"The tender point test also has a gender bias because men may report widespread pain, but they generally aren't as tender as women. Fibromyalgia may be under-diagnosed in both men and women because of the reliance on 11 tender points, and also due to failing to account for the other cen...
Schneider et al., Value of the 14C-D-Xylose Breath Test in Patients with Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, Digestion, 32:86-91 (1985). XP-000980122 M. Pimental et al., Eradication of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Decreases Symptoms in Fibromyalgia: A Double Blind Randomized Study, ...
“Centralized pain” as newly defined was originally thought to be confined to individuals with idiopathic or functional pain syndromes, such as fibromyalgia (FM), headache, IBS, temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD), and interstitial cystitis (IC) [4], [5], [6]. These pain syndromes have ...
However, it still takes longer for women to receive an AS diagnosis compared with men, which may be because some clinicians still lack awareness of what AS looks like in women. The result is that women are sometimes misdiagnosed with other conditions, such as fibromyalgia or osteoporosis. [2...
Disclosed is a method of treating small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject. SIBO-caused conditions include irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, impaired mentation, impaired memory, hal...