“Welcome to the club! #Brainstem abnormalities now join the list of other issues ( #EBVReactivation, #CPET abnormalities, small fiber #neuropathy, #dysautonomia, low #cortisol, symptoms, etc.) that are linking #MECFS and #LongCovid together ever more tightly.”

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #pwME #Fibromyalgia #pwFM #

https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/04/20/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-long-covid-brainstem/

ME/CFS and Long COVID Meet Again - At the Brainstem - Health Rising

Lots of areas of the brain (prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, insula, amygdala, motor cortex, and more) have been implicated in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), but somehow it fits that the most difficult-to-reach and hard-to-study part of the brain – the brainstem – might just be the cat’s meow. As […]

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