Title : Mitochondrial Myopathy in Follow-up of a Patient With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Link : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748504/
Abstract
Introduction. Symptoms of mitochondrial diseases and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) frequently overlap and can easily be mistaken...
Serum GDF-15 Levels Accurately Differentiate Patients with Primary Mitochondrial Myopathy, Manifesting with Exercise Intolerance and Fatigue, from Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Authors from the Neuromuscular Disorders Unit of the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid (national...
https://bcmj.org/articles/mitochondrial-disease-clinical-manifestations-overview
This has some comments on adult-onset mitochondrial disease which is relevant to ME/CFS in my opinion. The authors say that:
Mitochondrial diseases are heterogeneous and multifaceted, and can present at any age...
I'm not sure if I should continue to try and find some other disease that could explain my symptoms. If I have ME/CFS then it doesn't make much sense but I can't be certain that I have ME/CFS because there's no reliable diagnostic test. I've also started to doubt that PEM is a reliable indicator...
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