The kind of loopy name – alpha-gal syndrome – belies its significance. The alpha-gal syndrome is no joke and may even be mimicking diseases like post-treatment Lyme Disease, irritable bowel syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), orthostatic...
It’s very good to see this case report. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) experts are now bringing decades of experience to bear on treating long-COVID patients. Many are using treatments that long-COVID patients may not even know exist. Case reports like the...
Friendly Fire? Recent studies featuring potentially game-changing blood vessel problems in ME/CFS/FM and long COVID have been illuminating but have lacked a crucial component: how it all started. A July study led by Edward Yang and fellow Yale researchers published in...
A recent long-COVID paper, “Post-Covid-19 Tachycardia Syndrome: A distinct phenotype of Post-acute Covid-19 Syndrome”, was given some prominence by Medscape. The authors focused on the presence of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) in long...
A riff on Dr. Peter Rowe’s presentation at the 2020 Dysautonomia International Conference (note that I expand on many of Rowe’s points; i.e. not all the words are his.) Lauren Stiles, the founder of Dysautonomia International, has long believed that the...
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...