From: ImmuneSupport.com
By Colleen Black-Brown
There has been little information available from the scientific community on nutrition and diet for fibros. Research has not yet proven that any specific foods affect fibromyalgia (FM), positively or negatively. But we do know that eating a good balanced diet helps everyone’s body function at its best. Good nutrition can help in your health and healing. Eating healthful foods including those low in fat and high in immunity boosting antioxidants and phytochemicals may work together to help maximize energy and alertness and minimize constant fatigue and lethargy.
Many people have overcome their FM symptoms by changing their lifestyle and diet. Mary Moeller, author and spokeswoman on FM, now enjoys a state of remission from her FM symptoms by making a few changes in her lifestyle. To reach this ideal she advocates eliminating 4 foods completely from your diet (Mary Moeller’s Fibromyalgia Cookbook.)
1. Chocolate
2. Carbonated beverages
3. Coffee
4. Alcohol
Along with changes in nutrition she encourages stretching, exercising and drinking 8+ glasses of water a day. Also, in Mary Moeller and Joe Elrod’s book, The Fibromyalgia Nutrition Guide, they advocate a more complete list in order to overcome fatigue and feel your best. The 12 items to avoid are...
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The Fibromyalgia Diet: Eating for a Better Quality of Life
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Late and Chronic Lyme Disease: Symptom Overlap with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
From: ImmuneSupport.com
By Sam Donta,M.D.
Following the introduction of Borrelia burgdorferi into the skin by an infected tick, the organisms begin to spread both locally and systemically. Several days typically elapse before the appearance of the first sign of infection, i.e., erythema chronicum migrans (ECM), or other less typical rashes (29).
The rash occurs in fewer than 50% of patients with Lyme Disease (8,10), but the true incidence of Lyme Disease in the absence of a rash is unknown.
The occurence of multiple rashes is indicative of systemic spread of the organisms. Multiple rashes usually do not occur until 2-4 weeks following the initial tick bite. This is the same time period during which the organisms are being disseminated to their target tissues and cells. The incidence of multiple rashes was initially reported to occur in as many as 50% of cases, but has been much less common in the last two decades, probably because of frequent use of antibiotics. Approximately 4-6 weeks following the tick bite, the first systemic symptoms (other than multiple rashes) occur in some patients, usually in the form of "flu" (15). These symptoms include sore throat, severe headaches and neck aches, and severe fatigue. Rhinitis, sinusitis, and cough are not usually present, distinguishing this "flu" from other influenza-like illnesses. While the Lyme-flu symptoms can spontaneously resolve, patients can experience recurrent "flu"...
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Late and Chronic Lyme Disease: Symptom Overlap with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
By Sam Donta,M.D.
Following the introduction of Borrelia burgdorferi into the skin by an infected tick, the organisms begin to spread both locally and systemically. Several days typically elapse before the appearance of the first sign of infection, i.e., erythema chronicum migrans (ECM), or other less typical rashes (29).
The rash occurs in fewer than 50% of patients with Lyme Disease (8,10), but the true incidence of Lyme Disease in the absence of a rash is unknown.
The occurence of multiple rashes is indicative of systemic spread of the organisms. Multiple rashes usually do not occur until 2-4 weeks following the initial tick bite. This is the same time period during which the organisms are being disseminated to their target tissues and cells. The incidence of multiple rashes was initially reported to occur in as many as 50% of cases, but has been much less common in the last two decades, probably because of frequent use of antibiotics. Approximately 4-6 weeks following the tick bite, the first systemic symptoms (other than multiple rashes) occur in some patients, usually in the form of "flu" (15). These symptoms include sore throat, severe headaches and neck aches, and severe fatigue. Rhinitis, sinusitis, and cough are not usually present, distinguishing this "flu" from other influenza-like illnesses. While the Lyme-flu symptoms can spontaneously resolve, patients can experience recurrent "flu"...
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Late and Chronic Lyme Disease: Symptom Overlap with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
Treating Headaches & Muscle Spasms in Fibromyalgia
From: ImmuneSupport.com
By Dr. Richard L. Bruno
At least once a week I get a sharp pain on one side of my head, sometimes the left, most often on the right. I sometimes I wake up with a headache, but also get one at the end of the day when I am tired. My neck also hurts on the side where my head hurts and I often feel nauseated. One doctor says I have fibromyalgia. Another says migraines. But I don't have flashes in front of my eyes and I don't throw up. Is my headache a migraine? Is it due to fibromyalgia? Probably neither. Patients tell me they have migraine headaches because there is pain on one side of the head plus nausea. But despite nausea, most people with headaches don't have migraines. Headaches are most often the result of muscle spasms in the neck, upper back and shoulder muscles. When a muscle on one side of the neck goes into spasm it causes not only a one-sided headache but also pushes on the vagus nerve in the neck -- the nerve that makes the stomach "turn on" -- and causes nausea. Such single-sided headaches sound like migraines, but aren't. What's more, we see many people with headaches, back and neck pain who are diagnosed with fibromyalgia but whose pain is actually due to muscle spasms.
What causes muscle spasms? Spasms are triggered by physical and emotional stress. Physical stress can be doing too much and becoming fatigued or having "painful" posture. Painful posture is sitting or standing with your back looking like a C: your head falling forward, upper back curled over, shoulders elevated, being bent forward at the waist or tilting to one side (by the way, sitting at the computer may be the #1 cause of painful posture.) Emotional stress can be anything from the slings and arrows of living in the 21st century to the hard-driving, pressured, overachieving, work-till-you-drop Type A lifestyles that many CFS/ME patients have.
How do you treat headaches and other muscle spasm pain?
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Treating Headaches & Muscle Spasms in Fibromyalgia
By Dr. Richard L. Bruno
At least once a week I get a sharp pain on one side of my head, sometimes the left, most often on the right. I sometimes I wake up with a headache, but also get one at the end of the day when I am tired. My neck also hurts on the side where my head hurts and I often feel nauseated. One doctor says I have fibromyalgia. Another says migraines. But I don't have flashes in front of my eyes and I don't throw up. Is my headache a migraine? Is it due to fibromyalgia? Probably neither. Patients tell me they have migraine headaches because there is pain on one side of the head plus nausea. But despite nausea, most people with headaches don't have migraines. Headaches are most often the result of muscle spasms in the neck, upper back and shoulder muscles. When a muscle on one side of the neck goes into spasm it causes not only a one-sided headache but also pushes on the vagus nerve in the neck -- the nerve that makes the stomach "turn on" -- and causes nausea. Such single-sided headaches sound like migraines, but aren't. What's more, we see many people with headaches, back and neck pain who are diagnosed with fibromyalgia but whose pain is actually due to muscle spasms.
What causes muscle spasms? Spasms are triggered by physical and emotional stress. Physical stress can be doing too much and becoming fatigued or having "painful" posture. Painful posture is sitting or standing with your back looking like a C: your head falling forward, upper back curled over, shoulders elevated, being bent forward at the waist or tilting to one side (by the way, sitting at the computer may be the #1 cause of painful posture.) Emotional stress can be anything from the slings and arrows of living in the 21st century to the hard-driving, pressured, overachieving, work-till-you-drop Type A lifestyles that many CFS/ME patients have.
How do you treat headaches and other muscle spasm pain?
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Treating Headaches & Muscle Spasms in Fibromyalgia
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