At the 2020 IACFS/ME Zoom Conference, Marvin Medow spoke on a recent study, “The Benefits of Oral Rehydration on Orthostatic Intolerance in Children with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome”. The study produced an unusual finding for this field – a...
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...
We recommend that all ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia patients have a NASA 10-minute Lean Test to assess for orthostatic intolerance. Batetman Horne Center The saga of the effort to introduce and validate the NASA Lean Test (NLT) for ME/CFS just seems so right in so many...
This is the second in a series of short blogs on possible future treatments for fibromyalgia. The smell of mint is uplifting, basil is stimulating, and lavender is known for its calming properties. What do all these plants have in common? They all come from the...
Talk about an oddball drug. Named after the earth smoke plant, dimethyl fumarate is an old compound used in industrial chemistry. Wikipedia reported that in 2012 you could get it for from $1 to $50 per metric ton (but you had to buy at least two tons of it)....
Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) produce so many symptoms that diagnosing them can be difficult for uninformed doctors. While we know that small fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN) (or small fiber neuropathy (SFN) commonly occurs in both these diseases,...
