Fibromyalgia Studies
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There has been extensive Fibromyalgia Studies done. See some of the research that offers SOLUTIONS to fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Fibromyalgia Studies
Fibromyalgia and Diet Research
Celiac Disease and Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia and Thiamine Deficiency
Vitamin D and Fibromyalgia
See the Fibromyalgia and Vitamin D page for more detailed information about the connection between these two issues.
- A review of myofascial pain and fibromyalgia – factors that promote their persistence
- An excess of widespread pain among South Asians: are low levels of vitamin D implicated
- Vitamin D and Muscle Function
- Hypovitaminosis D Myopathy Without Biochemical Signs of Osteomalacic Bone Involvement
- Vitamin D deficiency and aging: implications for general health and osteoporosis
- Sunlight and Vitamin D
- Too little vitamin D in premenopausal women: why should we care
- Vitamin D Deficiency: What a Pain It Is
- MYOPATHY AND NEUROPATHY ASSOCIATED WITH OSTEOMALACIA<- Fibromyalgia Studies suggest that Neuropathy and myopathy is from MULTIPLE nutritional deficiencies.
Critique of a Study
A critique of the Study Vitamin D Deficiency Is Not Associated With Nonspecific Musculoskeletal Pain Syndromes Including Fibromyalgia.
This study was a response by a doctor to the study 'Prevalence of severe hypovitaminosis D in patients with persistent, nonspecific musculoskeletal pain' in which nearly 90% of patients in a pain clinic were found to be Vitamin D Deficient. This doctor did his own study on the fibromyalgia patients in his clinic and found Vitamin D to have no benefit.
I wanted to comment on his Vitamin D and Fibromyalgia Research as to the likely reasons WHY his patients had no improvement with the vitamin d, and why if he had more experience or knowledge with using the vitamin, that his patients may have had more benefit:
1) He used Vitamin D2. If you read the Prescription Vitamin D page, you'll see that vitamin d2 by prescription is NOT recommended.
2) He chose a sample of patients with SEVERE vitamin d deficiency of less than 10 ng/ml then treated them for 8 weeks total. 8 weeks of 50,000 IU's of vitamin d in patients with levels of 10 ng/ml is simply not going to correct a deficiency that severe. So, by treating them inadequately, he left them still vitamin d deficient and expected the treatment to work.
3) He didn't optimize blood levels. He did a baseline level and treated for 8 weeks. On my Vitamin D Deficiency Treatment page, researchers recommend testing levels after 8 weeks and retreating until levels are between 50 to 80 ng/ml.
4) He didn't give a Magnesium Dosage with the vitamin d. Vitamin D requires magnesium in order to get converted into its active form in the blood and the vast majority of fibromyalgia and chronic pain sufferers are already magnesium deficient.
5) He didn't let enough time pass. Other studies that have studied the effects of vitamin d and muscular pain and weakness have shown that it may take up to 6 months to see the full resolution of muscular effects of Fibromyalgia and Vitamin D administration.
So, doctor- you expected Vitamin D to be a 'Magic Bullet' and it's not. If you had designed your informal study with these actions in mind, your patients may very well have had better results. Now you believe that vitamin d doesn't help these patients when it most CERTAINLY does in many of them. Since you started out using vitamin d in the wrong way, now you'll never see the incredible benefits that vitamin d can have on your patients. What an incredible shame.
Fibromyalgia and Magnesium
Selenium and Fibromyalgia Studies
- Selenium and magnesium status in fibromyalgia.
- The relationship between serum trace element levels and clinical parameters in patients with fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia and Diet
Fibromyalgia in Children
**Not one of these Fibromyalgia Studies sought to find the CAUSE of Fibromyalgia in Children- only to study how often it occurs and how to diagnose it. What a sad state when even researchers are not interested in finding out WHY fibromyalgia symptoms in children occur. **
- Primary juvenile fibromyalgia. Psychological adjustment, family functioning, coping, and functional disability
- Juvenile fibromyalgia : Clinical and polysomnographic aspects
- Fibromyalgia Syndrome in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Features at Presentation and Status at Follow-upPediatric fibromyalgia
- Juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome
- Fibromyalgia in children; diagnosis and treatment.
- Assessment of nonarticular tenderness and prevalence of fibromyalgia in children
Celiac Disease and Fibromyalgia
- Altered intestinal permeability in patients with primary fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia: The gastrointestinal link
- Presentations of Adult Celiac Disease in a Nationwide Patient Support Group- 9% of patients with Celiac Disease had a PRESENTING symptom of Fibromyalgia.
- CELIAC DISEASE AND DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS
- Symptom overlap and comorbidity of irritable bowel syndrome with other conditions
- Fibromyalgia- where to begin?
Fibromyalgia and Thiamine Deficiency
Immune System Dysfunction
- Cytokine patterns in fibromyalgia and their correlation with clinical manifestations
- Circulating Cytokine Levels Compared to Pain in Patients with Fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia, Hepatitis C Infection,
and the Cytokine Connection
- Cytokine Fluctuations over time in Fibromyalgia Patient
- Integrated Review of the Association of Cytokines with Fibromyalgia and Fibromyalgia Core Symptoms
- Neuroendocrine immunology of fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia and Autoimmune Diseases: the Pain behind Autoimmunity
- Systematic review with meta-analysis: cytokines in fibromyalgia syndrome
