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    Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of, and finding treatments for, complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.

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    Severe PEM...feels like I don't even have the energy to breathe....

    Is there anyone that can help me? I have CFS and I'm having one of those nights where I'm too exhausted to breathe. I went to bed at 7.p.m, so exhausted that I could barely pull back my bed covers and slept lightly for a few hours and woke up almost unable to breathe, every breath a labour of...