Could ME/CFS be next? There’s nothing like a pandemic to open new doors on post-infectious diseases, and it’s no surprise that the Henrich/Peluso team at the University of California at San Francisco would be the ones to do that. With their LIINC project,...
It’s amazing sometimes what you see if you look. A blog on the causes and possible treatments for the very troubling photophobia, or light sensitivity, that some experience turned into a deep dive into migraine and its similarities to diseases like chronic...
New data comes in – and new models of ME/CFS and long COVID pop up. That’s, of course, how it should work and that’s what happened in “Chronic inflammation, neuroglia dysfunction, and plasmalogen deficiency as a new pathobiological hypothesis...
We know the gut is in play in some way in ME/CFS. Gut symptoms are common and studies have evidence of dysregulated gut flora and leaky gut (gut bacteria in the blood). The big question, though, is what it all means. We know that gut issues have the potential to...
This blog was prompted when I learned of a family that had been riddled with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), one of whose members began experiencing psychotic symptoms, and ultimately, full psychotic episodes after being given fludrocortisone. Her severe illness...
In her last blog, Melissa reported that her symptoms were greatly improved by a spinal patch. She returns with a new blog on high intracranial pressure, and ME/CFS/FM and long COVID. This is a post on intracranial pressure and its effect on many illnesses and their...