Welcome to Grand Rounds! This is volume 6, number 6…. and the 6th time I am hosting… during the week of Halloween. Does anyone else find that creepy coincidentally satanic fascinating?! (Incidentally, if you are reading this through RSS, I am aware that the formatting is less than optimal. Very sorry about that and we are trying to fix it!) For this edition, I thought we could go out Trick or Treating on Medblogger Lane. I’m sure we will find some colorful stories along the way… Th

It's odd and difficult to blog about my medical woes here, since the Blend has become more of a political coffeehouse discussion space than a personal blog, so I'll save the details for below the fold so folks can opt out to avoid the TMI zone and scroll down to the next post. It has been surprising how much mail I've received here and on Facebook from readers regarding my open discussion about living with fibromyalgia , from diagnosis to living with it while doing this full-time blog

Oct.27, 2009 Health and Fitness Tags : 40s, anger, Antidepressants, chronic fatigue, depression, Dysthymia, Emotional Issues, fibromyalgia, Good Personality, Grief, Lotto Game, Mainstream Medicine, Medication, Mental Illnesses, Psychiatric Conditions, Psychiatric Services, Relatives, Stress Events, Success Stories, Trauma, Traumatic Experiences, Treating Depression, Treatment Of Depression, Unexpressed Emotions, Upbringing Related Posts:What Does Healing Childhood Experiences Mean?Wellbutrin

Seriously, this is the worst bed head I’ve ever had. I think the hour I spent hitting the snooze button had something to do with it. I know, I sleep in Hello Kitty pj’s. What can I say? I’m still a girl at heart. Posted in all about me, beauty, Big Hair, blogging, blogs, Bragging, Breaking news, Detroit bloggers, Digital Photography, Fibromyalgia, Hello Kitty, Michigan Bloggers, photography, photos, pop culture, random thoughts Tagged: bed head, entertainment, funny, humor, life,

Excess glutamate in specific brain region linked to FM pain sensitivity Central pain augmentation resulting from enhanced excitatory and/or decreased inhibitory neurotransmission is a proposed mechanism underlying the pathophysiology of functional pain syndromes such as fibromyalgia (FM). Migraine with skin sensitivity highly associated with FM, ME/CFS or IBS Cutaneous allodynia (CA) in migraine is a clinical manifestation of central nervous system sensitization. Several chronic pain