Effects of Long Covid and ME/CFS on Sleep

Many individuals who have had COVID-19 experience long-term symptoms that have a major impact on their lives. One of the most common symptoms is sleep disturbance. After more than six […]

Announcing the 2023 World ME Day Campaign

We’re joining our peer organizations at the World ME Alliance again for World ME Day 2023. This year’s theme focuses on the hallmark symptom of ME/CFS: post-exertional malaise. The goal […]

Guest Blog: Dr. Lucinda Bateman on the Discussion Surrounding the IOM Report

Lucinda Bateman, MD, specializes in the diagnosis and management of unexplained chronic fatigue, ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. Having served on the IOM committee that produced the recent report, Beyond ME/CFS: Redefining an Illness, she brings an in-depth, well-informed opinion to the conversation surrounding the IOM report on ME/CFS, the new diagnostic criteria and the proposed name, Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease (SEID). READ MORE…

Post-Exertional Malaise in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

By Jennifer Spotila, J.D. for The CFIDS Association of America, 2010 Part One – Unraveling Post-exertional Malaise Muscle wilting meltdown, air gulping short of oxygen feeling, brain blood vessels flayed […]