Michael Musker, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute and Tiffany Gill, University of AdelaideAt least one in ten of us suffer some sort of troublesome, long-term (chronic) pain. But not all have fibromyalgia. People with fibromyalgia have chronic widespread pain — including musculoskeletal aches, pain and stiffness, and soft tissue tenderness — in many areas … [Read more...] about Explainer: what is fibromyalgia, the condition Lady Gaga lives with?
How to make a: ‘Submission to MBA Consultation document on complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments’
The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) have tried to rush through this proposal (we have to June 30 to lodge submissions.) If you know one thing, know this, if you have a chronic illness and you've been helped by a Doctor of Environmental Medicine, you need to put in a submission (one paragraph is all you need) so that you and other people with illnesses such as MCS, CFS/ME, … [Read more...] about How to make a: ‘Submission to MBA Consultation document on complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments’
Integrative Medicine: My Experience; My Submission (partly)
After 16 years of suffering with inhalant allergies to chemical irritants, and getting sicker each winter, crashing completely (twice) in unsuitable rental housing with damp concrete, and another time, a leaking roof, that, when finally I did pay a visit to a Doctor of Integrative Medicine, that that doctor knew within an hour of speaking to me that I had CIRS, Going to … [Read more...] about Integrative Medicine: My Experience; My Submission (partly)
Podcast ‘Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners’
This Friday, from FX Medicine, we have a podcast with Dr Mark Donohoe and Andrew Whitfield-Cook, titled, 'Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners' Those patients for which medicine has no answers or solutions are very often the ones ending up in front of an integrative medicine practitioner. The time spent with patients is often longer, the … [Read more...] about Podcast ‘Chronic Illness and Suicide: Looking after Patients and Practitioners’
Repost: How to Get Fragrance Free Glasses!
Earlier, this year, I wrote about 'Doubling up on Chemical Exposures for the Sake of Convenience'. Odd title, I know but—as I found out from that post—that's just what so many of us do when there's an appointment to go to: we double up, even triple up. (Wrongly, so wrongly, some of us can't go out at all, even.) On that day, I didn't want to drag myself anywhere, let alone … [Read more...] about Repost: How to Get Fragrance Free Glasses!