Adam’s BCG Vaccination Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Recovery Story
As Health Rising continues its series of recovery/recovering stories their sheer diversity continues to surprise. We've had simple cures (Lucie's hydration cure), spontaneous, unexpected cures (Rachel's JEV vaccine cure), complex, multifaceted "cures" (James CIRS,...
Why You Should Participate in Advocacy Week!
The antidote to despair is action...Joan Baez If you've been around for a while you're probably well acquainted with the Solve ME/CFS Initiative's "Advocacy Week". You may even be jaded about it - yet another Advocacy Week - and ask yourself: do they ever make a...
Are Oxygen Depleted Muscles Causing Problems in Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia (FM) is so weird. Exercise studies are just going gangbusters. If researchers devoted as much time and money to attempting to understand what's going on in FM as they do on exercise studies we might have some real answers. The outcome has been that...
Two Years Later: Bruce Patterson, Long COVID, ME/CFS/FM and the Poll
Working out of a small laboratory called IncellDX, which Pitchbook states has just 23 employees, Bruce Patterson MD has managed to have an outsize effect on the long-COVID field. More patients (many more) are reportedly using his protocol via an array of...
Can the Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Reduce Symptoms of Long COVID?
As a researcher in international development, travel vaccines for low-income countries are a typical part of my life. But I never expected that once I developed Long COVID, a travel vaccine for Japanese encephalitis might help me make a rapid recovery. Could similar...
Could Long COVID be a Subtype of Fibromyalgia?
I think people are pretty familiar with the idea that long COVID could be a subtype of chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) but fibromyalgia? Not so much. In fact, we've hardly heard anything about a possible connection between FM and long COVID. The third most common...
Having Severe ME/CFS: A Report From Norway
(In 2021, Amber outlined the ways we are failing those with very severe ME/CFS in a blog on Health Rising. In this blog, Trude Schei reports on the results of a rare survey that documented the situation they face in Norway.) Background In 2018, the Norwegian ME...
Metformin, Energy Metabolism, Long COVID and ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
A couple of months ago, Health Rising reported on a metformin long-COVID study. In this blog, we take a deeper look at metformin and the study itself in light of recent results. This 1,000-person-plus trial, "Outpatient treatment of Covid-19 and the development of...
Accelerating Treatments in Long COVID: What Will it Take? The Solve M.E. / BIO Webinar Series
It was a most interesting webinar - the first in a series of programs from Solve M.E. and Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) - on how to best advance the long-COVID treatments. Solve M.E.'s long reach and its ability to bring in a diverse array of experts in...
