Symptoms
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Post-Exertional Malaise, Fatigue, and Crashes
Have you lost your physical and mental stamina? Does minimal activity result in muscular and cognitive exhaustion/fatigue? Does it take days/weeks to recover? This is the place to discuss post-exertional malaise, post-exertional neuro-immune exhaustion, abnormal fatigue and crashes.
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Latest: PEM/PENE differences hamsterman, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:59 PM -
Pain and Inflammation
Many with ME/CFS report a significant degree of pain or myalgia. This is the place to discuss pain, whether widespread, localized, migratory, chronic or acute. Inflammation is the localized reaction of tissue to irritation, injury, and/or infection. Pain and inflammation often go together but not always. Discuss any issues with inflammation here.
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Latest: Pain swallowing starlily88, Apr 20, 2018 at 1:42 AM -
Neurological/Neuro-sensory
Do you have disturbances of taste, smell, hearing, and vision? Do you experience sensory overload, vertigo, feeling unsteady, dizziness, seizures, or disturbances of perception? This is the place to discuss neurological (related to the brain) symptoms. Discuss symptoms related to cognition (thinking, reasoning, brain fog) in the 'Cognition' forum.
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Latest: Brain "snap" or brain twitch maybe some day, Apr 26, 2018 at 9:45 AM -
Cognition
Physical illness often translates into cognitive difficulties. Do you experience symptoms related to attention, memory, language production, learning, reasoning, problem solving and generalized brain fog? Discuss these symptoms here. Do you experience irritability, anxiety, depression that are the result of physical illness or related to having a complex and misunderstood chronic illness? If so, this is the place to discuss them.
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Latest: Progressive Cognitive Difficulties in Adult Patients with Mitochondrial Disease Eastman, Apr 15, 2018 -
Sleep
This is the place to discuss insomnia, prolonged sleep, frequent awakening, awakening early, disturbing dreams, non-refreshing sleep, sleep apnea, and restless leg syndrome.
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Latest: Waking every hour for weeks... Wishful, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:00 PM -
Peripheral Neuropathy
Peripheral Neuropathy refers to damaged nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord. This is the place to discuss nerve pain, numbness, loss of sensation, burning, twitching, and itching (unrelated to allergies).
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Latest: B12 Neuropathy? JES, Mar 19, 2018 -
Immunological
Do you have recurrent sore throats, flu-like symptoms, and tender lymph nodes; viral, bacterial and fungal infections; reactions to immunizations; and allergies? This is the place to discuss these symptoms.
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Latest: Prednisone makes me feel good starlily88, Apr 24, 2018 at 3:41 AM -
Hypersensitivity and Intolerance
Do you have symptoms related to hypersensitivity and/or intolerances to food, mold, chemicals, medications, and electromagnetic energy? Post about them here.
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Latest: Extreme sensitivity to MSG causing severe insomnia - any ideas? bertiedog, Apr 26, 2018 at 1:24 PM -
Autonomic, Cardiovascular, and Respiratory
This is the place to discuss autonomic symptoms such as Orthostatic Intolerance (OI), Neurally-Mediated Hypotension (NMH), Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), and difficulty regulating body temperature. You can also discuss any issues related to the heart, circulation (e.g. poor blood flow, low blood volume), and respiration (e.g. air hunger, difficulty breathing).
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Latest: No clear dx from dysautonomia dr Shoshana, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:00 PM -
Hormones
Post about symptoms related to hormone production. This includes both endocrine (e.g. thyroid, pituitary, adrenal) and reproductive (e.g. estrogen, testosterone, progesterone) hormones.
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Latest: SPINA THYR a research tool to evaluate thyroid function, deiodinases activity, TH resistance Iritu1021, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:20 PM -
Gastrointestinal and Urinary
Do you experience nausea, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, dehydration, difficulties with blood sugar, liver issues, gallbladder issues, gastritis, malabsorption, difficulty swallowing, weight loss, weight gain, leaky gut, general problems with nutrition, urinary frequency and bladder dysfunction? Post about these symptoms here.
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Latest: gastrotic problems that get worse eric_gladiator, Apr 19, 2018 -
Skeleton, Skin, Muscles, Hair, Teeth, and Nails
Skin irritation, rashes, oily skin, dry skin, generalized skin changes, broken bones, fractures, stiff joints, changes in hair, dental problems, nail abnormalities, muscle issues other than pain, and connective tissue disorders? Post about them here.
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Latest: Persistent dandruff. Crash Davis, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:35 AM -
General Symptoms
If your symptoms fit into multiple sub-forums or don’t seem to fit into any of the sub-forums, you can post about them here.
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Latest: heat+cool sensation switch continuously caledonia, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:23 AM
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