Heres an article on the immune system and chronic pain

[mary01]

This is kind of hard for me to understand, but maybe it might be of interest to some of you guys


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... med_docsum

[Siegrid]

Very interesting. Using my extreme know how in Biology and a dictionary (i actually used mostly the dictionary ) It pretty much says we are causing our own pain. There are little messengers in our cells called cytokines that are supposed to be telling our cells "don't hurt!" Instead we have a low amount of them in our system so since they aren't telling our cells "everything's ok" we just keep recieving signals in the brain that "something hurts, make it stop."
If this is true (which many doctors already believed it was) then the pain is really in our heads. There is nothing physically wrong with us, our cells just keep telling us there is.
I wonder if there is a way to increase cytokines and all the protiens associated with them to fix us up?
Thank you for the article!

[vegasv]

Very interesting. Using my extreme know how in Biology and a dictionary (i actually used mostly the dictionary ) It pretty much says we are causing our own pain. There are little messengers in our cells called cytokines that are supposed to be telling our cells "don't hurt!" Instead we have a low amount of them in our system so since they aren't telling our cells "everything's ok" we just keep recieving signals in the brain that "something hurts, make it stop."
If this is true (which many doctors already believed it was) then the pain is really in our heads. There is nothing physically wrong with us, our cells just keep telling us there is.
I wonder if there is a way to increase cytokines and all the protiens associated with them to fix us up?
Thank you for the article!

I wish they would try some of the drugs that they use in autoimmune patients on FMS and CFS patients. It seems like they might help. Maybe they already have. But it beats waitng for that drug Ampligen. They have been talking about it for so long. I dont think that it will ever come out. I wouldnt mind being a guinea pig.

[Siegrid]

oooo, what drug is this? IS there an experimental drug they have actually been trying?

[Luna]

oooo, what drug is this? IS there an experimental drug they have actually been trying?

Here's the URL to the company that manufactures it
http://www.hemispherx.net/ There are some study papers there, too. If you look for it on Google, you'll find some white papers on it.