Long COVID and ME/CFS – the Brainstem / Dysautonomia Connection
Long COVID researchers are finding evidence of autonomic nervous dysfunction, small fiber neuropathy, brainstem damage and angiotensin problems. All these are also found in chronic fatigue syndrome
Explaining Paul Garner’s Long COVID Recovery Story (???) Plus What Does It Mean?
Paul Garner’s recovery story from long COVID has met with almost universal dismay and anger from the chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) community. Garner, after all, was something of a champion for long COVID and ME/CFS. An infectious diseases specialist who had...
Avindra Nath on “A Neurologic Crisis” Plus Leaky Brains in Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia?
Brain autopsy results indicate that COVID-19 patients may have thinned blood vessels in the brain which are prone to leak and trigger small strokes in the brain. A similar finding showed up in a chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) almost 30 years ago. Blood vessel problems may be rife in both diseases.
Paradigm Shift for Long COVID (and ME/CFS?) Plus the Friendly Fire Hypothesis: Could Autoimmunity Be Behind it All?
Paradigm Shift for Long COVID Patients (and people with ME/CFS)? The dramatic announcement that Congress is going to appropriate over a billion dollars (a billion dollars!) to study the COVID-19 long haulers was just one sign that long COVID is being taken seriously....
Congress Approves Over a Billion Dollars to Study Long-COVID: Implications for ME/CFS
Emily Taylor of Solve ME/CFS Initiative reported that Congress has approved $1.15 billion (yes that’s a billion with a “B”) for the NIH to fund long-COVID research and clinical trials. $100 million will specifically be used for the rapid acceleration...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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