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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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Exercise may be recommended as part of a wellness regimen in chronic illness. However, exercise intolerance is a central feature of ME/CFS, and patients show multiple abnormal responses to exercise. ME/CFS patients report that increased activity has reduced their physical and cognitive capacity... (more...)
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Daniel L. Peterson, MD, is a doctor in Incline Village, Nevada, United States, which had an outbreak of chronic fatigue syndrome in 1984. Dr Paterson has extensively researched Ampligen as a treatment for ME/CFS, including running clinical trials ... (more...)
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In the news
- Two new clinical trials announced: Open Medicine Foundation - May 2020
- ME Awareness Month begins - May 2020
- News articles: ME & CFS after COVID-19 - May 2020
- Cyclophosphamide clinical trial: positive results - Apr 2020
- Post-COVID-19 illness (new page) - Mar 2020
- Coronavirus disease 19 - advice from ME charity scientific advisors - Mar 2020
- Public health expert David Tuller begins crowdfunding for another year's work, including ME/CFS and COVID-19 - Apr 2020
- Solve ME/CFS Initiative announces a new partnership to improve ME/CFS research - Apr 2020
- ME charities publish advice on the Coronavirus and COVID-19 for patients - Feb/Mar 2020
- 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
Categories
- Alternative medicine
- Anabolic steroids
- Analgesics
- Anti-inflammatories
- Antibiotics
- Anticonvulsants
- Antidepressants
- Antiemetics
- Antifungals
- Antihistamines
- Antimalarials
- Antioxidants
- Antiparasitics
- Antipsychotics
- Antivirals
- Benzodiazepines
- Brain training
- Calcium channel blockers
- Cannabis-derived drugs
- Central nervous system stimulants
- Corticosteroids
- Depression brain-based treatments
- Depression treatments
- Detoxification
- Diets
- Disinfectants
- Drug-free pain management
- Electrical and nerve stimulation
- Environmental treatments
- Fatty acids
- Flavonoids
- Free fatty acids
- Growth factors
- Herbs
- Immunomodulators
- Immunostimulants
- Immunosuppressants
- Leukotriene inhibitors
- Management strategies
- Mast cell stabilizers
- Medicinal foods
- Mind body treatments
- Minerals
- Muscle relaxants
- Non-benzodiazepine hypnotics
- Norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitors
- Opioids
- Other antidepressant drugs
- Pharmaceutical books
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids
- Probiotics
- Protocols
- Psychological and behavioral therapies
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
- Serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitors
- Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
- Sleep aids and hypnotics
- Supplements
- Traditional Chinese medicine
- Traditional Korean medicine
- Tricyclic antidepressants
- Vasoconstrictors
- Vitamins
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