I’ve had CFS/ME for 21 years. Nearly 6 years ago I began to recover from a three-year stint of being completely bedridden – the last few months of which I was near death. The first time my doctor saw me he was amazed I was still alive. I was bedridden, emaciated...
The Solve ME/CFS Initiative’s webinar with Dr. Avindra Nath revealed again what an extraordinary study the NIH intramural study at its Clinical Center is. The Webinar started off with Dr. Nath stating that it was “such a pleasure” to talk to the...
We changed the URL Health Rising is found on early this morning from cortjohnson.org to healthrising.org. I went with cortjohnson.org after I left Phoenix Rising because of its name recognition value, but that’s no longer needed so I took my name off the...
The Fibromyalgia Summit Finally a fibromyalgia summit! It’s a big one – the biggest I’ve seen yet. It includes thirty speakers covering everything from gut issues to nutrition to detoxification to sex (there is sex after fibromyalgia – perhaps...
Migraine effects 12% of the population (!) or about 40 million people. Two studies suggest as many as 75% of people with chronic fatigue syndrome experience migraines and that most migraines in ME/CFS are undiagnosed. A recent large fibromyalgia study suggested...
We know that hepatitis C patients receiving a strong pro-inflammatory drug (IFN-a) that helps them fight off their viral infections and ME/CFS patients have very similar problems with fatigue and identical problems with their basal ganglia. That suggests that...
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