Talk about something coming out of left field. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) isn’t the only condition that produces odd and puzzling responses to exercise. It turns out that people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have their own mysterious problems with...
The authors got right to the point. Most people think fibromyalgia (FM) is a central nervous system condition characterized by a hypersensitive pain response and a balky pain inhibition system – and, indeed, all that is happening. Wound up, Overheated and...
Question: When does a graded exercise study explain why graded exercise is not helpful for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)? Answer: when it employs an exercise test with it. Just as NICE was pulling back on graded exercise therapy (GET) a GET study was...
One of the great questions facing chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is whether many COVID-19 long haulers will come down with an ME/CFS-like condition. Anecdotally, it appears likely that they will. A few, isolated studies are beginning to suggest the same. Recently,...
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy is a very rare disease. So why feature it in a blog on chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)? Because it could provide a preview of the future. All these diseases...
“No prescriptions, no medicines, no injections. That’s the future. That’s what gets me out of bed in the morning.” Kevin Tracey, MD. Dysautonomia International really scored when they got Kevin Tracey MD to be the keynote speaker at their 2020 Virtual Conference....
