fatigue

Moderator note. Thread moved from: https://www.s4me.info/threads/persistent-fatigue-induced-by-interferon-alpha-a-novel-inflammation-based-proxy-model-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-2018-pariante-et-al.7050/page-19#post-130652 I get the impression that a key problem we're facing is that we don't...

New paper - has a number of red flags. Focuses on fatigue description and " payback" as a description for PEM without much definition. Questionnaire based, pre diagnosed Mild/ moderate but not housebound I don't know if any comorbidities (OI, EDS etc) have even been thought about I have not...

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" A quarter of the population claim to suffer from fatigue. But sometimes extreme tiredness can be hiding a more serious illness. It is easy to blame exhaustion on the stresses of an increasingly demanding lifestyle or work. But if after six months those feelings of exhaustion haven't gone...

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I was playing around with a medical dictionary to try and come up with an alternative for 'fatigue' which is more or less the common denominator in all ME/CFS diagnostic criteria. Note: I was not trying to invent a new name for the illness! Anyway, having come up with a couple I thought I'd...

Note from the moderators: The discussion in this thread is focussed on the BPS theory of deconditioning. There is another thread for discussing the issue raised in this post: Muscle atrophy ****************************** Hi Everyone My recent muscle biopsy of my thigh has led to what seems...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10916-018-1033-3

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Open access at http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/8/3/42

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/endometriosis-chronic-fatigue-me-symptoms-menstrual-cycle-cramps-pain-insomnia-depression-a8418021.html

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10096-018-3265-z Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2018 May 26. doi: 10.1007/s10096-018-3265-z. [Epub ahead of print] Interferon-γ and CXCL10 responses related to complaints in patients with Q fever fatigue syndrome. Raijmakers RPH1,2, Jansen AFM3,4...

Cortical hypoactivation during resting EEG suggests central nervous system pathology in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome M.A.Zinn, M.L.Zinn, I.Valencia, L.A.Jason, J.G.Montoya https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.05.016 sci-hub link...

http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-23402-001 Is fatigue a disease-specific or generic symptom in chronic medical conditions? Journal Article Database: PsycARTICLES Menting, Juliane Tack, Cees J. Bleijenberg, Gijs Donders, Rogier Droogleever Fortuyn, Hal A. Fransen, Jaap...

Unexplained fatigue seems to be assumed to equate to CFS by the authors. https://www.kjfm.or.kr/journal/view.php?doi=10.4082/kjfm.2018.39.3.180

The following list of studies and other papers could be helpful with regard to the claim that symptoms classified as 'fatigue' can't be measured objectively, or that potential objective measures are too unspecific. In the field of MS research, some people looked for objective measures...

Title altered slightly to fit but left untouched below. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755330 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00078/full