The building is dark – the doors are locked – everything has been shut down. It’s early 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic has struck. A figure walks down the street, pauses – briefly peers into the entrance – and moves on. He turns left...
This blog asks if it’s possible to reduce the PEM period by doing things other than resting. It’s a long blog – you may want to print it out using the print button on the bottom left of the blog. About 5 years ago, Health Rising did a post on...
I tried to lay as still as possible. It felt like I’d swallowed a stick of dynamite that was slowly detonating. Any movement at all would send what seemed like waves of molten lava cascading inside me. As the burning sensations slowly eased, though, I felt an...
I have a feeling that interesting treatment trials for long COVID may become a regular blog topic on Health Rising. That would be a nice change. Treatment trials have been chronic fatigue syndrome’s Achilles heel. Except for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...
This unusual paper “Investigating Fatigue and Exercise Intolerance in a University Immunology Clinic” is the outcome of 20 years’ work (1998-2019) at the SUNY University immunology clinic in Buffalo, New York by the primary care doctors,...
Health Rising’s fourth IACFS/ME conference overview is also its fifth in a series on possible mitochondrial enhancers in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia. Like the last overview on n-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), this supplement – called...
