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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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    Does anyone think they could have something else?

    Why do we call it ME? Do we have evidence that most people with CFS have inflammation in the brain and nervous system? no we don't. I think CFS is a much more fitting term. Maybe some individuals are suffering from something like ME and the symptoms overlap with CFS, but lets not say ME/CFS like...
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    Does anyone think they could have something else?

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that are correlated with each other. People can have undiagnosed and subclinical forms of disease which are difficult to diagnose. Someone with severe and disabling fatigue can get the label CFS. But most people with...