Fellow sufferers and other people who know the illness myalgic encephalomyelitis may have noticed something missing from this blog: the three letters CFS. This is a very deliberate omission on my part. To understand this, one has to again look…
Spoiler: I did not! I may write a dedicated post in the future about the history of myalgic encephalomyelitis and how it has been framed as psychological. For now, the short version is this: a faction within medicine still believes,…
Early in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the WHO said things like “Most people will experience mild symptoms,” meaning they will not require hospitalization. Most people, when thinking about a “mild” illness, probably imagine something annoying, but not really limiting. A mild…
Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a severe, chronic neuroimmune disease that impairs multiple bodily systems, including the nervous, immune, and metabolic systems. The hallmark feature of myalgic encephalomyelitis is post-exertional malaise (PEM), or, more accurately, post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), but PEM is…