The Exercise Intolerance in ME/CFS – Is it Unique?
Just about everyone with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has the sense that the disease has an astonishing ability to fall through the cracks. It's a major disease that affects around a million people in the U.S. yet gets very little funding. It has no home at the...
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What “Phantom Nasal Congestion” May Tell Us About ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
When you have a systemic disease, any part of your body can provide a clue – even your nose. Over 15 years from 1998 to 2012, James Baraniuk, a longtime ME/CFS and GWI researcher at Georgetown University, became the first and thus far the last person to try and...
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Norwegian 2-Day ME/CFS Exercise Study Adds Crucial Factor to Exercise Intolerance Findings
It's the toughest and perhaps most discerning test of all. The two-day maximal exercise test requires that one exercise to exhaustion (or nearly so) two days in a row. In truth, the test is over quickly: it starts out with mild pedaling on a bicycle which slowly gets...
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ME/CFS/Fatigue Conference Being Livestreamed From Oct 10th-13th
A four-day ME/CFS and fatigue conference "Fatigue: A Complex Diagnosis and Treatment Dilemma" is about to begin in Lexington, Kentucky - and - in what was apparently something of a last minute decision - the producers of the conference decided to live stream it. The...
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The Myhill Mitochondrial Test and ME/CFS Studies Take a Hit
The ATP Profiles test developed by Dr John McLaren-Howard (and the Mitochondrial Energy Score developed from it) has been a big deal for the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community. The test formed the basis for studies dating back to 2009 by Dr. Myhill, Dr....
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Powerful Models Accurately Predict Response to Exercise and Treatments in ME/CFS
How close are we to understanding chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) when we can accurately predict how the greatest stressor of all - exercise - affects ME/CFS patients' physiology? Nothing, after all, whacks a person with ME/CFS like exercise. That's a nice question...
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Novel Insights into Overtraining Syndrome Suggest Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Connection
Were you an avid exerciser prior to becoming diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)? Are you sure you were diagnosed correctly? Symptomatically, overtraining syndrome (OTS) and ME/CFS appear almost identical. Symptoms like fatigue, pain, post-exertional...
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The Suffering of One – Relieved: Kyle McNease’s ME/CFS Recovery Story Detailed
The first five parts of Kyle McNease's ME/CFS story (The Suffering of One is the Suffering of All) related his journey from an athletic Oxford student to a biological basket case. When we left him, Kyle was near the end of his rope: emaciated, wracked by infections,...
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Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Gap Widens
The similarities are striking: the symptoms, the shoddy research funding, the poor treatment from doctors, the gender imbalance and the stigma both still face. Both diseases still really exist on the fringes of medicine and medical research. Yet one disease is moving...
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