Even short exercise periods are enough to throw the autonomic nervous systems of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome out of whack - making it difficult for people with these diseases to recover.
Something in the plasma of chronic fatigue syndrome patients appears to be interfering with the ability of the blood vessels to open - thus impairing oxygen and nutrient flows to the muscles and other tissues.
Autonomic nervous system problems of one type or another appear to be ubiquitous in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and long COVID. One place they show up in is something called low heart rate...
“It’s the first real solid attempt to come up with some biologic mechanisms for long Covid,” said Dr. Steven Deeks. A large and complex long-COVID study was recently published. It’s one of the first major studies to follow large numbers of long-COVID patients...
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