Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Brain – Digestion and Digestive-Related Information on MedicineNet.com

Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the Brain - Digestion and Digestive-Related Information on MedicineNet.com. IBS is another one of those syndromes I've been plagued with for most of my life...even as a child and adolescent. Research and doctors tell me that IBS cluster with a lot of the other syndromes and disorders I have...like fibromyalgia. If…

Angels Watching Over Me at Around the Block with the BamaSteelMagnolia

I have a new quilt blog this evening. I was getting some things ready for a move this morning and it dawned on me I hadn’t ever photographed this one particular quilt. I’m particularly adamant about documenting and photographing quilts and decided “no time is like the present” so I took some quick pictures this…

New criteria proposed for diagnosing fibromyalgia

New criteria proposed for diagnosing fibromyalgia. Years...and I mean years ago I was first diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I think the year was 1990 when the "official" diagnosis was made, but I had been suffering with the symptoms since the early 1980s. My beloved family physician who has since passed away was very well…

Does This Sound and Feel Familiar…? by Beverly Hicks Burch

Does this sound and feel familiar…? For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Jimmy Carter "Energy and the National Goals -- A Crisis of Confidence," 1979 Why is it an ineffectual Democratic President…