My partner and I both have ME/CFS/FM and we both have special housing needs. She has mold issues and some chemical sensitivities and I have chemical sensitivities. Both these issues can pose considerable problems when renting or buying. Three years ago, my partner...
I was a bit anxious as I waited for Dr. Pridgen to pick up. It had been a year and a half since we talked and I had heard nothing. Given Pridgen’s approach – using antivirals in a disease (fibromyalgia) that few connected with pathogens – his...
Last March, I trudged out to the van to install a solar panel. I’d been fighting a cold but this was something thing I dearly wanted to get done. In general, I felt a little activity had been helpful with colds. This time, it was different. The work took longer...
The Washington Post is running an excellent story, “Patients push limits for clues to chronic fatigue syndrome”, on ME/CFS and the NIH’s ME/CFS intramural study. The featured story – of Zach Ault, a father, who while training for a...
In 2015, Dean Echenberg, MD, PhD, a former public health official and Director of Disease Control in San Francisco at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, had a question. His own course of ME/CFS had been anything but smooth. Echenberg had experienced years of illness...
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