FINALLY, someone has addressed this very important issue in a publication:
Life-Threatening Malnutrition in Very Severe ME/CFS (Baxter, Speight, and Weir, 2021)
by Helen Baxter, Nigel Speight, and William Weir
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/4/459/htm
Excerpt:
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dysphagia
eating
gastroparesis
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malnutrition
nigel speight
severe me
severe me/cfs
william weir
If I wake up- have black coffee only, I can feel almost normal until I get hungry enough to eat.
No matter what I eat- 45 mins later or so I come down with brain fog, lethargy, that distinct feeling you’ve been poisoned.
infant, fasting with moderate exercise can actually fix me for a few...
I want to discuss with you one strange problem of mine (among other problems). I think many people with CFS or depression have this.
Every evening I have to spend time eating several hours, otherwise I don’t find a place for myself, I feel psychological discomfort, I feel bad and I can’t finish...