SJOGREN'S ADVOCATE

Clinicians who believe the" nuisance sicca disease" myth are being led astray by outdated assumptions about the disease.

Everyone with Sjogren's, including seronegative patients, should be routinely monitored for systemic manifestations of the disease.

Once Sjogren's is diagnosed, the fibromyalgia label should be dropped.

Sjogren's is called autoimmune, but it is not that simple. It is a complex, systemic immune-mediated disease.

The term "secondary Sjogren's" is inaccurate and misleading. Sjogren's is Sjogren's, alone or with another disease.

Recordings from the 2020 Dysautonomia International Conference are now available for online viewing. ...

Dysautonomia impacts more than half of Sjogren's patients.

Patients are often confused about how to advocate for better care. Because so many clinicians are not up to date with Sjogren’s,...

Key Articles The Key Articles: Sjogren’s Annotated Bibliography page is a great way to share Sjogren’s information with your clinicians....

Medical terms used to describe Sjogren's are often misleading, and reinforce dismissive attitudes about the disease.

Most Saturdays mornings, I review a new batch of Sjogren’s-related journal articles from the NIH and Google Scholar. These articles,...

Do you have any of these? 1. Relentless, profound physical fatigue 2. Brain fog: Mental fatigue/cognitive changes 3. Dizziness or...

You have probably noticed that a lot of numbers inside parentheses are scattered throughout the website and blog. These are citations....

Dysautonomia, or malfunction of the autonomic nervous system, is estimated to impact more than half of Sjogren's patients.

Many patients are told that they cannot have Sjogren's because they don't meet the Classification Criteria. This is simply incorrect....

Earlier this month, I posted an online comment regarding this New York Times Article: He Thought He Just Had the Flu at First. Then His...

Drs. McCoy and Baer made some important points in their Dec. 2017 article, Neurological Complications of Sjogren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis...