What a timely meeting. Mass ME/CFS and FM was celebrating its 40th anniversary, and so probably was Tony Komaroff MD and his long history of treating, researching, and advocating for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) – we are facing the most exciting and...
This is the second in a series of blogs on the IACFS/ME 2022 International Conference on ME/CFS (and long COVID). The last one focused on David Systrom’s Keynote address. This one focused on an hour-long talk that kicked off the keynote session. Systrom’s...
Insomnia may be common but much is still unknown about it. We know, for instance, that different types of insomnia exist, but the authors of a recent paper “Effects of trazodone versus cognitive behavioral therapy in insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype:...
Although fatigue has traditionally been scorned in medical research. studies show that ME/CFS – the “chronic fatigue syndrome” – is significantly more functionally disabling than multiple sclerosis, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and...
“Therefore, in this study, we hypothesize that understanding cortisol patterns in both these syndromes may be a crucial factor in characterizing FMS and CFS.” The authors More than any other substance, cortisol demonstrates how integral a role the stress...
Summary Prolonged or chronic critical illness – a term applied to patients that survive severe injury or infection, but fail to start recovering after a few days – is characterized by low levels of peripheral hormones (including T3, IGF-1, cortisol and testosterone)....
