Sunday, April 23, 2006
New CFS study in the news!
I don't post about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome much, so people who haven't known me a long time might not know that's why I had to give up the nursing career some years back. There's debate about whether a person goes into remission or just gets used to their new state of being and adapts their activity level to fit. But either way, I get along okay, at maybe 75% on a good day of what I used to be able to do, so I just plug along and don't worry.
The results of a pretty good study got released last week, though. I read several articles, and this one was probably best:
Click here to read
This is pretty much what one school of thought in the CFS communities believed (back when I was reading them)--you start with a genetic pre-disposition. Run crossways of enough of the additive causes--severe viral disease, extreme stress, heavy and ongoing challenges to your immune system (CFS is way over-represented in health care and school workers), and bingo, your body gets all huffy and refuses to play nice any more!
Now if they will just get busy and find some meds or treatments or something!
The results of a pretty good study got released last week, though. I read several articles, and this one was probably best:
Click here to read
This is pretty much what one school of thought in the CFS communities believed (back when I was reading them)--you start with a genetic pre-disposition. Run crossways of enough of the additive causes--severe viral disease, extreme stress, heavy and ongoing challenges to your immune system (CFS is way over-represented in health care and school workers), and bingo, your body gets all huffy and refuses to play nice any more!
Now if they will just get busy and find some meds or treatments or something!
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