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‘ME/CFS is considered a chronic illness, but longitudinal studies suggest that 17-64% of adult PWCs improve, less than 10% fully recover.  The improvement rate is even better for adolescents with ME/CFS.  The current standard of therapy is to treat sleep and pain issues first, then address co-morbidities or other health issues.  Dr. Bruce Campbell and …

“There are at least four core symptoms in ME/CFS:  pain, cognitive dysfunction, fatigue or post-exertional malaise, and non-restorative sleep.  Thus, awakening unrefreshed is one of the cardinal symptoms of ME/CFS, and one of the last symptoms to resolve as one improves. You will probably wake up tired whether you sleep 4 hours or 14.   Nevertheless, primary sleep …

It’s appalling that GET is still being recommended.  Kaiser Permanente gets a whole whopping rating of . https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/kbase/topic.jhtml?docId=zx1021

Radiology researchers have discovered that the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have diminished white matter and white matter abnormalities in the right hemisphere. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2014/10/study-finds-brain-abnormalities-in-chronic-fatigue-patients.html  

IMMUNE SIGNATURES IN BLOOD POINT TO DISTINCT DISEASE STAGES, OPEN DOOR TO BETTER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/scientists-discover-robust-evidence-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-biological

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    https://undark.org/2016/10/27/chronic-fatigue-graded-exercise-pace/ Chronicles the use of GET at the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic.