An unorthodox effective treatment provides clues to fibromyalgia's fundamental pathology.

From: Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Our treatment protocol is based on clinical observations of Fibromyalgia (FM) patients avoiding exposure to certain foods and inhalants. Robust reductions in symptoms within three weeks and the return of these symptoms upon controlled re-exposure to supposed "trigger" molecules inhaled or ingested seemed to imply that these changes were immune-mediated. Fibromyalgia remains an enigma in the medical literature, with no fundamental pathology generally acknowledged, though neural disinhibition is emerging as an important expression of the illness. Many pieces of the puzzle are ...

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