(In the second of a series of blogs of presentations on the UK CFS/ME Research Collaborative (CMRC) Conference in September of this year, Simon tackles Dr. Lloyds fascinating talk on the how infections trigger chronic fatigue syndrome. Thanks for Simon’s and Action...
The renowned Stanford geneticist, Ron Davis Ph.D., who’s son Whitney has a very serious case of ME/CFS has opened a research foundation at Stanford to find answers to ME/CFS. He’s also, on the foundations’ Facebook page, supplying answers to one...
Esther’s Xifaxin Story “It’s impossible to describe the awe I (and my husband) feel as I am able to do things I haven’t been able to do for so many years.” Here we recount Esther’s amazing experience with Xifaxin (Rifaxamin), an antibiotic often used...
My ME/CFS History 1989 – The First Flu-like Illness I was always a high energy burn the candle at both ends type-A person. In my early twenties (1989) I came down with a flu-like illness that did not go away. I had gone from a person who would play sports 4-6...
Epstein-Barr virus just keeps showing up in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). After the Lipkin study suggested EBV activation wasn’t a problem a German study suggested it was. Now, we look at that issue and a fascinating hypothesis proposing that poorly...