‘An M.E. patient feels effectively the same every day as an AIDS patient feels two weeks before death.’ Mark Loveless, Infectious Disease Specialist. Today, August 8th is Severely Ill ME Day, a day created by the 25% ME Group to acknowledge, honor and...
If ‘malaise’ doesn’t adequately describe my dreadful condition after too much exertion, it does fit another consequence of ME/CFS. After so many years of trying to pace myself successfully (whatever that means, since my over-taxed level seems to change from...
(Thanks to Julie for allowing Health Rising to reprint her original blog posted on The Last Word on Nothing) Eight years ago, collapsed on a neurologist’s examining table, I asked a naive question that turned out to be at the center of a controversy continuing to this...
(Anne’s is a difficult story but it’s a good story in a way because it demonstrates the full force of this illness. Anne’s story is reminiscent of Jenn Brea, Jamison Hill and Mary Dimmock’s son’s stories. Each was a young adult with not...
“I do not hope for a cure or a radical positive change in my condition; instead I believe in the possibility of pleasurable moments.” Carol Lefelt I am overwhelmed by the large number of responses to my last piece about reaching the age of 70 and feeling...
Prelude Opinions about the Whittemore-Peterson Institute post-XMRV run the gamut from appreciation to anger. In this prelude to the interview, which is not about those issues, I offer up some thoughts. Every organization from the OMI to the CFIDS Association, from...
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