“Patients who develop ME/CFS often lose the natural antidepressant effect of exercise, feeling worse after exercise rather than better. Patients may have… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“we see cardiac diastolic dysfunction in almost every case... there are patients whose diastolic dysfunction is so low/poor that they would fit… — Paul Cheney Copy Share Image
“I wake up every morning, thinking that this can't really be happening. What parallel universe have I entered?” — Mary Dimmock Copy Share Image
“It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.” — Daniel L. Peterson Copy Share Image
“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give… — Frederick R.P. Curzon Copy Share Image
“For the last 48 years, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) has been formally classified by the World Health Organisation as a neurological disorder but… — Margaret Williams Copy Share Image
“Historically in the literature CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] was inappropriately touted as a cure for patients with ME/CFS if they changed their… — Alison C. Bested Copy Share Image
“Characteristics of CFS/ME include persistent mental and physical fatigue accompanied by a range of neurological, autonomic, neuroendocrine, immune and sleep difficulties (Carruthers… — Megan A. Arroll Copy Share Image
“ME/CFS is a complex condition that affects every organ system in the body. There is evidence of inflammation at the cellular and… — Alison C. Bested Copy Share Image
“No matter how hopeless you feel, strive to find the one thing that makes you feel alive and pull yourself to the… — Tammy-Louise Wilkins Copy Share Image
“Luckily, we are seeing less and less post-exertional malaise, the symptom that stops Danny’s body and brain recovering properly after expending any… — Sonya Chowdhury Copy Share Image
“M.E. affects children, families and adults in so many different ways and you cannot make assumptions or judgements based just on a… — Sonya Chowdhury Copy Share Image
“There is rightful objection to the denial of appropriate investigations and to the nationwide implementation of behavioural modification as the sole management… — Malcolm hopper Copy Share Image
“CBT is a much publicised and debated psychotherapeutic intervention for ME/CFS….The premise that cognitive therapy (eg. changing ‘illness beliefs’) and graded activity… — Anthony Komaroff Copy Share Image
“(The blood vessels) must be constricted so tight in the brain that little blood gets through. Perhaps it is one of the… — David S. Bell Copy Share Image
“For 13 years now I have suffered. I have lost my job that I loved, my financial independence, my social life, my… — Tracey Browett Copy Share Image
“Because doctors can’t name the illness, everyone—the patient's family, friends, health insurance, and in many cases the patient—comes to think of the… — Joseph Dumit Copy Share Image
“It is [Simon] Wessely’s often-unconcealed “derision” directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on… — Michael Hanlon Copy Share Image
“I have no problem with not understanding the exact mechanism of the symptoms of CFS…I do have a problem with the lack… — David S. Bell Copy Share Image
“Although myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are considered to be synonymous, the definitional criteria for ME and CFS define… — Frank Twisk Copy Share Image
“The finding that ME and CFS group had more functional limitations and more serious symptoms than those with MS [multiple sclerosis] provides… — Leonard A. Jason Copy Share Image
