By Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix It is frustrating for those of you suffering from fibromyalgia (FM) as there is no blood test or biopsy or other investigation that definitively proves you have the condition, and there are still health care professionals who feel it is a vague entity at best. This makes it hard to claim disability […]

by Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix We have already written about fibromyalgia in a couple of our previous newsletters: what it is, and how it is linked to sleep quality. Over the years I have heard from fibromyalgia sufferers that they waited months to see rheumatologists to either diagnose and suggest treatment for their condition, only to […]

by Jackie Gardner-Nix and Rosa Raponi Newton We dealt with the symptoms of fibromyalgia in the June Newsletter.  Now a word about stress hormone changes. The stress hormone: Cortisol. Research is showing that normal stress hormone “rhythms” may be lost in people suffering fibromyalgia (FM), which is not good for health and vitality. In well people […]

by Dr Jackie Gardner-Nix and Rosa Raponi Newton It used to be called Fibrositis, now, Fibromyalgia (FM), and there is a move to calling it Chronic Widespread Pain Syndrome. These names simply describe a condition that hurts in many places, and often changes day to day, moment to moment, in where it hurts most. Studies […]