Studies thus far indicate the long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) may be exhausting the body in similar ways via viral persistence, autoimmunity, circulatory and blood issues and small fiber neuropathy.
The NIH recently found a way to kick the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community in the teeth again. Jack Reacher couldn’t have done it any better. You have to give it to the NIH: they’re nothing if not masters of disappointment. Almost five years ago...
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.
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