Hello all I hope you pass these newsletters on to gulf war veterans.... .I am pulling articles from pubmed and making some comments that I hope will help the gulf war veterans. If you have questions please share or your own comments. Fibromyalgia is one of the conditions that is listed in the law for gulf war veteran compensation. This article addresses the connection to infections. How many of you have been tested for Lyme disease, hepatitis C? You will note the article addresses vaccines as a cotriggering factor. It is interesting to also note where the research occurred this one was Israel....wonder who funded it? <INPUT type=checkbox value=17071055 name=uid>1: J Autoimmun. 2006 Nov;27(3):145- 52. Epub 2006 Oct 30. Links Fibromyalgia, infection and vaccination: Two more parts in the etiological puzzle. Department of Rheumatology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, 6 Weizman St., 64239 Tel-Aviv, Israel. As the pathogenesis of fibromyalgia continues to raise debate, multiple putative triggers have been implicated. The current review summarizes the available data linking fibromyalgia to either infection or vaccination. Multiple infectious agents have been associated with the development of either full-blown fibromyalgia (e.g. hepatits C), or with symptom complexes extensively overlapping with that syndrome (e.g. chronic Lyme disease). The cases of Lyme disease, mycoplasma, hepatits C and HIV are detailed. Despite the described associations, no evidence is available demonstrating the utility of antibiotic or anti-viral treatment in the management of fibromyalgia. Possible mechanistic links between fibromyalgia and HIV are reviewed. Associations have been described between various vaccinations and symptom complexes including fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The case of Gulf War syndrome, a functional multisystem entity sharing many clinical characteristics with fibromyalgia is discussed, with emphasis on the possibility of association with administration of multiple vaccinations during deployment in the Persian Gulf and the interaction with stress and trauma. Based on this example a model is proposed, wherein vaccinations function as co-triggers for the development of functional disorders including fibromyalgia, in conjunction with additional contributing factors. PMID: 17071055 [PubMed - in process]
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