The Blood Vessel Crunch: A Unifying Hypothesis for ME/CFS
What happens when your blood vessels get so scrunched down that you have trouble getting enough blood to your tissues? Your system tries to compensate, of course. The nerves lining your blood vessels cause them to open allowing more blood through. But what if that...
Sowing Seeds For Future Success: Solve ME’s 2019 Ramsay Awards
Solve ME's Ramsay Awards fund pilot studies into T-cells, Class II MHC molecules, the microbiome/virome, the autonomic nervous system and brain blood perfusion and functionality in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Are You a Clumper or Slider? The ESR ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Poll
Are you a clumper or slider? The erythrocyte sedimentation test or ESR or SED rate test measures inflammation. SED rates were thought to be VERY low in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) until a British study found otherwise. If you have fibromyalgia or ME/CFS please take the ESR poll.
Hypocapnic Cerebral Hypoperfusion: New Kind of Orthostatic Intolerance Points to Key Factor in ME/CFS and Others
Therefore many patients without tachycardia remain undiagnosed by the tilt test if the end tidal CO2 and CBFv are not measured. Novak – author Orthostatic intolerance just got a bit more complex. That was actually good news. Hopefully chronic fatigue syndrome...
Could Poor Microcirculation Be Causing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)?
Could the microvascular system – the small capillaries and the red blood cells that run through them – hold the key to energy problems in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and perhaps fibromyalgia? The idea that the blood delivery system – not some...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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