Another “ME/CFS Moment”! ME/CFS is Much More Common than Thought, Says CDC
Whoa. Another ME/CFS moment. "ME/CFS moments" are events that appear to signal that things are changing for the better for this long-neglected disease (ME/CFS). The disease is being accepted more, and gaining traction in ways that it hadn't before. With several...
Apples and Oranges? The Common Cold, the Coronavirus, ME/CFS and Long COVID
A new phrase - "long cold" - recently entered the medical lexicon. A "long cold" is what you have if you fail to recover from an ordinary respiratory virus. That idea, of course, is not news to people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) - many of whom became ill...
Why are Some ME/CFS Patients so Thirsty? Have They Been Historically Misdiagnosed as ‘Psychogenic Water Drinkers’?
Thanks again to Patrick for letting Health Rising publish his blog. In it Patrick opens up new ground on a topic that hasn't received the attention it deserves - the unusual thirst that many people with ME/CFS experience. Please note this is a long (but very...
The Nicotine Patch Long COVID, ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
Nicotine - what a strange thing! Nicotine patches are perhaps the most surprising entrant yet in the treatment sweepstakes for long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, and related diseases. Nicotine, of course, is the substance in the tobacco in...
Dan Neuffer on Recovery From ME/CFS and FM Pt. 3: Who Can Recover?
This is the 3rd in a series of interviews with Dan Neuffer. The creator of the ANS Rewired program and the author of CFS Unravelled, Dan has been exploring the world of recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia (FM) and related diseases for over...
The 2023 NIH ME/CFS Conference is Coming – Register Soon!
An Interesting Time for ME/CFS at the NIH National Institutes of Health (NIH) Conferences on ME/CFS are rare events - the last one was four years ago. They're important in several ways - for one, because they have the imprimatur of the NIH, they're more likely to...
Three Severely Ill Long COVID Patients – Three Rapid Recoveries: Monoclonal Antibodies, LC and ME/CFS
Every now and then my mouth gapes open with I read a paper. While the limitations of this paper must be noted - a small sample set involving three case reports - its conclusion - a very rapid return to health of people with severe long-term COVID - makes one sit up...
Health Rising’s 2023 BIG (little) Year End Fundraising Drive is On!
It's that time again. It's Health Rising's BIG, BIG, BIG (but also little) fundraising drive. It's big in that it's when we get more support at this time of the year than other but little in that we don't need what the big organizations do. We don't have expensive...
The Re-Infection Question in Long COVID, ME/CFS and Post-Infectious Diseases
"This pandemic shone a very, very good light on the idea that there is really an intimate connection between infections and chronic disease. It was really hardwired into our medical training as doctors that most infections, when people get over the hump of the acute...