Why Do I Wake Up Exhausted?
"There are at least four core symptoms in ME/CFS: pain, cognitive dysfunction, fatigue or post-exertional malaise, and non-restorative sleep. Thus, awakening unrefreshed is one of the cardinal symptoms of ME/CFS, and one of the last symptoms to resolve as one improves. You will probably wake up tired whether you sleep 4 hours or 14. Nevertheless, primary sleep […]
Make a daily low level exercise program a priority by Dr. Charles Lapp
While Dr. Charles Lapp has good information to share about ME/CFS he is a proponent of exercise the exercise therapy 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 […]
What about Exercise? by Physios (Physical Therapists) for ME
“Do not offer people with ME/CFS physical activity or exercise programmes that use fixed incremental increases, based on deconditioning and exercise avoidance theories as perpetuating ME/CFS.” https://www.physiosforme.com/what-about-exercise
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Using Graded Exercise to Get More Energy
It's appalling that GET is still being recommended. Kaiser Permanente gets a whole whopping rating of . https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/kbase/topic.jhtml?docId=zx1021
Study finds brain abnormalities in chronic fatigue patients
Radiology researchers have discovered that the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have diminished white matter and white matter abnormalities in the right hemisphere. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/10/study-finds-brain-abnormalities-in-chronic-fatigue-patients.html
Scientists Discover Robust Evidence That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is a Biological Illness
IMMUNE SIGNATURES IN BLOOD POINT TO DISTINCT DISEASE STAGES, OPEN DOOR TO BETTER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/scientists-discover-robust-evidence-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-biological
Cornell University's Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease
https://neuroimmune.cornell.edu/ https://neuroimmune.cornell.edu/
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.