How to Prove to Your Doctor You’ve Got Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and are Not Just Depressed
Wrong diagnoses hurt. They lead doctors to prescribe treatments that don’t work and may even be harmful (exercise!) and they keep doctors from prescribing treatments that do work. They waste patients’ money and, given the fact that the earlier a person is...
Stress By Any Other Name: Inflammation, ‘Stress’ and Chronic Fatigue and Fibromalygia: An Inquiry
“Sometimes I think I’m so overwhelmed that the little, simple things that other people do or say really set me off emotionally, which we know only makes the pain worse.“ Person with Fibromyalgia One of the most puzzling aspects of my Chronic Fatigue...Antidepressants, Talk Therapy and Reich: The Early Therapists – Pt. III of ‘A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Chronicle’
(Part 3, The Odyssey, Chapter 2) Tom Johnson, a Therapist Friend of a Therapist Friend, Metuchen, NJ Another teeny dark office, filled with garage-sale stuffed furniture and noise machines for a hushed, secretive cloudiness. Tom was a nice-looking, sweet, smart man...The Splitter: Researcher Asserts ‘Brain-damaged’ Subset Present in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The Subset Researcher Virtually everybody for decades has believed ME/CFS is larded with subsets and everyone agrees we must find them yet very few researchers, through lack of money or initiative, have actually looked for them in an organized fashion. Dr. Natelson...Scared Stiff? Exploring Anxiety, Autoimmunity and Infection in Stiff Person Syndrome – A Possible Model For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
(Marco digs into a controversial subject in this second of two blogs on Stiff Person Syndrome and ME/CFS – “Is the depression/anxiety present in Stiff Person Syndrome and, possibly by reflection, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a consequence of having a...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
Allyn Archer
Atlanta, United States
Former occupation: Architect, Professor of Architecture
$2,768,291
StudyME
Enroll in the OMF’s StudyME project and help bring about a cure for ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS and long COVID.
