by Cort Johnson | May 4, 2022 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Herpes Simplex Virus, Homepage
Active herpes simplex virus found in the guts of fibromyalgia patients could be contributing to or causing the disease. An antiviral trial is under way.
by Cort Johnson | Mar 1, 2022 | Homepage, long COVID, Pathogens
It seems like an incredible thing to ask but one must now ask if the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is going to miss, yes miss, its best opportunity to study long COVID. There’s a lot riding on the NIH getting this right. For one the amount of money, the...
by Cort Johnson | Feb 27, 2022 | Autoimmune, Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Cardiovascular, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Endothelial Cells, Energy Production, Enterovirus, Epstein-Barr Virus, Exercise, Gulf War Illness, Homepage, Human Herpes Virus Six (HHV-6), long COVID, ME/CFS, Neuroinflammation, Small Fiber Neuropathy
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.
by Cort Johnson | Feb 23, 2022 | COVID-19, Homepage, Immune, Interferons
A model proposes that people with low IgG3 levels, high symptom levels and asthma are more likely to come down with long COVID.
by Cort Johnson | Dec 23, 2021 | Autoimmune, B-cells, COVID-19, Homepage, Immune, long COVID, POTS
Friendly Fire? Recent studies featuring potentially game-changing blood vessel problems in ME/CFS/FM and long COVID have been illuminating but have lacked a crucial component: how it all started. A July study led by Edward Yang and fellow Yale researchers published in...
by Cort Johnson | Nov 3, 2021 | COVID-19, Homepage
Health Rising's largest coronavirus infection and vaccine effects poll asks how people with fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue syndrome and related diseases have done over time.