BBC Radio programme on tinnitus
I haven't listened to this yet so don't know how relevant it is to ME.
Hearing me
The Documentary
(This programme contains audio effects that may cause discomfort to people living with hearing conditions. There is a modified version of this programme, with...
hi all I’m currently having a flare up of sore throat swollen glands general flu type aches headache and low appetite ears hurt because of swollen glands. I haven’t been in contact with people much recently. Every time I get this I scratch my head as to whether it’s a viral infection or the...
A study that is of interest because it measured activity levels with an accelerometer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22032215
Unfortunately the authors did not investigate further to find out the "direction of these relations".
Provisionally accepted 26 Feb 2019, full text soon
Chronotropic incompetence: an overlooked determinant of symptoms and activity limitation in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome?
Davenport et al
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2019.00082/abstract
Does anyone know if there have been any studies following the long term outcomes of people who exhibit what I would term physical signs and symptoms (diarrhoea, tremors and shaking, irritable bowel, chills, aphasia, ataxia... etc - see places like webmd for lists) which have been widely ascribed...
Source: PlosOne
Vol 14, #2, p e0210394
Date: February 5, 2019
URL:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0210394
Impairments in cognitive performance in chronic fatigue syndrome are common, not related to co-morbid depression but do associate with autonomic...
I took Valcyte for 2 1/2 years. I had suspected infectious onset based on initial fever and symptoms, as well as chronically very high EBV, CMV, HHV-6 antibody titers. Valcyte didn’t have any effect on my ME, though I was working full-time and push-crashing all the time.
Valcyte also had this...
A note for those who use sleep medication to help combat ME sleep issues - this might be more difficult to answer since the body becomes somewhat dependent on medication when taken chronically. If you could try to answer based on your time with ME before you ever took sleep meds or, if that is...
Slightly confused, as Lenny Jason is saying that this was just published when the journal webpage says first published 2016, so I went with the journal.
Paywalled at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105316664139
One of the most debilitating aspects of my ME is that the disease causes me major sleep inversion. On most evenings, after significant enough exertion builds up from the previous day(s), I primarily get a very strong brain wired-but-tired feeling and my gut starts becoming irritated.
I also...
Chronic fatigue syndrome in the emergency department
https://www.dovepress.com/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-in-the-emergency-department-peer-reviewed-article-OAEM
Purpose: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating disease characterized by fatigue, postexertional malaise, cognitive...
I’ve just recovered from the first proper cold I’ve ever gotten since I fell ill with ME/CFS six years ago. The first 3-4 years I never once felt even a wisp of a cold/flu coming on, and the last couple years maybe twice I felt under the weather like a cold was coming on but it never did. The ME...
An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here.
Paywalled at...
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