London Centre for Functional Medicine: Chronic fatigue

Sly Saint

Sly Saint

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Based in Harley Street so guaranteed to be pricey.

conflates chronic fatigue with Chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic fatigue Syndrome is characterized by persistent fatigue and other specific symptoms with potentially many contributing factors. The fatigue is not specifically due to exertion and is not caused by other medical conditions. Unfortunately, often patients are left going around the conventional health system without getting better.

The causes of chronic fatigue are incredibly diverse, from sleep issues, toxin exposures, hormonal imbalance, key nutrient deficiencies, gut issues, hidden infections, auto immune disease, psychological, genetic, food intolerance which can severely your day to day life.

Sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can see their symptoms appear gradually after a period of sustained physical or emotional stress, or it can appear very suddenly which seem like a bout of the flu don’t just won’t go away.
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common symptoms

Insomnia
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Persistent Cough
  • Sleep Disturbances
  • Reoccurring Infections
  • Congnitive Diffciulties
  • Weight Gain
  • Urefreshed sleep
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Depression
"Congnitive Diffciulties"

TREATMENT
At the London Centre for Functional Medicine, our treatment protocols vary with each patient based on their the core imbalances that are interfering with the body’s ability to function correctly. A typical approach to treating chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) can include identify and address underlying factors in your lifestyle that can be contributing to the condition e.g. stress, poor sleep hygiene, sedentary lifestyle.
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If you have fatigue, some forms of exercise has shown to be helpful but exercise can also make things worse. The way to fix your fatigue therefore often involves a range of targeted physical, biochemical, nutritional and psychological treatments.
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https://londoncfm.co.uk/chronic-fatigue/
 
The ‘health conditions’ they list under purview are:
  • Digestive Health
  • Women’s Health
  • Long Covid
  • Men’s Health
  • Autoimmune Conditions
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Thyroid Disorders
  • Stress Management
  • Children’s Health
  • Brain Health
Under Long Covid they say:

There are over 150 different symptoms that have been reported in more than 10 organ systems.

Our Functional Medicine practitioners seek to address the main underlying causes of these debilitating symptoms in order to treat them more effectively and get you back to an improved quality of life, as we understand how this condition can heavily impact patients family, work and social activities.

Some of the most common symptoms include

→ Chronic Fatigue
→ Shortness of breath
→ IBS type symptoms
→ Neurological Symptoms

→ Emotional distress
→ Shortness of breath
→ Brain Fog
→ Muscle Weakness

We will also look to take a detailed history and see what other factors that be contributing to your symptoms, so we can piece together any information that can help determine the imbalance.
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It's M.E. Linda said:
I have emailed the MEA to ask whether this is another example where Dr Shepherd might be able to complain to the Advertising Standards Agency.
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Swift response from Russell of ME Association received today:

“As you can imagine, the more letters that Dr Shepherd writes, the more requests we receive from the community about other health websites in the UK (and abroad!). For now, we are prioritising NHS websites and continuing to work positively with ME/CFS specialist services personnel and healthcare commissioners to get the Guideline's recommendations implemented. We hope to announce that we will soon have dedicated new resource in place to help us in these efforts because improving health and social care is vital. But I will keep this request (as well as all the others) on file until we can review them.”

Any “spots” please email:

feedback@meassociation.org.uk

with the name of the organisation/Health Service/Clinic as the heading.

I will add more information here, if I get any.
 
It's M.E. Linda said:
Swift response from Russell of ME Association received today:

“As you can imagine, the more letters that Dr Shepherd writes, the more requests we receive from the community about other health websites in the UK (and abroad!). For now, we are prioritising NHS websites and continuing to work positively with ME/CFS specialist services personnel and healthcare commissioners to get the Guideline's recommendations implemented. We hope to announce that we will soon have dedicated new resource in place to help us in these efforts because improving health and social care is vital. But I will keep this request (as well as all the others) on file until we can review them.”

Any “spots” please email:

feedback@meassociation.org.uk

with the name of the organisation/Health Service/Clinic as the heading.

I will add more information here, if I get any.
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Hi Linda Maybe worth suggesting to Russell that it would be simpler for someone from ME A folks to just check on here a couple of times a week to see what people have posted rather than people here having to duplicate efforts sending emails and clogging up their inbox. There are quite a few threads highlighting problems and they don’t want multiple emails about the same service.

also if they are looking for people to work with on writing letters maybe a couple of us here would be able/willing to do that as part of a collaborative effort??
 
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NelliePledge said:
Hi Linda Maybe worth suggesting to Russell that it would be simpler for someone from ME A folks to just check on here a couple of times a week to see what people have posted rather than people here having to duplicate efforts sending emails and clogging up their inbox. There are quite a few threads highlighting problems and they don’t want multiple emails about the same service.

also if they are looking for people to work with on writing letters maybe a couple of us here would be able/willing to do that as part of a collaborative effort??
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isn't there a way that Russell could receive an email from here when tagged? I've had a look in account settings but I can't see it, but I seem to vaguely remember getting email alerts for something until I turned it off......?
 
NelliePledge said:
Hi Linda Maybe worth suggesting to Russell that it would be simpler for someone from ME A folks to just check on here a couple of times a week….

also if they are looking for people to work with on writing letters maybe a couple of us here would be able/willing to do that as part of a collaborative effort??
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Sly Saint said:
isn't there a way that Russell could receive an email from here when tagged?
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Thanks both, I will suggest that to @Russell Fleming, especially if some Technical Wizard* can confirm that an email alert can go to a member when they are tagged?

* @NelliePledge / Moderators - May we have assistance in whether this alert could work please?
 
It's M.E. Linda said:
Thanks both, I will suggest that to @Russell Fleming, especially if some Technical Wizard* can confirm that an email alert can go to a member when they are tagged?

* @NelliePledge / Moderators - May we have assistance in whether this alert could work please?
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As far as I can see on the preferences I can set for my alerts, there is not a option to ask for emails when tagged.
I think it would be better to suggest to Russell that he check the forum at least once a week. If he has his preferences set to receive an alert whenever he is tagged, then he will be able to find them quickly. I think it quite likely someone at the MEA is checking the section of the forum on UK ME services regularly anyway.
 
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