Could a Rare Autoimmune Disease Help Explain the Autonomic Issues in ME/CFS, POTS and Fibromyalgia?
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...
Starving for Energy? and The Immune Hole That Produced ME/CFS?- The IACFS/ME Conference Reports Pt. II
An immune hole may have predisposed people to getting chronic fatigue syndrome and another study is underway to assess COVID-19 patients. A breakdown in the citric acid cycle is impairing energy production and producing increased lactate as well. Plus the blood of ME/CFS patients appears to contain a substance which triggers cells to use up energy and produce lactate....
Ian Lipkin on Long Hauling with the Coronavirus, a Possible B-cell Subset, and Protein Biomarkers for ME/CFS
Ian Lipkin on long hauling with the coronavirus and a proteome study that may have found B-cell subset and potential biomarkers for chronic fatigue syndrome
Are COVID-19 Studies Already Providing Clues for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and the Long Haulers?
Could COVID-19 studies already be providing clues about what went wrong with the long haulers and people with post-infectious chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia and other diseases? Two articles in the New York Times – a feature length one,...
“Long Haulers” to the Rescue? Barrage of Covid-19 Media Stories, Studies and Registries Spells Hope for ME/CFS
A barrage of "long hauler" COVID-19 media stories plus several large studies and registries tracking how people with COVID-19 fare over time provides hope for the long suffering and neglected chronic fatigue syndrome community that their disease will finally be taken seriously.Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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