Sunday, October 25, 2009
Yeast Infection
Yeast Infection have multiple manifestations and appears to be in connections with numerous allergies, more appropriate names for Yeast Infection is Candida Yeast that may be better and more descriptive for the symptoms of yeast infection, I participate in a private and new blog www.yeast-infection-2.com devoted to research and explore the health issues in connection with yeast infection. There are other terms and I believe could be used to better describe and diagnose the conditions of yeast infection such as Vaginitis, Thrush, Genital and Urinary Tract Infections, Rash. Also there seems to be a direct link with Digestive Problems, Bloating, Cramping, Gas and Diarrhea. Other symptoms like Chronic Fatigue, Loss of Libido, Sugar Cravings Weight Gain are more linked with hypothyroidism problems and issues of low thyroid functions, under performing thyroid glands but it is common for those individual suffering from yeast infection have these symptoms as well, after all the yeast infection are largely due and caused by the lower and weaker immune system, under performing secretions and glands that used to produce hormones that needed to proper body regulations and for some condition and medical reasons are not presently performing thus giving a ways for the yeast infection to develop in the body of the individual. Yeast infection are best described as bacterial overgrowth, yeast as bacteria present in our bodies permanently and only under weaker immune defense system yeast as bacteria overgrows its health proportions and cause many health problems and issues for the individual.
Yeast Infection and Hypothyroidism
Hypothyroidism is a failure of thyroid gland to perform as it should or as it used to be when we were young and healthy, in a similar way the failure of immune system to act as defense mechanism of our bodies affect our health in many ways, mostly negative for our health. Yeast Infection is a symptom of reduced capability of our immune system likewise immune system deterioration reduces performance and adaptability for change of our thyroid glands causing mostly hypothyroidism.
Millions of people do suffer from yeast infection but most of people neglect it waiting for our bodies e.i. immune system to pick up its work due to take care of our health in this regards, however it does not and many men and women continue to suffer from it. Other who decided to cure and take care of yeast infection likewise hypothyroidism issues, start from treating the outcomes of the conditions rather then pay more direct attention to the causes of these conditions.
Millions of people do suffer from yeast infection but most of people neglect it waiting for our bodies e.i. immune system to pick up its work due to take care of our health in this regards, however it does not and many men and women continue to suffer from it. Other who decided to cure and take care of yeast infection likewise hypothyroidism issues, start from treating the outcomes of the conditions rather then pay more direct attention to the causes of these conditions.
Yeast Infection and Immune system
Under certain individual health conditions, such as without limitation or particular order excessive stress, weakness due to the lowered immunity, constant fatigue and fast tiredness are mostly due to the failure of immune system to perform as it should. In some instances it can be caused by the long-term use of steroids, prescription drugs, then Candida yeast can as internal bacteria can multiply and outgrow its health level that currently present in the body of every healthy person. Yeast Infection may start developing in our digestive tract and disrupt the normal functionality level. Surprisingly but Candida overgrowth in our bodies may also be a consequence of antibiotic treatment, since the antibiotics nature is that it kills pathogens of the disease but also drastically decrease a large number of those bacteria that maintain our health. Yeast is a part of our healthy gastrointestinal flora and in some quantities is a healthy and positive bacteria, it is only when control of immune system reduces over the internal flora yeast outgrowth threatens our health.
Yeast Infection Outlook
Statistics for Yeast Infection is somewhat confusing www.yeast-infection-2.com, depending on the deference in measurement analysis and scope of the research the prognosis and understanding of the true epidemics of yeast infection among people are reaching up 85% of Americans in some researcher. I thinks it is largely due to the definition of yeast infection what to consider as yeast infection and to what degree the infection as the negative term should be accounted for. Likewise with all types of infection most of people who are infected do not realize that they have the infection, Candida Yeast is no different in this regard.
It is now commonly understood that Candida Yeast infection has a varying degree of presence and effect, it could be drastically manifested in a number of symptoms or could be a dormant with no apparent causes. Candida Yeast overgrowth occurs when our immune system is impaired by or /and due to our lifestyle and diets, food intake imbalance, various treatments. The level of Yeast Infection presence among people nowadays a reaching up epidemic proportions
It is now commonly understood that Candida Yeast infection has a varying degree of presence and effect, it could be drastically manifested in a number of symptoms or could be a dormant with no apparent causes. Candida Yeast overgrowth occurs when our immune system is impaired by or /and due to our lifestyle and diets, food intake imbalance, various treatments. The level of Yeast Infection presence among people nowadays a reaching up epidemic proportions
Yeast Infection Candida Albicans
Yeast Infection a commonly coined name for the internal infection medically called Candida Albicans has become a household name among many Americans and other people around the world, read more www.yeast-infection-2.com. It affect both health conscious people equally as those who do not pay much of the attention to their own health people. Some people "suffer" from invincibility syndrome, meaning that these people are generaly in good health and they believe that nothing will affect their health.
Candida is a yeast bacteria that constantly present in our lives in the our digestive system, and proportionally small quantities are healthy for the people since it maintain certain internal bacterial balance. However, yeast has the ability to change to negative when immune system looses its grip on the maintenance of the healthy balance in our bodies, then yeast bacteria grow outside it healthy proportions and colonize other areas of our bodies much to its only benefits at the cost of our health. Thus bacterial overgrowth may be called a fungus - much too negative name.
As a fungus yeast functions as an infection absorbing other healthy bacterias for its own growth thus causing our health a significant damage since it weaken our positive internal flora. In simplified terms it operates in a similar fashion to any other fungus that known to most of people like foot fungus and other alike.
Candida is a yeast bacteria that constantly present in our lives in the our digestive system, and proportionally small quantities are healthy for the people since it maintain certain internal bacterial balance. However, yeast has the ability to change to negative when immune system looses its grip on the maintenance of the healthy balance in our bodies, then yeast bacteria grow outside it healthy proportions and colonize other areas of our bodies much to its only benefits at the cost of our health. Thus bacterial overgrowth may be called a fungus - much too negative name.
As a fungus yeast functions as an infection absorbing other healthy bacterias for its own growth thus causing our health a significant damage since it weaken our positive internal flora. In simplified terms it operates in a similar fashion to any other fungus that known to most of people like foot fungus and other alike.
Monday, August 17, 2009
An immigrant from Russia has created a cure for radiation sickness
The U.S. company Cleveland Biolabs has developed a product that can protect people from exposure to radiation.
Until now, doctors could not find a cure for radiation sickness. The only way to prevent the consequences of radiation exposure were iodine pills, which prevent the accumulation of radioactive iodine in the thyroid gland.
However, the drug CBLB502, developed by geneticist Andrew Gudkova of proteins from Salmonella bacteria, a much more efficient. Effects on receptors of cells damaged by radiation, it hinders the process of apoptosis of cells and their mutations.
In laboratory studies on mice and monkeys Gudkova failed to prove that if the irradiated animals receiving the dose of radiation equal to the level of radiation in the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, within 72 hours after exposure received medication, 60% of cases survived, and recovering from the effects of exposure.
"Dirty" bomb is considered one of the most terrible threats to humanity, and the Department of National Security of the United States, as reported by Der Spiegel, hastened to jump at the chance to protect United States citizens from possible radiation exposure, invest in the development of the drug 40 million dollars.
In addition, it is assumed that CBLB502 can be used for the treatment of cancer, helping cancer patients cope with the effects of radiotherapy.
The owner of Cleveland Biolabs Israeli Yaakov Reisman, a former combat pilot IDF intends to develop tools and weapons to the security services the Jewish state, where as in the United States to create a stockpile of drugs adequate to protect the civilian population.
Cleveland Biolabs, noting the high interest of pharmaceutical companies around the world for their design, meaning that the annual income from the sale of funds of the order of 20 billion dollars.
Until now, doctors could not find a cure for radiation sickness. The only way to prevent the consequences of radiation exposure were iodine pills, which prevent the accumulation of radioactive iodine in the thyroid gland.
However, the drug CBLB502, developed by geneticist Andrew Gudkova of proteins from Salmonella bacteria, a much more efficient. Effects on receptors of cells damaged by radiation, it hinders the process of apoptosis of cells and their mutations.
In laboratory studies on mice and monkeys Gudkova failed to prove that if the irradiated animals receiving the dose of radiation equal to the level of radiation in the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, within 72 hours after exposure received medication, 60% of cases survived, and recovering from the effects of exposure.
"Dirty" bomb is considered one of the most terrible threats to humanity, and the Department of National Security of the United States, as reported by Der Spiegel, hastened to jump at the chance to protect United States citizens from possible radiation exposure, invest in the development of the drug 40 million dollars.
In addition, it is assumed that CBLB502 can be used for the treatment of cancer, helping cancer patients cope with the effects of radiotherapy.
The owner of Cleveland Biolabs Israeli Yaakov Reisman, a former combat pilot IDF intends to develop tools and weapons to the security services the Jewish state, where as in the United States to create a stockpile of drugs adequate to protect the civilian population.
Cleveland Biolabs, noting the high interest of pharmaceutical companies around the world for their design, meaning that the annual income from the sale of funds of the order of 20 billion dollars.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Life is a continual adjustment
We may have reason to live, without the wish to live, and in a struggle between reason and emotion, emotions seem always to win.
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In order to live long we must guard our emotional health as we guard our physical health.
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To keep life we must strengthen all our links with life and living.
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we are really working at living we need not be afraid of dying.
The best way to prolong life is not to shorten it.
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In order to live long we must guard our emotional health as we guard our physical health.
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To keep life we must strengthen all our links with life and living.
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we are really working at living we need not be afraid of dying.
The best way to prolong life is not to shorten it.
What Are Hormones?
The system of the internal or ductless glands, functioning with the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, is constantly engaged in meeting the changing conditions to which the individual is exposed. It does this by means of glandular secretions, which are called hormones.
The sex hormones were for a long time the hormones predominantly used in medicine, and for this reason people tend to identify hormones with the product of the sex glands only. They say, "My doctor gave me hormones," but this is like saying, "My doctor gave me capsules." There are probably hundreds of different hormones produced in the body.
Hormone is a general term, meaning the secretion of any one of the ductless glands, and there are a number of these glands. We call them "ductless" to distinguish them from the glands which have ducts or canals. Sweat glands, tear glands, salivary glands all have ducts and empty externally, on the outside of the body. Other glands, like those in the digestive system, empty within the body into an organ. The ductless glands empty directly into the blood stream.
The theory that inner fluids regulate the functions of the body goes hack to Hippocrates, who named four cardinal fluids responsible for health or illness: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. The four humors, as they were called from the Latin word for moisture, survive in our language as descriptive of four types of personality. A cheerful, confident person we call sanguine, from the Latin for blood.
The sex hormones were for a long time the hormones predominantly used in medicine, and for this reason people tend to identify hormones with the product of the sex glands only. They say, "My doctor gave me hormones," but this is like saying, "My doctor gave me capsules." There are probably hundreds of different hormones produced in the body.
Hormone is a general term, meaning the secretion of any one of the ductless glands, and there are a number of these glands. We call them "ductless" to distinguish them from the glands which have ducts or canals. Sweat glands, tear glands, salivary glands all have ducts and empty externally, on the outside of the body. Other glands, like those in the digestive system, empty within the body into an organ. The ductless glands empty directly into the blood stream.
The theory that inner fluids regulate the functions of the body goes hack to Hippocrates, who named four cardinal fluids responsible for health or illness: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. The four humors, as they were called from the Latin word for moisture, survive in our language as descriptive of four types of personality. A cheerful, confident person we call sanguine, from the Latin for blood.
How Not to Shorten Life
Can we guard ourselves against this shift of power away from the life-preserving force? Can we sustain the will to live?
The physiologist Rubner declared a generation ago that the best way to prolong life is not to shorten it. Today we are beginning to recognize that the first danger to length of life may not be the invading I'.crm, nor any physiological process beyond our control. We are beginning to understand that the first line of defense is in our emotional health.
If we are emotionally sound, we will be physically sound. Body and mind are one. When we truly want to be well, to live long and in health, we have the power to do it.
If grown children, who have long left their parents' home to live I heir own lives, come to a parent's bedside and say, however sincerely, "Live for our sake. We need you," the parent may be touched, but not really convinced. A mother whose children are immersed in their own lives knows when she is no longer needed as a mother. If she has not curried forward into her later years an interest apart from her children, something really meaningful to her, then she may not want to live.
The same may be true of a man who has retired from his business or profession, if he has lived solely for his work. When his work is published he may have nothing left to live for.
We need not come to this pass. If we live to our full capacity, not merely as parents, not merely as workers, but as mature, well-rounded human beings, then we will have something yet to live for even when work and parenthood are ended.
There are measures we can take, if we so desire. We can learn to r'i.ii.I our emotional health as we guard our physical health. We can make every effort to develop our fullest capacity as human beings.
The physiologist Rubner declared a generation ago that the best way to prolong life is not to shorten it. Today we are beginning to recognize that the first danger to length of life may not be the invading I'.crm, nor any physiological process beyond our control. We are beginning to understand that the first line of defense is in our emotional health.
If we are emotionally sound, we will be physically sound. Body and mind are one. When we truly want to be well, to live long and in health, we have the power to do it.
If grown children, who have long left their parents' home to live I heir own lives, come to a parent's bedside and say, however sincerely, "Live for our sake. We need you," the parent may be touched, but not really convinced. A mother whose children are immersed in their own lives knows when she is no longer needed as a mother. If she has not curried forward into her later years an interest apart from her children, something really meaningful to her, then she may not want to live.
The same may be true of a man who has retired from his business or profession, if he has lived solely for his work. When his work is published he may have nothing left to live for.
We need not come to this pass. If we live to our full capacity, not merely as parents, not merely as workers, but as mature, well-rounded human beings, then we will have something yet to live for even when work and parenthood are ended.
There are measures we can take, if we so desire. We can learn to r'i.ii.I our emotional health as we guard our physical health. We can make every effort to develop our fullest capacity as human beings.
Emotion Defeats Reason
The power of reason is formidable. It gives logical grounds for hope; it whips up new activity by revealing new possibilities. Probably this accounted for the days during which the patient showed outward improvement.
When reason and emotion are locked in battle, however, emotion eventually wins. There was the relapse, for which we physicians had no medical explanation. Coming the day after the patient's fast, the relapse might have been the result of physical exertion. Although through most of his life he had not observed the solemn holiday, this time he had chosen to fast against all the efforts of his physician and his nurse to dissuade him, as though he were preparing himself to meet his Maker. That very choice was a self-destructive act, in unconscious obedience to his triumphing destructive drive.
Later I learned that the holiday was also the anniversary of his father's death. I have observed that, just as a word of reassurance at a critical moment can inspire the creative instinct and raise a man once more to strive in his own behalf, so an alluring mental image can encourage the destructive drive and cause the patient to succumb. Especially when a system has already suffered strain, the thought of one's dead father or mother, of a wife or other beloved person who has gone before, beckons one to follow.
The death wish promises peace and surcease from struggle. But it does not rely upon lure alone, nor upon its power over the unconscious centers of the body. It pleads its case convincingly to reason too. No man lives forever. Why stretch a burdensome existence for just a few years more? The reward is not worth the effort.
And so a man shuts himself away from the outside world, not to hear the voices of those who love him, not to see the tempting glitter of fame which has already betrayed him, not to falter in his resolution to seek eternal rest.
The strange behavior of the sick, often so perplexing to their families and friends and even to their physicians, thus becomes understandable. When a man on his sick bed apparently fights with all his strength to recover, while his lips reiterate the assurance that he wants to live, the same man commits acts which are aimed directly at his own destruction. We who stand at the sick man's bedside are handicapped in our effort to understand him by the very fact that we ourselves are well. We attempt to evaluate a sick man's subjective experience, his feelings and his desires, with a healthy man's calm and reasonable objectivity and a healthy man's involvement in the work and relationships of living. But it is not what we would feel or desire, but the hidden inner resolution of the sick man which will determine the outcome.
When reason and emotion are locked in battle, however, emotion eventually wins. There was the relapse, for which we physicians had no medical explanation. Coming the day after the patient's fast, the relapse might have been the result of physical exertion. Although through most of his life he had not observed the solemn holiday, this time he had chosen to fast against all the efforts of his physician and his nurse to dissuade him, as though he were preparing himself to meet his Maker. That very choice was a self-destructive act, in unconscious obedience to his triumphing destructive drive.
Later I learned that the holiday was also the anniversary of his father's death. I have observed that, just as a word of reassurance at a critical moment can inspire the creative instinct and raise a man once more to strive in his own behalf, so an alluring mental image can encourage the destructive drive and cause the patient to succumb. Especially when a system has already suffered strain, the thought of one's dead father or mother, of a wife or other beloved person who has gone before, beckons one to follow.
The death wish promises peace and surcease from struggle. But it does not rely upon lure alone, nor upon its power over the unconscious centers of the body. It pleads its case convincingly to reason too. No man lives forever. Why stretch a burdensome existence for just a few years more? The reward is not worth the effort.
And so a man shuts himself away from the outside world, not to hear the voices of those who love him, not to see the tempting glitter of fame which has already betrayed him, not to falter in his resolution to seek eternal rest.
The strange behavior of the sick, often so perplexing to their families and friends and even to their physicians, thus becomes understandable. When a man on his sick bed apparently fights with all his strength to recover, while his lips reiterate the assurance that he wants to live, the same man commits acts which are aimed directly at his own destruction. We who stand at the sick man's bedside are handicapped in our effort to understand him by the very fact that we ourselves are well. We attempt to evaluate a sick man's subjective experience, his feelings and his desires, with a healthy man's calm and reasonable objectivity and a healthy man's involvement in the work and relationships of living. But it is not what we would feel or desire, but the hidden inner resolution of the sick man which will determine the outcome.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Illness is in the Mind of the Individual
Toward the end of the great century of mechanistic progress in medicine, resistance to this rigid formula began to grow. Doubts were expressed whether the sharp line between body and mind, between "scientific medicine" and neurology's young brother, psychiatry, could be maintained.
Psychiatry was the scorned orphan of medicine because its area, the diseases of the mind, stubbornly refused to give physical evidence of their presence. Psychiatrists endeavored to find the cause of mental disease in brain tissue, but all their brilliant anatomical research came to nothing except, for example, in general paralysis resulting from syphilis, and in senile dementia, the deterioration of the brain in old age. In these, at least, some physiological damage was discovered. Otherwise the most serious psychotics were found to have brains anatomically no different from that of any normal man.
But if brain anatomy proved to be a blind alley, progress was being made in the psychological research laboratories. Pavlov demonstrated scientifically by his conditioned reflex experiments that physical functions originate in a psychic impulse. Neurologists sought the nerve pathways by which the subjective idea in the mind is translated into physical action.
In France, Charcot brought order out of the chaos of nervous disturbances. His pupil, the young Freud, followed him through the chambers of the Salpetriere, observing the many unhappy human beings whose illness was not understood because it was of the mind.
From the neurology of his day Freud set forth in new directions to explore the dark world of the unconscious. For all that he was hooted at in the streets of Vienna, the early teachings of psychoanalysis had a dynamic impact which could not be ignored for long.
In 1914 a brilliant cure of toxic goiter (hyperthyroidism) by psychotherapy was reported in Germany. This was a case in which surgical treatment had been completely unsuccessful.
Signs of a change in medical thinking began to emerge, especially in gynecology. Freud's revelations of the depth and power of the sexual impulses gave pause to thoughtful medical men.
"There is too much minor gynecology and too little etiological [causal] thinking," wrote a leading professor of gynecology at the University of Berlin in 1925.
"... Their illness is a psychic conflict sailing under a gynecological Hag, which has escaped the attention of the quacks," declared the director of the Woman's Hospital of the University of Tubingen.
Elsewhere, and in other branches of medicine, the same questioning voices were heard. In such prevalent ills as heart diseases and gastrointestinal disorders, a literature began to grow on the possibility of psychic causes of physical illness.
Psychiatry was the scorned orphan of medicine because its area, the diseases of the mind, stubbornly refused to give physical evidence of their presence. Psychiatrists endeavored to find the cause of mental disease in brain tissue, but all their brilliant anatomical research came to nothing except, for example, in general paralysis resulting from syphilis, and in senile dementia, the deterioration of the brain in old age. In these, at least, some physiological damage was discovered. Otherwise the most serious psychotics were found to have brains anatomically no different from that of any normal man.
But if brain anatomy proved to be a blind alley, progress was being made in the psychological research laboratories. Pavlov demonstrated scientifically by his conditioned reflex experiments that physical functions originate in a psychic impulse. Neurologists sought the nerve pathways by which the subjective idea in the mind is translated into physical action.
In France, Charcot brought order out of the chaos of nervous disturbances. His pupil, the young Freud, followed him through the chambers of the Salpetriere, observing the many unhappy human beings whose illness was not understood because it was of the mind.
From the neurology of his day Freud set forth in new directions to explore the dark world of the unconscious. For all that he was hooted at in the streets of Vienna, the early teachings of psychoanalysis had a dynamic impact which could not be ignored for long.
In 1914 a brilliant cure of toxic goiter (hyperthyroidism) by psychotherapy was reported in Germany. This was a case in which surgical treatment had been completely unsuccessful.
Signs of a change in medical thinking began to emerge, especially in gynecology. Freud's revelations of the depth and power of the sexual impulses gave pause to thoughtful medical men.
"There is too much minor gynecology and too little etiological [causal] thinking," wrote a leading professor of gynecology at the University of Berlin in 1925.
"... Their illness is a psychic conflict sailing under a gynecological Hag, which has escaped the attention of the quacks," declared the director of the Woman's Hospital of the University of Tubingen.
Elsewhere, and in other branches of medicine, the same questioning voices were heard. In such prevalent ills as heart diseases and gastrointestinal disorders, a literature began to grow on the possibility of psychic causes of physical illness.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Fibromyalgia by products
When you feel tired, several causes are responsible. Fatigue late in the day, after an effort, is quite natural and is due to different problems.
Fatigue associated with "toxic"
Tobacco, alcohol and pollution we are pumping energy. Wherever possible, we should limit or avoid them.
An unregulated power supply
Fatigue may be due to shortcomings or deficiencies in certain nutrients.
Side effects of medicines
Some treatments (chemotherapy, anxiolytics, antihistamines ...) can have side effects such as asthenia (fatigue). The reactions are variable from one person to another, we must try different medications in the same class to see which is best supported, while remaining efficient.
Hormonal Problems
The decline in sex hormones and pituitary, age-related, or hypothyroidism, makes us more tiring. A doctor may check hormone levels and act accordingly.
Diseases
Hepatitis, HIV, cancer ... may be accompanied by fatigue. It may even be a first sign.
Fatigue associated with "toxic"
Tobacco, alcohol and pollution we are pumping energy. Wherever possible, we should limit or avoid them.
An unregulated power supply
Fatigue may be due to shortcomings or deficiencies in certain nutrients.
Side effects of medicines
Some treatments (chemotherapy, anxiolytics, antihistamines ...) can have side effects such as asthenia (fatigue). The reactions are variable from one person to another, we must try different medications in the same class to see which is best supported, while remaining efficient.
Hormonal Problems
The decline in sex hormones and pituitary, age-related, or hypothyroidism, makes us more tiring. A doctor may check hormone levels and act accordingly.
Diseases
Hepatitis, HIV, cancer ... may be accompanied by fatigue. It may even be a first sign.
Fibromyalgia
The pain associated with Fibromyalgia is sometimes triggered by overwork, after infection, the inoculation of a vaccine after a physical trauma (fall, surgery ...) or psychological (bereavement, divorce, redundancy ...). This is called reactive fibromyalgia.
Diffuse hypersensitivity to pain
Yet nevertheless it is difficult to characterize fibromyalgia. French to Congress of Rheumatology in December 2005, Professor Paul Le Goff has been defined "as a diffuse hypersensitivity to pain and allodynia widespread [abnormal perception of pain]," scientifically proven. For a fibromyalgia - and functional MRI shows by example - the response to a stimulus is more important than in a control subject, showing the reality of pain. These experiments are not suitable for a diagnosis. It remains based on a set of symptoms, which is why we call fibromyalgia syndrome.
Mechanisms of Fibromyalgia still unexplained
The doctor proceeds by elimination of other diseases that can trigger the same symptoms as inflammatory rheumatism, hypothyroidism, sleep apnea, drug myopathy (muscle damage associated with taking certain drugs) or depression.
The patient insisted on this approach for diagnosis that would not prematurely label on fibromyalgia pain that is unexplainable. "It must not become an" trash. " A young woman with Fibromyalgia just discovered that she had really a polyarthritis that was brewing, "says Beatrice Chateau-Car, the Association of fibromyalgia de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. In addition, a person with fibromyalgia may also develop a disease that causes widespread pain, we should not do everything on the account of fibromyalgia. "
The diagnosis, once asked, what was reassuring: it is not a serious illness. The patient is not out of the woods, because we still do not know what triggers these disorders - a physical cause, such as intoxication or a psychological cause?
Work over the last ten years have looked for possible links between his appearance and depression and anxiety disorders. The psychological cause is viewed with suspicion by the patients. Testimonies abound of unwanted among psychiatrists and psychoanalysts: "It was running in circles. I felt good, I think that I was not depressed and that is what he finally concluded, "I had a long psychotherapy. If it helped me in my relationships with others, it has not changed my pain ", etc..
For Carole Robert, delegate general of France Fibromyalgia, "there is a lot of depression in fibromyalgia, but that is the result of a disease that causes them to suffer and isolated."
A multidisciplinary care
Most experts agree on the idea that a combination of factors contribute to the condition fibromyalgia. A notice qu'entendent patients' associations, which, for refusing a "psychiatric" of fibromyalgia do not rule out a psychological component, as in many diseases.
Hence care is also multidisciplinary, competitive results, although uneven.
Drug in the arsenal, there is such as analgesics, some antidepressants and anxiolytics. With varying results, depending on the patients.
Relaxation, controlled physical activity, psychological treatments (including cognitive-behavioral therapy) and lifestyle have an essential place.
Massages, balneotherapy, physiotherapy, sophrology, hypnosis, homeopathy, acupuncture, cures, transcutaneous neurostimulator or soft gymnastics ... patients have resorted to all kinds of "technical", much of which end of alternative medicine. "But be careful not to" bricolage ".
We can try diets, but this must be done in a controlled manner to prevent shortcomings, "warns Michelle Judic, the Fibromyalgia Association of Morbihan, which also warns against so-called experts, some offer surgery.
Not serious, but disabling
While not, strictly speaking, a serious illness, fibromyalgia has a considerable impact on social life, at some point to prevent the continuation of the occupation. Not on the list of diseases of long duration, disabling his character is left to the discretion of the medical officers of Social Security. Which are still in their ranks, according to the associations, number of fibrosceptiques. The difficulty for the fibromyalgia is to be believed, but on that side, progress is being made.
Source : French medical press
Diffuse hypersensitivity to pain
Yet nevertheless it is difficult to characterize fibromyalgia. French to Congress of Rheumatology in December 2005, Professor Paul Le Goff has been defined "as a diffuse hypersensitivity to pain and allodynia widespread [abnormal perception of pain]," scientifically proven. For a fibromyalgia - and functional MRI shows by example - the response to a stimulus is more important than in a control subject, showing the reality of pain. These experiments are not suitable for a diagnosis. It remains based on a set of symptoms, which is why we call fibromyalgia syndrome.
Mechanisms of Fibromyalgia still unexplained
The doctor proceeds by elimination of other diseases that can trigger the same symptoms as inflammatory rheumatism, hypothyroidism, sleep apnea, drug myopathy (muscle damage associated with taking certain drugs) or depression.
The patient insisted on this approach for diagnosis that would not prematurely label on fibromyalgia pain that is unexplainable. "It must not become an" trash. " A young woman with Fibromyalgia just discovered that she had really a polyarthritis that was brewing, "says Beatrice Chateau-Car, the Association of fibromyalgia de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. In addition, a person with fibromyalgia may also develop a disease that causes widespread pain, we should not do everything on the account of fibromyalgia. "
The diagnosis, once asked, what was reassuring: it is not a serious illness. The patient is not out of the woods, because we still do not know what triggers these disorders - a physical cause, such as intoxication or a psychological cause?
Work over the last ten years have looked for possible links between his appearance and depression and anxiety disorders. The psychological cause is viewed with suspicion by the patients. Testimonies abound of unwanted among psychiatrists and psychoanalysts: "It was running in circles. I felt good, I think that I was not depressed and that is what he finally concluded, "I had a long psychotherapy. If it helped me in my relationships with others, it has not changed my pain ", etc..
For Carole Robert, delegate general of France Fibromyalgia, "there is a lot of depression in fibromyalgia, but that is the result of a disease that causes them to suffer and isolated."
A multidisciplinary care
Most experts agree on the idea that a combination of factors contribute to the condition fibromyalgia. A notice qu'entendent patients' associations, which, for refusing a "psychiatric" of fibromyalgia do not rule out a psychological component, as in many diseases.
Hence care is also multidisciplinary, competitive results, although uneven.
Drug in the arsenal, there is such as analgesics, some antidepressants and anxiolytics. With varying results, depending on the patients.
Relaxation, controlled physical activity, psychological treatments (including cognitive-behavioral therapy) and lifestyle have an essential place.
Massages, balneotherapy, physiotherapy, sophrology, hypnosis, homeopathy, acupuncture, cures, transcutaneous neurostimulator or soft gymnastics ... patients have resorted to all kinds of "technical", much of which end of alternative medicine. "But be careful not to" bricolage ".
We can try diets, but this must be done in a controlled manner to prevent shortcomings, "warns Michelle Judic, the Fibromyalgia Association of Morbihan, which also warns against so-called experts, some offer surgery.
Not serious, but disabling
While not, strictly speaking, a serious illness, fibromyalgia has a considerable impact on social life, at some point to prevent the continuation of the occupation. Not on the list of diseases of long duration, disabling his character is left to the discretion of the medical officers of Social Security. Which are still in their ranks, according to the associations, number of fibrosceptiques. The difficulty for the fibromyalgia is to be believed, but on that side, progress is being made.
Source : French medical press
Fibromyalgia : Case Study
Brigitte has since his youth of great fatigue and pain to the cervical vertebrae that anti-inflammatory drugs have never calmed down. "The pain came in increments, with the most violent episodes, as when you move in 1993 when I could no longer walk. Six years ago I had shingles, and there, it was the fall ... Lower back, elbows, the hands are affected. I was a piano teacher and I can not play, "she says. His exams, radios and analysis have revealed nothing abnormal.
Jacqueline those do not cause pain that began one day in the street, literally shearing the two. "The treatments are ineffective and their devastating side effects. It does what is happening, "she says. It has always been sports like running a very old lady and has memory problems. Anne "evil everywhere, all the time, lack of sleep, was exhausted and not accept to have lost its intellectual capacity. She gave up work to keep his meager forces to raise her children, "a choice hard financially and morally."
Brigitte, Jacqueline and Anne have consulted long and in vain, various specialists - rheumatologists, neurologists, psychiatrists ... They now put a name on this evil which they live a hell on a daily basis: fibromyalgia.
Four symptoms are found in almost all patients:
- Diffuse generalized pain, or sometimes localized, permanent, often exacerbated in cases of effort;
- The fatigue;
- Sleep with a non-restorative sleep;
- Morning stiffness that requires the patient to dérouiller, as if suffering from osteoarthritis.
May be associated with headaches, digestive disorders, chronic colitis, irritable bladder, restless legs, cold extremities, anxiety or depression.
Jacqueline those do not cause pain that began one day in the street, literally shearing the two. "The treatments are ineffective and their devastating side effects. It does what is happening, "she says. It has always been sports like running a very old lady and has memory problems. Anne "evil everywhere, all the time, lack of sleep, was exhausted and not accept to have lost its intellectual capacity. She gave up work to keep his meager forces to raise her children, "a choice hard financially and morally."
Brigitte, Jacqueline and Anne have consulted long and in vain, various specialists - rheumatologists, neurologists, psychiatrists ... They now put a name on this evil which they live a hell on a daily basis: fibromyalgia.
Four symptoms are found in almost all patients:
- Diffuse generalized pain, or sometimes localized, permanent, often exacerbated in cases of effort;
- The fatigue;
- Sleep with a non-restorative sleep;
- Morning stiffness that requires the patient to dérouiller, as if suffering from osteoarthritis.
May be associated with headaches, digestive disorders, chronic colitis, irritable bladder, restless legs, cold extremities, anxiety or depression.
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