crash

Do you get delayed PEM that makes your ME/CFS more severe for a day or more, up to and including permanently? I have started this thread to focus entirely on each poster describing your own experience of PEM. My aim is that we avoid theorising about the underlying biology - keep the focus on...

Not sure if there are many other examples, but Ron Davis mentions one potentially successful case (or could be spontaneous remission) of someone recovering after avoiding crashes for a year: "One researcher had ME and she didn't have a crash and after a year she got better."

In the patient community, it seems somewhat common to refer to instances where PEM (or a crash) led to worsening of the condition which was permanent. I have however yet to find a reference to this in the literature, if someone knows of one, I would be grateful as it is of interest to me, thanks!

Someone knows a dumber method for crashing?

I have seen some discussions here and there around the puzzling fact of muscle pain being a consequence of neural exhaustion, whatever that actually means in pathophysiology, but not within a formal thread. It's not quite clear how much distinction there is between PEM and PENE. Maybe they are...

My question really is about the semantics of 'crash' and 'PEM'. I guess I used to use both these words somewhat interchangeably and wanted to ask PRers what they think. In my experience with ME, PEM, or a worsening of symptoms, happens after mental or physical overexertion and only when I have...

I’m currently crashing and I’m just curious about how you would describe your crashes/flares/PEM/bust phases? What does it feel like? (Bearing in mind I won’t be able to read long answers ;)) To me it feels like the top of my spine is inflamed and also the area which is likely my spleen. Light...

Title says it all really. I normally don't have gut issues but due to recent over-exertion I not only crashed but it also brought on a painful, swollen abdomen with constipation, which is now starting to ease off. This pattern has happened to me before, most notably 14 months ago following a...