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Treatments
The following are potential treatments for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), ME/CFS, it's symptoms, and other illnesses, diseases, and conditions like fibromyalgia, sleep dysfunction, depression, etc., found on MEpedia.
DISCLAIMER: The following is a range of some of the interventions (including anecdotal) that have been used by patients to try to treat both individual symptoms and the disease as a whole, some of which have been researched and many which have not. The vast majority lack ANY reliable evidence of efficacy. Many carry significant side-effects and risks. (more...)
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Pacing is an activity management strategy to help ME/CFS patients limit the number and severity of relapses, and helps avoid deterioration, without avoiding all activity. First described by health psychologist Ellen Goudsmit in 1989, it gives patients the advice to: "do as much as you can within your limits".
Pacing recognizes research showing an abnormal metabolic and immunological response to exercise in ME/CFS.
Pacing has been used as a management strategy in a number of multi-component clinical treatment trials, and in several large patient surveys the majority of patients found be helpful (more...)
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In the news
- Open Medicine Foundation Canada launched to find a cure for ME/CFS - Aug 2019
- ME specialist Byron Hyde no longer able to practice medicine - Aug 2019
- Australian ME/CFS Biobank to be setup after A$1 million grant awarded - Aug 2019
- Major Editorial correction for Esther Crawley's Lightning Process trial - Jul 2019
- A nanoelectronics blood-based diagnostic biomarker for ME/CFS - Apr 2019
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