PEM occurs in me quite predictably after certain activities, (and arguably the main issue i suffer from) and I was curious what studies had been done that involve triggering PEM in individuals with ME/CFS and doing tests while this occurs to see what is happening/causing it. It's maybe an obvious thing to do, but I'm just not familiar at all with any theories or studies that point to reasons for its occurrence.
Any studies carried out on triggered PEM me/CFS sufferers?
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Right, well im both surprised and not surprised. Perhaps there are reasons why it is not seen as something worth pursuing whilst other studies have been?
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There are a lot of studies that are specifically designed to find out what happens during PEM, including some very interesting ones that were published earlier this year! Right now I don't have the brainpower to go through the findings but there 's an excellent post on Health Rising about some of them: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2...mune-system-letdown-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
thanks @Mimicry , just read it. Interesting -
"The problem appears to be less that ME/CFS patients’ systems are responding in strange ways to exercise than that they’re not responding at all."
NK Cells stuff is also v interesting..though are arent NK Cells like the 'microbiome', in that we know virtually nothing about it or how to manipulate it in a controlled way?
"The problem appears to be less that ME/CFS patients’ systems are responding in strange ways to exercise than that they’re not responding at all."
NK Cells stuff is also v interesting..though are arent NK Cells like the 'microbiome', in that we know virtually nothing about it or how to manipulate it in a controlled way?
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Unfortunately I don't know much about the immune system, I'm still learning this stuff myself.
Here's another summary of a recent study written by Cort Johnson, I just got around to reading it myself
https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2...-exertional-malaise-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
As far as I can tell, neither do physicians. So you're in good company.
