Social Exhaustion: An ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Dilemma
(Thanks to Sue for allowing Health Rising to repost her poignant blog on a frustrating and common problem for people with ME/CFS/FM and their families: when social interactions – even with loved ones – turn exhausting.) I love my extended family –...
Renewal and Relapse: An Anti-inflammatory Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Story
A patient with severe ME/CFS improves markedly on a prescription anti-inflammatory. The question is why...
Depressing Consequences: The Infection Mood Disorder Connection Revealed
We know that many cases of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) start with an infection and that those infections result in what is called “sickness behavior”. The fatigue, pain, difficulty concentrating, problems with sleep and apathy found...
The Brain Game: The Search for Neuroinflammation in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
The race to image neuroinflammatory states in the brain should benefit people with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia
Reborn II: Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Inflammation
A recent blog featured the story of a woman who recovered from severe fibromyalgia using vagal nerve stimulation. This blog features, if anything, a even more remarkable story of recovery from a different angle; this time the patient suffered from severe, crippling...StudyME
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