Sleep Series This is the 2nd in a series of (at least) 4 blogs on sleep. Pt. I – Bronc kicked the series off with an interview of Dr. Bruck – a retired sleep researcher whose son has ME/CFS. Pt. II – is an overview of a fascinating talk by two...
(Thanks to Bronc for another guest post – this time focusing on the unrefreshing sleep that permeates this disease. In it, Bronc talks with a sleep researcher, Dr. Dorothy Bruck, whose son has ME.) Just before Xmas 2010, I was overcome by a bout of Swine Flu....
The second part of a 3-part series of blogs on the “Deep phenotyping of post-infectious myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” study looks at who was in the study and how they were selected, how severely the study was truncated by the pandemic (quite...
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...
This is part three in a multi-part sleep series on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) dedicated to Darden Burns. To Sleep at Last: A Good-bye to Darden Burns Health Rising’s ME/CFS and FM Sleep Series Sleep Pt. I: Why We Sleep (and What Happens When We...
Please note that Walker does not discuss chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia in his book, and this blog does not specifically pertain to either disease: it is not meant to be a prescription for sleep for either disease. (That will come later in the sleep series.)...