The bottom line is always treatments. Long COVID has brought a ton of interest to post-infectious illnesses. Researchers are asking whether they are actually autoimmune diseases, how big of a role coagulation or gut microbiome problems play, if viral reactivation is...
This is a response to Alice’s thoughtful blog, “No, long COVID is not helping ME/CFS – and we should stop pretending that it is…” No, Long Covid is Not Helping People with ME… Alice’s blog was carefully written. She wrote,...
Numerous add-on effects from long COVID have been anticipated – insights into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), new treatment possibilities, increased funding – but I don’t know if anyone really thought this one would pan out. Ampligen...
Both fibromyalgia (FM) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) clearly need better treatments. The FDA-approved drugs for these diseases are too often ineffective, come with too many side effects (fibromyalgia) or just aren’t available at all (ME/CFS). Too many...
Dr. Peterson’s been using Ampligen in ME/CFS for 27 years. It seems like the drug has been sitting in limbo regarding ME/CFS forever – yet Ampligen is just one phase 3 trial away from becoming the first FDA-approved drug for ME/CFS – and no other...
I think that my patients are some of the bravest, most stalwart individuals ever, and I admire them sincerely. Charles Lapp Dr. Lapp’s path to medicine and then into chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) was an unusual one. Lapp graduated from...
