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Twenty-Five Days Of Blood Draws
Twenty-Five Days Of Blood Draws
My 25 days in a row of blood draws for a research study ended on Thursday.
Twenty-five days of cohesive compression bandages from the lab.
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Twenty-Five Days of Blood Draws: Day 7
Twenty-Five Days of Blood Draws: Day 7
A peek into the lab. It's empty, with just a skeleton crew on the weekend.
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CFS/FM Biomarker Research Study
CFS/FM Biomarker Research StudyYesterday I began participating in a chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia research study at Stanford University. The study will be looking at biomarkers for the illnesses, specifically inflammatory cytokines in the blood, and possible treatments ( Read more... ) -
rtfMRI: One-Week Follow-Up
rtfMRI: One-Week Follow-Up
Yesterday I had my one-week follow-up at Omneuron after my final rtfMRI scan. After filling out an interminable amount of paperwork, I met with a team member to discuss all aspects of the study. Not only were they helping me by finding mental strategies I can use to mitigate my chronic pain, but I was helping them as ( Read more... ) -
rtfMRI Scan #6
rtfMRI Scan #6
Yesterday I had my sixth and final rtfMRI scan in the chronic pain treatment study, and this time I alternated between using the successful strategies for increasing and decreasing my pain found during the previous scans (the affective strategy, using the feelings of anger, discouragement and frustration for increasing the pain, and ( Read more... ) -
rtfMRI Scan No. 5
rtfMRI Scan No. 5
Today I had my fifth rtfMRI scan in the chronic pain treatment study, and this time I alternated between using the successful strategies for increasing and decreasing my pain found during the previous scans (the affective strategy, using the feelings of anger, discouragement and frustration for increasing, and the discriminatory ( Read more... ) -
rftMRI Scan #4
rftMRI Scan #4
Yesterday I had my 4th rtfMRI scan in the chronic pain treatment study, and this time I alternated between using the successful strategies for increasing and decreasing my pain found during the previous scans (the affective strategy, using the feelings of anger, discouragement and frustration for increasing, and the sensory strategy ( Read more... ) -
rtfMRI Strategy Session No. 2
rtfMRI Strategy Session No. 2
Today I didn't have a scan, but spent the time coming up with different strategies to experiment with for my remaining 3 scans, to find the most effective one to reduce my brain's pain center activity ( Read more... )
