1-4 years of relapse followed by 1-4 years of partial remission. Until it become chronic without significant remissions after about 25 years.
Another huge thank you @dave30th. This is real hope for Kaiser Permaenente members with ME/CFS. There will be a huge physician cultural shift to...
If disabled people widely stop participating in social media, this is also a way to shut down our freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. We...
Similar article we were discussing a couple weeks ago on the WiFi thread. On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post...
Just as an aside, a few years back Kaiser Permanente had a class action lawsuit for refusing to provide behavioral therapy for autistic children....
Assessment tool predicts chronic fatigue syndrome six months after mono...
"biological or psychiatric" is no longer a debate according to US health agencies. It's biological. I think the distinction is important, largely...
One of the ironies not lost on me is that there is suddenly so much biomedical ME/CFS research, it's difficult for me as a patient to find the...
In a sense, yes. That is the Nov 2018 updated Healthwise ME/CFS web page. It is Healthwise's position on ME/CFS, but not Kaiser Permanente's...
Dr. Olson is very aware I became ill following a viral infection more than 40 years ago. My focus is on trying to improve ME/CFS diagnosis, care...
That is correct.
ME/CFS patients with Kaiser Permanente deserve much better than they have been offered in the past. They need real hope that their care will...
Bump. Starts 30 minutes from this post.
Psychiatrists fail to recognize that their own inappropriate treatments can create suicide risk in chronically ill patients. In the 1990s, after...
Reminiscent of Ruqsana Begum, who lost her job due to ME, but is now a kickboxing champion who manages her condition "with a strict diet and...
In the United States, ME and CFS and ME/CFS (and SEID) are generally considered the same. ME and ME/CFS are becoming more common, while CFS and...
Every doctor needs to understand this. The days of abandoning ME/CFS patients without care, telling them exercise more, or relegating them to...
I don't like laundry lists of ME/CFS "typical symptoms". Not everyone with ME/CFS has even half of the 20 symptoms listed. I have 7... maybe 8.
Depressing article. I'm reminded of this quote about science and the environment.
He could be just quoting the CDC and misquoting the NAM report.
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