{"id":19873,"date":"2019-03-07T07:47:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=19873"},"modified":"2019-03-07T07:47:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:47:30","slug":"me-cfs-fibromyalgia-definitions-similarities-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-cfs-fibromyalgia-definitions-similarities-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"ME\/CFS &#038; Fibromyalgia: definitions, similarities, &#038; differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinicaltherapeutics.com\/article\/S0149-2918(19)30003-7\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ME\/CFS and Fibromyalgia: definitions, similarities, and differences<\/a>, by Benjamin H Natelson <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span> <em>Clinical Therapeutics<\/em> 2019<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Article abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/2019\/01\/initiating-care-of-a-patient-with-me-cfs\/doctor-graphic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19430\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19430 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/doctor-graphic-300x228.jpg?resize=300%2C228\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/doctor-graphic.jpg?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/doctor-graphic.jpg?resize=150%2C114&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/doctor-graphic.jpg?resize=768%2C583&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/doctor-graphic.jpg?resize=1024%2C778&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/doctor-graphic.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/228;\" \/><\/a>This commentary presents a simplified way of making the diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis\/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) using the 1994 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition.<\/p>\n<p>The format used can easily be modified for other case definitions. The commentary then discusses whether ME\/CFS is the same or a different illness from fibromyalgia. Because overlap exists between the 2 syndromes, some investigators have posited that they are variants of the same illness. I have viewed this as an empirically testable hypothesis and have summoned considerable amounts of data that suggest that the 2 illnesses differ.<\/p>\n<p>Were differences to exist, that would suggest different pathophysiologic processes for each, leading to different treatments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sci-hub.tw\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.clinthera.2018.12.016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ME\/CFS and Fibromyalgia: definitions, similarities, and differences, by Benjamin H Natelson in Clinical Therapeutics 2019 Article abstract: This commentary presents a simplified way of making the diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis\/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME\/CFS) using the 1994 Centers for Disease &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-cfs-fibromyalgia-definitions-similarities-differences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,2847,251,252],"class_list":["post-19873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-diagnosis","tag-dr-benjamin-natelson","tag-fibromyalgia","tag-fm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-5ax","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19941,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions\/19941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}