Evidence surrounding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chris Wragge speaks with CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton about new evidence that will help doctors treat C.F.S. more effectively.

[MommyDontSeeMe]

I'm glad the story aired, but I am a bit confused -- did that doctor just say that physical therapy is a treatment?

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It's kind of like having your brain do a "soft reset" every 3 seconds. The startle reflex dysfunction is the most telling: Normally if someone is about to sneak up on you to scare (startle) you and you hear them coming, you are put into a vigilant state for at least 5 seconds and cannot be startled during that time. With ME/CFS, this does not happen. In essence, we are not able to maintain vigilance during this time (so much for the idea that we are "hyper-vigilant") due to the micro-seizure.

[world.on.fire]

Joke. 13 years ago a break through. 2024 still suffering.

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Right down the line, each and every specific cognitive dysfunction that has been found by neuropsych studies can be explained by this micro-seizure. It also makes a great deal of sense out of why the most helpful medications found are anti-seizure medications (GABA agonists such as Neurontin and Lyrica) and various NMDA/glutatmate antagonists and inhibitors (dextromethorphan, Cannabinoids, Opiods, etc.) These same processes appear to involved with the hyperalgesia pain as well.

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The cognitive dysfunctions appear to all have one singular cause (not talking about the overall cause of the disease however.) What would happen to memory, attention and focus, sleep, executive functioning (i.e., not being impulsive), startle reflex, etc. if one were experiencing an excitatory micro-seizure every couple of seconds? This is exactly what was found by an EEG expert in ME/CFS (alpha wave intrusion like in sleep studies) and it makes perfect sense of all of the cog. issues.

[nedmarc]

except for the new info on bio markers and proteins in spinal fluid, this report was more vague than the illness...

[cfidsmedia]

I did not apriciate, bringing up the mental part of it .
The vidio was to short for a severe illness such as CHRONIC FATIGUE AND IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION AND FIBROMYALGIA .

Thea S Schlosser

[cfidsmedia]

I listen again, if I missed samething in this reporting, but no Idid not .

It would have been better, NOT to have this report, this DR. HAS NO IDEA what she is really taking about and the reporter did not do his home work either.
Chronic fatigue and neuro immunedysfunction is Americas unknown epedemic .

Thea S Schlosser
AUTHOR

[cfidsmedia]

Did not like it .
Thea S Schlosser

Author -publisher-speaker -actovist for this horreble illness

[dirkkatz]

now the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome  is found: radiation of microwaveoven.(magnetron)
To stop you have to eliminate the oven out of the house.
The plug out of electricity net because the oven has also radiation when it is not in use.And out of the house because the oven has a high voltage capacitor.
The distance between an oven and a person is very important.After a 2 weeks without microwaves health becomes better.

[dirkkatz]

Chronic fatigue : difficult to find something. The radiation of microwaves (magnetron)oven creates tension in the muscles.That causes pain and  also bad working of the guts: food is absorbed badly, so you have to little vitamins in the body. Also bad feeling in throat and tension in the rest of the body. Tension in the muscles is also bad sleeping.

[josechicosqui]

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