New Scientist News – Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind
New Scientist News – Chronic fatigue is not all in the mind
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No S#$%! Glad they have finely figured that one out.
The mechanism that they discuss is interesting.
My symptoms started with a month long bout of flu that left me unable to do much more than real short walks for weeks. That was about 17 years ago. I still have periods that I am unable to do more than just walk from place to place to sit again. Mental activity is almost impossible at those times.
I am coming out of a 2 to 3 week bad period now. This time the mental fog wasn’t as bad but still bad enough that things that I would usually spend minutes on has been taking hours.
Typing during these episodes is always interesting too as I seem to get short circuits between head and hands, so that the finger on the left that is supposed to type the letter will not work but the one on the right hand will do so instead. Or the speed with the nerves fire will seem to vary and I get a lot of “teh” and “ot” and other transposed letters.
I’ve been living with is as there is no alternative that I have found to this point but this sounds like it may have a direct impact on a lot of us…
Themocracy
Gee, CFS is:
Now detectable with new technology.
Seems to be linked to the part of cell biology that deals with metabolising food into energy.
Will soon be recognizable with a test.
May be treatable soon.
And they said nothing would come from mapping the genome……
(Sarcasm tag OFF)
Here’s hoping that CFS and LOTS of things get treatable REAL SOON. Of course, this opens the door to lots of interesting, undetectable (for the most part) ways to murder people, also…..it just HAS to. The better you understand metabolism (or anything else, for that matter), the easier it is to screw it up.
“The more complicated they make the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.”-Captain Scott, Star Trek III.
Interesting that CFS seems to reside in the white cells-sounds like civil war in the immune system, doesn’t it?