This blog follows the discussion between two ME/CFS experts, Dr. Ilene Ruhoy and Dr. David Kaufman, on their March 8th, 2023 edition of their Patreon channel: Unraveled. Two chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) experts; Dr. Kaufman – an internist – and Dr. Ruhoy –...
It seems a bit odd that we haven’t heard much about amantadine (Gocovri, Symadine, and Symmetrel) in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or long COVID. They are, after all, the two big fatiguing diseases on the planet, and amantadine is the go-to drug for fatigue...
Will we ever get away from the vaccine question? Probably not but at least we’re getting studies on their effects not just on COVID-19 but on getting long COVID and even healing from it. While they’re not on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) they’re...
Thanks to everyone who supported Health Rising during its fundraising drive! We will report the results in about a week 🙂 What a heartening story Wes Ely MD, MPH is. He’s precisely the kind of researcher we want studying long COVID (and ultimately, ME/CFS. Given...
Our last blog covered a study showing that intense exercise messes with the mitochondria, inhibits energy production, and can even produce muscle damage in some people with long COVID. Is all exercise necessarily bad, though? ME/CFS experts, and now David Putrino in...