How Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Exhaust the Body
Studies thus far indicate the long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) may be exhausting the body in similar ways via viral persistence, autoimmunity, circulatory and blood issues and small fiber neuropathy.
Exercise Challenge Reveals a “Remarkable Discordance” in the Brains of People with ME/CFS
The post-exertional malaise occurring after exercise in chronic fatigue syndrome turns on a part of the brain that makes doing tasks more difficult.
A Similar Kind of Exercise Intolerance is Found in Connective Tissue Diseases, ME/CFS and Long COVID
The same kind of exercise intolerance may exist in chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID and connective tissue diseases.
IACFS/ME Conference 2021 Pt. III – the Exercise Studies: Long COVID Moves Closer to ME/CFS, Metabolomic Weirdness, Two Symptoms to Rule Them All?
Exercise studies at the 2021 IACFS/ME conference suggest that long COVID is similar to ME/CFS, that exercise significantly alters ME/CFS patients metabolism and immune functioning, and that two symptoms may be able to identify post-exertional malaise state that exercise induces.
Is the Exercise Intolerance in Rheumatoid Arthritis and ME/CFS Similar?
People with chronic fatigue syndrome or rheumatoid arthritis both experience exercise intolerance. A recent study suggests that both similar and different processes are at work in both.Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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