From Fight/Flight to Neuroinflammation: Explaining the “Functional Pain” in Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS?
Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and other functional pain disorders may triggered by an overactive fight/flight system which results in neuroinflammation.
Bacteriophage Lyme Test Offers ME/CFS Patient New Possibility
Dominic reports on the new Phelix bacteriophage Lyme test his wife with ME/CFS tested positive on. Possible new “break-through” blood test for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases Summary: A new type of blood test for tick-borne bacterial infections became available in...
Major Media Article Highlights Link Between COVID-19 and ME/CFS
Could COVID-19 – with as much devastation, pain and suffering that it’s caused – have a silver lining for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)? A brilliantly written Washington Post article, “Researchers warn covid-19 could cause debilitating...
A Novel Neuroinflammatory Paradigm for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Mackay and Tate propose that neuroinflammation in the hypothalamus disregulates the paraventricular nucleus causing the stress response in chronic fatigue syndrome to go bananas, producing all sorts of symptoms. They look forward to the day when brain scans will produce a diagnosable brain signature for both ME/CFS and FM.Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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