by Carol Lefelt | Mar 1, 2018 | Homepage, Treatment
“Exercise encourages bone development, and lack of exercise means you’ll be more at risk of losing calcium from the bones and so developing osteoporosis….It also increases the risk of breaking a bone as a result of a fall.” NHS.UK... 
by Carol Lefelt | Mar 26, 2015 | Homepage, Stories
If ‘malaise’ doesn’t adequately describe my dreadful condition after too much exertion, it does fit another consequence of ME/CFS. After so many years of trying to pace myself successfully (whatever that means, since my over-taxed level seems to change from... 
by Carol Lefelt | Mar 7, 2015 | Homepage
So The Institute of Medicine has complicated and expanded the terminology wars with its recent report suggesting Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease as a more accurate name. I don’t like it much more than I don’t like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but I recognize the... 
by Carol Lefelt | Jan 11, 2015 | Homepage
I am surprised by my ambivalent response to the current media attention paid to Laura Hillenbrand. I found her book “Unbroken” riveting; I don’t read much non-fiction, but I loved the way Hillenbrand adopted fiction-like techniques to tell this story. She incorporated... 
by Carol Lefelt | Oct 3, 2014 | Homepage
How Do I Know What’s Wrong, When I Always Have CFS? The recent headaches started about two weeks before the stomach pain. My head seemed filled with cat litter. A woozy scratchy aching, either all over at once or in selected locations, on top, in back, in front. A bit...
