The Role of Dopamine in Your Brain
Stiff, achy muscles. Cognitive impairment. Loss of balance and coordination. Sound familiar? If so, you may have low levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. A lot of us with fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) do.
Tiredness that turned me into a total zombie
HOW do you go from a high-flyer to a bed-ridden zombie who finds even speech a soul-destroying struggle? To find out, you need look no further than Joe Green, a once hard-working financial director who reached the pinnacle of his profession only to plummet to unimaginable depths.
Woman Faces Battle with Fatigue
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate between 1 million and 4 million Americans have chronic fatigue syndrome. It is a condition marked by extreme fatigue that cannot be remedied with rest. At least 25 percent percent of those are unemployed as a result of the disease. Less than 20 percent of people with chronic fatigue syndrome in the U.S. have been diagnosed, according to the CDC. As with other autoimmune disorders, the cause is unknown. This is the story of one woman’s struggle with the condition.
Model Bianca Embley bares all for charity
Model Bianca Embley has posed nude for a charity calendar to raise funds for Fibromyalgia, a human disorder classified by the presence of chronic widespread pain. The former stewardess herself is crippled by Fibromyalgia, but has opted to put up a brave front by posing nude for the charity.
Support
The Bellevue Hospital and the Northeast Ohio Arthritis Foundation are teaming together to offer an arthritis and fibromyalgia support group. The Bellevue Area Arthritis/Fibromyalgia Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. in conference room A at the hospital.
Syndrome
” … people say to you, ‘Hey, shape up! Stop thinking only about your troubles. What’s to be de pressed about? Go swimming or play tennis and you’ll feel a lot bet ter. Pull up your socks!’ And how you, hearing this, would like noth ing more than to remove one of those socks and choke them to death with it.”
Mysteries of fibromyalgia remain unsolved for patients
Imagine hurting all over, every day, with no end in sight. Couple that with a physical exhaustion that never completely subsides, not even with adequate sleep and rest. Add in insomnia, brain fog and depression. The worst part — there’s no cure. Sufferers of fibromyalgia don’t have to imagine that nightmare. They live it. Daily.
What Does Low Serotonin Feel Like?
The symptoms of fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) are all over the map. Why would one condition cause pain, fatigue, binge eating, self confidence, and abdominal problems? It’s confusing and bewildering, not to mention way less than fun to live with!
Finding a way through the pain
Judy McClary, leader and founder of the Tidewater Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness Support Group in Chesapeake, holds monthly meetings at her house for those suffering from chronic pain or chronic illnesses. It is a place where people can come together and give each other support and encouragement.
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