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Indicator of chronic fatigue syndrome found in gut bacteria
2016 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/06/indicator-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-found-gut-bacteria
Worse Than the Disease: Curing Chronic Fatigue
https://undark.org/2016/10/27/chronic-fatigue-graded-exercise-pace/ Chronicles the use of GET at the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic.
What Are The Most Important Things To Remember About CFS/FM?
While Dr. Charles Lapp has good information to share about ME/CFS he is a proponent of exercise, GET, which has been proven to be potentially dangerous for PWM. In this article he states… “Make a daily low level exercise program a priority.” Please be very cautious taking this advice from any doctor and keep in …
Muscle Spasms andTremors
: Spasms, fasciculation (worm-like or “crawling” muscles), cramping, myoclonus (brief jerking movements, especially at night), tremors and other neurological symptoms are actually fairly common in CFS/ME/FM. Muscular phenomena (spasms, fasciculation, and cramping) are usually due to reflexive muscle problems. That is, CFS/ME and FM cause muscle to tighten up, but high levels of tension can …
Is CFS/ME An Immune Disorder?
“…the answer is “yes, and no.” Autoimmunity is certainly part of the CFS/ME/FM conundrum, but the disorder also affects the central nervous system, endocrine system, the muscles, and other areas. Some of the first abnormalities noted in PWCs were immunological in origin, namely an increased incidence of autoantibodies, low immunoglobulins, poor NK cell activity, activated …
Does “Brain Fog” Ever Go Away?
“As with most CFS symptoms, cognitive dysfunction waxes and wanes. One report suggests that IQ falls during a flare of cognitive dysfunction, and our personal experience is that memory, attention, processing speed, and other parameters also decline during a flare or relapse. The good news is that cognition improves as one recovers from CFS, and …
Should You Consider A Gluten-Free Diet?
” In the early 1990’s, Dr. Cheney and I performed gastrointestinal studies on PWCs who complained of abdominal distress. We found that a number of patients had abnormal small intestinal biopsies showing intestinal cells with short villi. These villi are used for absorbing nutrients, among other things, and are typically short in a disorder called “celiac …
Butterfingers
“Several studies have confirmed a sort of “feedback failure” with respect to muscle contraction and hand-eye coordination in CFS/ME/FM. PWCs believe that they have a good grip on objects, but drop them anyway; they reach for an object but misjudge and knock it over; or they struggle to put one foot in front of another. …
Treatments for Insomnia
” Most experts on ME/CFS agree that sleep disruption is the one symptoms that should be addressed first. Sleep allows the tired achy muscles to recover; and lack of sleep increases pain and fatigue. There are many ways to approach insomnia, starting with good sleep habits, especially winding down, choosing a schedule and fixed wake …