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RES,MED WHAT IS CFS? (fwd)
K. Weber (kweber@efn.org)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:03:58 -0800
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:38:42 -0800
From: "K. Weber" <kweber@efn.org>
Newsgroups: bionet.virology, bionet.parasitology, bionet.microbiology,
bionet.immunology
Subject: RES,MED WHAT IS CFS?
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:31:19 -0800
From: "K. Weber" <kweber@efn.org>
To: "Jonathan S. Nash" <jnash@qis.net>
Newsgroups: alt.med.cfs, alt.med.cfs.open, alt.med.fibromyalgia
Subject: Re: RES,MED, THE BUBBLEGUM CONUNDRUM AND M.E./CFIDS/FM MORTALITY
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Jonathan S. Nash wrote:
> Hi. What is CFS ??
> Thank you..
>
IN 500 words or less. It is a syndrome of complex viral etiology and a
genetic basis, though probably a non-Mendelian one. It is not known to
what extent it is a new disease. According to one San Francisco Public
Health epidemiologist I talked to. It tends to come in waves, major
epidemics in the United States were in the 30's and late 50's to early
60's. The earlier epidemic was better recorded though that does not mean
it was necessarily larger. The disease was well recorded by Freud, and
that depressed reporting of it as a physical disease in the late 50's when
Freud was at his heyday in the U.S. It is no fun to have. And can progress
to involve severe disability and possibly death, though deaths which can
occur earlier in illness are more often noticed. It is very very painful,
and that has always resulted in many volitional deaths, particularly when
it appears that the more grave paralysis sometimes associated with it is
approaching.
MRI's sometimes look as though advanced patients had early
multiple sclerosis, and many severely disabled people with the disease may
eventually accumulate that diagnosis. This is not to their advantage,
since MS is not painful and treatment for MS can make the disease worse or
produce grueling physical suffering. As a disease outside the United
States, it is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
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