Does stress play a role in how much pain you experience when you have Fibromyalgia? Here's an article about a recent study at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, which looked at the role that stress has in fibromyalgia sufferers' perception of pain:

"The Role of Stress Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently conducted a study to determine the role of stress on pain perception in patients with fibromyalgia. Patients with the condition may respond differently to stress than healthy people.

"(...) In the first part of the study, participants were asked to image a stressful or neutral event from their past. Then a heat stimulus was applied to the skin of the arm for a few minutes.

"(...) Preliminary results from the study show patients with fibromyalgia tend to rate the heat stimulus as much more unpleasant than healthy control subjects." -- The Role of Stress For Patients With Fibromyalgia, WSOCTV.com --

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Claire
Editor of Sleepydust

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can be a symptom of ME/CFS. But what causes it? Here's an article that puts forward three possible causes:

"It is possible that an overgrowth of bacteria is what causes irritable bowel syndrome. The surge of bacteria would be present in the small intestine, as one researcher publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association has proposed. The proposal suggested that ordinary bacteria normally found in the large intestine may end up in the small intestine giving rise to the characteristic symptoms of IBS; uncomfortable bloating and gas and a change in bowel movements, together with muscle and joint pain, chronic fatigue and headaches which are sometimes found in sufferers." -- David McEvoy, 'Three Possible Causes Of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)', dailyindia.com

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