Tag Archives: post-viral fatigue syndrome
Research: PEM in long COVID & ME/CFS
Post-Exertional Malaise in long COVID compared to ME/CFS Researchers at the Bateman Horne clinic in Utah, USA asked long COVID and ME/CFS patients about PEM which they described as: “an unusual worsening of symptoms after minimal physical or mental … Continue reading
Video: Long COVID, Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome & ME/CFS
A new video from Broken Battery describes the overlap in symptoms between Long COVID, Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome and ME/CFS. Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LOvXta5ZaA Excerpts from video: Research that monitored people over time found that many people with Post Viral Fatigue … Continue reading
Managing COVID-19 post viral fatigue syndrome
Managing COVID-19 post viral fatigue syndrome, by Charles W Lapp and Joseph F John in Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior, Feb 22, 2021 Article abstract: In online surveys, over 50% of persons who contract COVD-19 experience symptoms lasting longer than … Continue reading
Diagnostic & pharmacological potency of Creatine in Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome
Diagnostic and pharmacological potency of creatine in Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome by Sergej M. Ostojic in Nutrients 2021, 13(2), 503; [doi.org/10.3390/nu13020503] (This article belongs to the Special Issue Creatine Supplementation for Health and Clinical Diseases) Review abstract Post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) … Continue reading
Ampligen – AIM doses first ‘long hauler’ patient in trial of post-Covid-19 infection
Clinical Trial Arena: AIM doses first ‘long hauler’ patient in trial of post-Covid-19 infection, 7 January 2021 AIM ImmunoTech has dosed its first Covid-19 ‘long hauler’ patient in the active AMP-511 Expanded Access Program (EAP) with the Ampligen (rintatolimod) … Continue reading
Take all post-viral illness seriously!
Take all post-viral illness seriously! WAMES is working to alert the NHS and politicians in Wales to the need to take ALL post-viral illnesses seriously. We’d like to hear about any signs the NHS in Wales is waking up to … Continue reading
The Health Minister, Covid-19, ME, rehabilitation & NICE
The Health Minister comments on Covid-19, ME, rehabilitation & NICE The Health Minister Vaughan Gething has replied to the letter WAMES sent to him on International ME Awareness Day highlighting the links between Covid-19, PVFS and ME, and requesting … Continue reading
Post Covid-19 rehabilitation & PVFS
Physios4ME blog post: Post Covid-19 Rehabilitation, May 2020 During this national crisis many physiotherapists have been redeployed to front-line services, but as time goes on our attention will shift to the rehabilitation of survivors. COVID-19 is a new virus … Continue reading
ME & CFS – no longer classified as ‘Bodily Distress Disorder’ (BDD)
ME & CFS – no longer classified as a ‘Bodily Distress Disorder’ (BDD) by the WHO The World Health Organisation (WHO) have finally accepted that Postviral fatigue syndrome (PVFS) (8E49), Chronic fatigue syndrome (8E49), and Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis (8E49) are … Continue reading
Factors impacting the illness trajectory of post-infectious fatigue syndrome (PIFS)
Research abstract: Factors impacting the illness trajectory of post-infectious fatigue syndrome: a qualitative study of adults’ experiences, by Eva Stormorken, Leonard A. Jason and Marit Kirkevold in BMC Public Health [Published: 13 December 2017] Background: Post-infectious fatigue syndrome (PIFS), also known as post-viral fatigue syndrome, is a complex condition … Continue reading