As anyone who has fibromyalgia knows, the widespread deep pain and fatigue can be very debilitating. There are indications that the source of pain and fatigue is due to hypersensitivity of nerve cells within the central nervous system (called central sensitization), but why this may be occurring is unknown. Otherwise, no specific pathology has been identified that could be the source of the problem, which in itself can fuel self doubts.
A research team headed by neurologists Charles Argoff, MD and James Wymer, MD, PhD and James Storey, MD (who performed the clinical assessments) and neuroscientists Phillip Albrecht, PhD, Auanzhi Hous, MD, PhD and Frank Rice, PhD (who analyzed the nerve endings in the skin in patients with fibromyalgia). The unique expertise of this team along with microscopic technology to examine small skin biopsies collected from the palms of fibromyalgia patients were used to analyze nerve endings. The FM patients in this study were limited to women and were diagnosed and treated by Drs. Argoff, Wymer and Storey. The skin biopsies were about one-half the size of a pencil eraser. Read Full Story here
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