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Australian scientists have, according to the article, discovered that CFS is real (again ) and the 'cure' may be calcium channel blockers. (Problem here is that some of us are already taking them when our orthostatic hypotension flipped into orthostatic hypertension, and still have ME.)
Australian scientists have, according to the article, discovered that CFS is real (again ) and the 'cure' may be calcium channel blockers. (Problem here is that some of us are already taking them when our orthostatic hypotension flipped into orthostatic hypertension, and still have ME.)
Australian scientists prove Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is real and have discovered a test for it
Sue Dunlevy, National Health Reporter, News Corp Australia Network
December 23, 2017 11:00am
ITS been derided as yuppie flu and flummoxed doctors for decades but now Australian scientists have proved Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is real.
Better yet they’ve come up with a test for it and are now trialling cheap medications used for other diseases they hope may help treat it.
Around 240,000 Australians suffer from the debilitating illness that drains them of energy, leaving them bedridden suffering terrible muscle pain, cognition problems, gastric and cardiac issues.
AFL legend Alastair Lynch, who won a hat-trick of premierships with the Brisbane Lions in 2001, 2002 and 2003, suffered the illness so badly he was passing blood and sleeping up to 18 hours a day.
Alastair Lynch celebrates Brisbane Lions’ 2003 AFL Grand Final win. Picture: News Corp
At its worst, Lynch — who was an athletic 96kg, 26-year-old at the time said of his chronic fatigue: “I actually couldn’t lift myself out of bed.”
“It was in the prime of my athletic career ... and it was scary at the time. When I eventually got up I was passing blood, everything seemed to be shutting down and I was sleeping 18 hours a day and waking up more tired than when I went to bed.”
Scientists have rebadged the illness Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and claim Chronic Fatigue Syndrome does not do justice to the symptoms patients suffer.
Now a team led by Griffith University immunologist Professor Sonya Marshall Gradisnik has discovered the illness is related to problems in the ion channels that allow calcium into the body’s cells.
Griffith University Professor of Immunology Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferer Bronwyn Sonter. Picture: Glenn Hampson
Calcium is required by just about every cell in the human body and is vital in helping the immune system destroy a virus or infection.