The last blog noted that many different roads may lead to Rome; i.e. to the fatigued, exertion-challenged states we see in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), long COVID, and others. Here’s another road. It’s no surprise that David...
The overviews of the 2021 IACFS/ME Conference continue with a focus on exercise studies. “A Huge Problem and Major Crisis”: Avindra Nath on Long COVID at the IACFS/ME 2021 Conference “Emerging Options for Autoimmune ME/CFS”: Scheibenbogen at...
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...
David Systrom, the Harvard pulmonologist, is digging ever deeper into his ME/CFS patients. In “Insights From Invasive Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing of Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” Systrom and company assessed the...
I came down with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) very gradually after contacting something called labyrinthitis – a balance disorder caused by an inner ear infection. I caught the virus around Easter 2010. I recovered, but relapsed, recovered again, but then...
The exercise physiologists at the Workwell Foundation are pretty darn good at providing thought provoking case reports. A couple of years ago, a Workwell case report indicated that a very ill ME/CFS patient was able, using Workwell’s heart rate-based exercise...