Bungee Jumping Off the Friendship Cliff

Tonight, while looking for something on Facebook, the search ironically brought up my ex best friend.  To know what an unprovoked emotional attack this was by FB you need to know she & I were never FB friends & share no friends in common.  So like I said, very uncool Facebook! Suddenly there she was: standing on the [...] Continue reading →

Groundbreaking Study in Fibromyalgia

A small study could be groundbreaking for Fibromyalgia patients. A study conducted by the neurology department at the University of Wurzburg, Germany has discovered small nerve fiber neuropathy in Fibromyalgia patients. The researchers conducted a small study, comparing Fibromyalgia patients to people with depression & healthy controls.   What is small fiber peripheral neuropathy? SF [...] Continue reading →

Playing Hide & Seek with the Flu

I am currently playing hide & seek with the Flu. I am hiding, hoping the Flu isn’t seeking! Getting the flu feels like a game of Russian roulette (& I don’t tend to be lucky). When it feels like your body is already using every ounce of “fight” it has to battle your illness, adding anything else (especially [...] Continue reading →

Hair Loss – Treatments & Solutions

Let’s face it, being sick doesn’t exactly make us ready to win a beauty contest any time soon. Until they have a Miss AutoImmune pageant, I don’t think the pale skin, weight loss & muscle wasting will be considered a plus. Adding in hair loss might help us make the top 3 but at the [...] Continue reading →

Hair Loss – Treatments & Solutions

Let’s face it, being sick doesn’t exactly make us ready to win a beauty contest any time soon. Until they have a Miss AutoImmune pageant, I don’t think the pale skin, weight loss & muscle wasting will be considered a plus. Adding in hair loss might help us make the top 3 but at the [...] Continue reading →

Surviving Another Birthday

The minute you get sick, birthdays are never the same. After a year of being in full remission, I started to feel sick again off and on. I knew with certainty something was seriously wrong with me the night of my 13th birthday. It was the best party I ever had. I spent days decorating [...] Continue reading →

Monday Autoimmune Roundup

Evidence yet again that the immune system is far more complex than we will likely understand in our lifetimes, destroying B-cells isn’t the only treatment that helps autoimmune disease.  Re-introducing special B-cells turned off MS-like autoimmune disease in rats. China’s increasing role in autoimmune disease research: Here’s a new institute looking into antibody drugs, create a [...] Continue reading →
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