By Jo Marchant — 2016
In an extract from her book Cure, Jo Marchant tells the story of Samantha Miller, one sufferer of the controversial condition.
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CLEAR ALL
Understand life with chronic illness in a way that’s never been explained before, using Christine Miserandino’s “Spoon Theory.”
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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Do you ever get downright angry with your body? Do symptoms of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or other chronic illnesses make you want to yell at yourself?
Most people with these illnesses agree that stress makes symptoms worse, sometimes even triggering debilitating flares.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a condition that can be hard to cope with. But you can adopt some strategies to make it easier.
After months of dealing with constant, extreme exhaustion that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I slept, in 2015, a doctor told me I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chronic fatigue syndrome may receive inappropriate care due to a widespread misunderstanding of this condition among health care workers
Cognitive behavioral therapy and an exercise program appear to be the best treatments to improve function and symptoms of fatigue in patients with CFS.
Fatigue isn’t just being tired. It robs us of our ability to think clearly and of our motivation. Your body feels like it’s powering off like a dying battery.
A collaborative JAX research center is diving deep into the biology of ME/CFS patients to find a root cause, which may lie in their own immune systems. If successful, the work will provide patients with clear diagnoses and effective therapies.