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Your Membership will begin with the July 2010 issue of the Fibromyalgia Network Journal. Below is a detailed description of its contents.

• Social Network Site Shares Friendly Support
  
  • The Fibromyalgia Network's newly created Facebook page offers suggestions and support from fibro patients around the world
    
  • Patients provide each other helpful advice on brain fog, filing for disability, managing hot and cold feet, and tips for living
    
• Is your Primary Illness Fibro or a Sleep Disorder?
  
  • Neurologist A. Robert Spitzer, M.D., and sleep specialist F. Scott Perrino, M.D., discuss a sleep disorder that could be the root of your symptoms
    
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome, narcolepsy, and fibromyalgia: the incredible similarities
    
  • What is Narcoleptiform Syndrome?
    
  • Improving sleep, fatigue and cataplexy; treatment alternatives to Xyrem
    
• Are You Clumsy or Truly Off Balance?
  
  • Researchers look at balance issues as a symptom of fibromyalgia: Kim D. Jones, F.N.P., Ph.D., Dana N. Rutledge, R.N., Ph.D., and Debra J. Rose, Ph.D.
    
  • Test factors that predict falls
    
  • Prevention strategies and balance therapies
    
• Losing Your Prescriber?
  
  • Pain specialists Howard A. Heit, M.D., and Douglas L. Gourlay, M.D., discuss creating a plan that can assist patients when seeking a new doctor or changing medications
    
• Skin Study Goes Beyond the Surface
  
  • Breaking research by Ignacio Blanco, M.D., looks at mast cells as the possible source of irritations in your skin, airway, bladder, and intestines
    
  • Alice Larson, Ph.D., discusses the role of the brain's thalamus and mast cells
    
• Why it Hurts More for Fibromyalgia Patients
  
  • Hong-You Ge, M.D., Ph.D., discusses his research on the ability of myofascial trigger points (MTPs) to lower pain threshold and how this relates to fibromyalgia
    
  • Botox as a treatment option for your trigger points
    
• Nutritional Supplements: Boosting Energy & Brain Power
  
  • 2,700 Members rate their top fibromyalgia-researched nutritional supplements for energy and brain power
    
  • How cost-effective are vitamin E, vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, creatine, and coenzyme-Q₁₀?
    
• New Directions for Diagnosing Fibromyalgia
  
  • More than 4,500 Members responded to the Fibromyalgia Network's survey on the newly revised criteria to diagnose fibromyalgia
    
  • Four prominent and highly-skilled practitioners, including Robert Bennett, M.D., and Roland Staud, M.D., offer their critique on the preliminary diagnostic criteria
    
  • How will the new criteria impact the future credibility of fibromyalgia?
    
• Therapies that Work
  
  • Learning to Balance Life
    
  • Neurontin Makes a Difference
    
• Patient Resources
  
  • Free article reprints on understanding fibromyalgia; latest news links to nutrition; connect to facebook; getting help with prescription costs, balance DVD, abstracts online, A Patient's Guide brochure, contact information, discounts

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