She was twenty years old – a competitive skier – complaining of muscle and joint pains, fatigue, gut problems, difficulty sleeping, cognitive problems, difficulty concentrating and tingling sensations. When she tried to exercise the pain in her shoulders...
In 2011 the CFIDS Association (now the Solve ME/CFS Initiative) engaged a “drug repositioning” company called Biovista to search through thousands of drugs to find a new approach to ME/CFS. Biovista’s algorithm identified “every known gene,...
Health Rising’s Sleep Center for ME/CFS and FM is the first of a series of resource centers Health Rising will create. These Centers are designed to be a kind of one stop shops where people with ME/CFS and FM can go to learn about and find help with sleep, pain,...
With an enormous potential therapeutic gain and a high safety profile, further development and application of VNS is encouraging. Yuan et. Al Vagus nerve stimulation is one of the most promising chronic pain interventions under development today. An earlier blog on...
Thanks to Carol for allowing Health Rising to post her startling recovery story. Please note that we’re at the very early stages of understanding how probiotics may help people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) or fibromyalgia. The trillions of bacteria...
Health Rising’s 2014 Sleep Survey asked people with ME/CFS/FM to rate how effective many drugs, supplements, and sleep practices were. Hundreds of comments on the drugs surveyed – as well as other drugs – flowed in. They’ve now been...
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