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Fibromyalgia and Craving Chocolate?

A number of fibromyalgia sufferers are craving chocolate. There's a good reason for that. Cacao contains a high amount of magnesium! People, like in fibromyalgia, who lack magnesium are craving for chocolate.
In fact, chocolate craving is often a sign of magnesium deficiency. They don't teach that in med schools and your doctor most probably doesn't know about it but it's a fact!
The risk is the huge intake of sugar and calories explaining why we are a society of malnourished and obese people.
So, you're not at fault! You're just trying to compensate for your lack of magnesium.

Sodium Oxybate: Another Threat to Fibromyalgia Sufferers

Sodium Oxybate is now in phase III trial. A result on fibromyalgia over 14 weeks (seems to be the magic number for a life long disease!) has just been presented. About 50% of patients had a decrease of 30% or more of their pain.

Is That All?

Will such a small result justify to expose so many patients to GHB. Because that's what sodium oxybate is! A recreational drug that expose its users to addiction, withdrawal symptoms, seizures etc... The list is really long and you can have a look at it on

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=meds&log$=drug_bottom_one&part=a605032

Here is a dangerous drug whose mode of action is on the NMDA receptors (and their trigger, the AMPA receptors). We already had ketamine (analogue to LSD or big K for the junkies) that is acting on the NMDA receptors. Now they add this one!
Magnesium is not dangerous and acts on the NMDA receptors. But for sure, it does not represent a multi-billions market!

Let's hope this one does not pass the board. We don't need to add more misery to fibromyalgia.

Say goodbye to tender points!

The title of this article did attract me. "Say goodbye to tender points" seems the right way to go for diagnosis. But then, the test is done on tender points as felt by the patient. And worse, it requires a subjective evaluation and a minimum score of Fatigue.

In the article, the author already says that Fatigue is almost always present. So if you have fibromyalgia and no fatigue you are left undiagnosed.

In the free test that we offer, about 6% do not complain of Fatigue but all had a probability of suffering from fibromyalgia that was more than 50%. In fact, all of those but one did complain of poor sleep.

So they have poor sleep but do not complain of fatigue. Perhaps they do not relate fatigue to their subjective evaluation of their status when others with the same status would complain of fatigue. Perhaps their personality or their stress activity does not allow fatigue to be taken in account as such. Perhaps they do not understand the word. Perhaps they forgot to tick it. No one has the same reaction when confronted with the same problems. Some people put everything inside and they by pass some feelings that others would complain about.

There was a famous study in Sweden that was looking for headaches after a procedure. Whilst the rest of the world had an incidence of 50-60%, that study showed an incidence of 93%! The way the questionnaire was done would have given a headache even without the procedure!

The same error is made again in diagnosing fibromyalgia: without objective tests, it will remain a probability diagnosis. A probability above 50% needs consideration. A probability below that needs to be followed up because it may indicate a symptomatically starting condition.

New developments in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome: say goodbye to tender points? Wilke WS. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 2009 Jun;76(6):345-52

"Fibromyalgia is not life-threatening and does not reduce life expectancy"? Rubbish!

Have a look at http://www.fibromyalgia-information-relief.com/fibromyalgia-news-page3.html and you'll see why life expectancy is probably reduced and why those stupid statements go against the human rights of fibromyalgia sufferers.