by Cort Johnson | Feb 23, 2022 | COVID-19, Homepage, Immune, Interferons
A model proposes that people with low IgG3 levels, high symptom levels and asthma are more likely to come down with long COVID.
by Cort Johnson | Dec 23, 2021 | Autoimmune, B-cells, COVID-19, Homepage, Immune, long COVID, POTS
Friendly Fire? Recent studies featuring potentially game-changing blood vessel problems in ME/CFS/FM and long COVID have been illuminating but have lacked a crucial component: how it all started. A July study led by Edward Yang and fellow Yale researchers published in...
by Cort Johnson | Nov 3, 2021 | COVID-19, Homepage
Health Rising's largest coronavirus infection and vaccine effects poll asks how people with fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue syndrome and related diseases have done over time.
by Cort Johnson | Oct 27, 2021 | Fibromyalgia and Pain, Giardia, Homepage
A Norwegian study finds that long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome aren't the only post-infectious diseases but that fibromyalgia can be triggered by an infection as well.
by Cort Johnson | Sep 12, 2021 | Basal Ganglia, Homepage, HPA axis, Inflammation, Microbiome, Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, Pathogens, Sleep
Although fatigue has traditionally been scorned in medical research. studies show that ME/CFS – the “chronic fatigue syndrome” – is significantly more functionally disabling than multiple sclerosis, heart failure, diabetes, depression, and...
by Cort Johnson | Aug 26, 2021 | COVID-19, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Homepage, Small Fiber Neuropathy
FibroCOVID - people with long COVID who meet the criteria for fibromyalgia was commonly found in one study as was small fiber neuropathy which is also common in fibromyalgia.