibro GERALD’S STORY

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

I was diagnosed in 1987 with FMS/CFS. As I can recall, I started having symptoms after a car accident when I was in junior high. The pain, fatigue and cognitive problems started to take severe effect in my years of high school. Continue reading →

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Men with Fibro GREG’S STORY

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

Before I was diagnosed with this illness in 1996, my life was a nightmarish maze of dead ends with no exit sign. After being diagnosed, the maze turned into an obstacle course. Every day I learn more about overcoming these obstacles; Continue reading →

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Docs Fibromyalgia Story

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

Hello, My name is Bob Smith although everyone calls me “Doc” . I am the creator and web master of Fibronews.com and I thought that maybe my story should be told here as well. Continue reading →

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Dominie’s Fibromyalgia Story

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

My name is Dominie Soo Bush. I live in Green Cove Springs, Florida where I am a piano teacher and church musician. I developed fibromyalgia in 1982 when I was a 30-year-old legal secretary working under extreme pressure and deadlines for a busy law firm. I averaged about 2-3 hours of sleep a night due to job stress, coupled with a life-long tendency toward insomnia. Continue reading →

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Regulating the sugar factory in diabetes

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

The liver is the sugar factory for the body – when blood sugar (glucose) levels fall, the liver makes and releases more. In people with diabetes, especially Type 2 diabetes, the liver doesn’t stop making sugar when it should, so blood sugar levels can rise overnight while they sleep even though they haven’t eaten. Continue reading →

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More than a bad night’s sleep

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

Sleep apnea has long been known to be associated with obesity. But a new study published in the June issue of Diabetes Care finds that the disorder is widely undiagnosed among obese individuals with type 2 diabetes – nearly 87 percent of participants reported symptoms, but were never diagnose Continue reading →

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Action of ghrelin hormone increases appetite and favors accumulation of abdominal fat

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Doc

The ghrelin hormone not only stimulates the brain giving rise to an increase in appetite, but also favours the accumulation of lipids in visceral fatty tissue, located in the abdominal zone and considered to be the most harmful. T Continue reading →

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side effects of a cortisone injection

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Doc

Systemic side effects of a local injection of cortisone are rare and usually minor. Unlike taking oral steroids, or having cortisone injected directly into the bloodstream, only a small amount of a local injection is absorbed by the body. And since the body actually produces cortisone naturally, most people do not experience systemic effects. Continue reading →

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Triglycerides implicated in diabetes nerve loss

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Doc

To stall progress of neuropathy, doctors should monitor levels of an easily measured blood fat as closely as they do blood sugar, study suggests Continue reading →

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Ginseng — nature’s anti-inflammatory?

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Doc

Laboratory experiments have demonstrated the immunological effects of ginseng. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Translational Medicine have shown that the herb, much used in traditional Chinese and other Asian medicine, does have anti-inflammatory effects. Continue reading →

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