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  1. nerd

    CNS-related crashes with dominant nausea

    I'm curious if any of you has the same manifestation of acute crashes as I have. Because in my case, the sequence is relatively consistent among all the incidents. Yesterday, I had another lukewarm bath. These baths happen to change something so that I wake up early and feel ready for the day...
  2. MartinK

    majority or minority ME/CFS worsens only physical activity (not mental) (POLL)

    I'm very interested in this! In last years I wrote with many ME/CFS patients, or read posts here, on reddit, FB groups...whatever. After that long time, I feel like one of the few who have long-term severe and mooore seveve ME/CFS or PEM/crashes with no worsening mental activity...no brain fog...