France

Research
END of 2015: State of M.E. Research /recognition of M.E. in FRANCE :

- NO ONE Doctors specializing in M.E. in our country ( except perhaps Professor Gregoire Cozon, Immunologist (Lyon), which was the first in France to have had the courage to rebel against the psychiatric treatment of the disease )

- The insultive employment of the term "CFS" (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), when this is not the ridiculous name of "Anglo-Saxon disease", which has been in widespread,

- Psychiatrization and / or denial of our illness, even today, in France, despite the almost 5,000 existing ME/CFS studies on NCBI & co, the various existing International Consensus Diagnostics Criterias, and the recognition and classification by the WHO of M.E. since 1969 (ICD-8), under the code G93.3 in ICD-10, as a serious debilitating neuro-immunological disease, multisystemic, thus affecting throughout the body (cardiovascular, endocrine, musculoskeletal .. - non-exhaustive list, etc.)

- Only one Association, ( Association Française du Syndrome de Fatigue Chronique), but wich makes us more harm than goodness: their leaders and their referring doctors still actually refer, doctors who have the humility and curiosity to call them to learn about the disease, at practices as dangerous and harmful to us, as GET (Gradual Exercise Therapy) and C.B.T. (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy).

Indeed, leaders and doctors of this unique French Association, continue to cite / refer to these doctors at The Lancet and Cochrane, although the PACE trial is actualy more than controversial, and about to be removed from websites specializing in scientific publications.

Despite that (to my knowledge), we suffer from the only one disease in the world, wich is AGGRAVATED by the effort, whether cognitive or physical (PENE = Post Exertionnal Neuro-Immune Exhaustion). Despite the dozen of scientific publications demonstrating our defects -among other immune-post effort) ... etc

- The only French Center of "Brain and spinal cord", (which is very young, since it has less than 5 years) , has never heard about M.E. ......

- The only French specialist of Encephalopathies / Encephalomyelopathies, ( Jerome Honnorat, Pr, Lyon), either, apparently ... ( (Pr. Jerome Honnorat was a student of the discoverer of the anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, Pr Dalmau )

France is currently experiencing an absolute medical desert, regarding M.E. disease. Worse, ME is referenced as a psy disease ,and it is unacceptable.

Access to care
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