Going back to the enterovirus VP1 protein test, a 1991 paper "Persistent virus infection of muscle in postviral fatigue syndrome" by Cunningham et...
I guess the Internet did not really take off as a source of mass information and reference until around 2000 say; I developed full ME/CFS in 2006...
I know that the biomedical researchers were well aware of Wessely's bad influence on ME/CFS: apparently in the late 1980s, Simon Wessely wanted to...
It would be interesting to know more about that era, when the tide turned against good biomedical research, and all those implausible psych...
The issue in those days, in the 1970s and 80s, was that the UK ME/CFS researchers were unsure what the high antibody titers to coxsackievirus B...
The fact that ME/CFS from mononucleosis is more likely to go into remission suggests to my mind that EBV ME/CFS should be considered a different...
Yes it is most ironic that here in the UK, the country which first made the link between enterovirus and ME/CFS, there is no means to test for...
I had not heard that before, but it sounds about right. Unfortunately it is becoming harder to diagnose enterovirus-associated ME/CFS outside...
It's possibly something along those lines, though we don't have any longitudinal studies on ME/CFS recovery that span decades. This study which...
You might be interested in an OTC treatment for the pseudobulbar affect (emotional lability): dextromethorphan (DXM), which you can get over the...
In a medical dictionary, the term "malaise" comes across as something relatively mild and vague: But I don't how the term is used by doctors on...
I have pointed out previously that though most people refer to the post-extertional symptoms of ME/CFS as "post-exertional malaise" or "PEM", in...
Think about how POTS is diagnosed.
A severe ME/CFS patient on the PR forum was able to fully cure their POTS with a vigorous cardiovascular exercise regimen; POTS and NMH respond...
I am also at the top end of moderate these days, but seem to be more cognitively affected than physically affected; this may be due to the fact...
It would seem likely that Ruqsana Begun has mild ME/CFS on the scale of mild, moderate and severe. People with mild ME/CFS are able to go to work...
Huge amounts of IL-6 appear after exercise (100-fold increase in levels). However, IL-6 is a complex cytokine that has both pro-inflammatory and...
A few years ago when my ME/CFS was approaching the severe level, I'd often have so much shattering fatigue that I'd be in the bed not only during...
Chronic fatigue isn't a typical symptom in ME/CFS?! Chronic fatigue or relapsing fatigue is a required symptom for the diagnosis of ME/CFS: The...
Random mutation and genetic recombination (the random combination of genes received from parents) provides the basis of both natural selection and...
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