Copaxone – Could a Multiple Sclerosis Drug Help with ME/CFS?
Want to listen to the blog? Thanks to Geoff for providing a narration of it. 🙂 The multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone (glatiramer acetate) is back in the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) news. Health Rising first reported that Copaxone helped some ME/CFS...
Voracious Brains, Inflamed Muscles and Immune Invaders? The NIH ME/CFS and Long COVID Conference Pt. II
THE GIST High blood oxygen levels entering the brain and low blood oxygen levels leaving the brain suggest the brains of ME/CFS patients are sucking up all the energy (oxygen) they can to keep going. Why this is happening isn’t clear. It could be due to low...
Unraveled #4: Drs. Ruhoy and Kaufman on Sleep in ME/CFS, FM, long COVID and Allied Diseases
Sleep Series This is the 2nd in a series of (at least) 4 blogs on sleep. Health Rising’s Sleep Series Pt. I – Dr. Bruck Interview – Bronc kicked the series off with an interview of Dr. Bruck – a retired sleep researcher whose son has ME/CFS. Pt. II...
Amantadine – A Fatigue Reducer for Long COVID and ME/CFS?
It seems a bit odd that we haven’t heard much about amantadine (Gocovri, Symadine, and Symmetrel) in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or long COVID. They are, after all, the two big fatiguing diseases on the planet, and amantadine is the go-to drug for fatigue...
A Bad Blood Vessel – Neuroinflammation Connection Shows Up in Long COVID
The brain and the blood vessels. So intimately intertwined but so rarely studied together. In retrospect, that’s kind of strange as blood vessels may have more to do with brain functioning than anything else. By weight, the brain is almost a non-entity –...StudyME
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