Thanks Ann This is great news for chronic fatigue sufferers.
Of coarse everyone knows exercise is a good thing. But if you can't get out of bed due to crushing debilitating pain and fatigue, then it can't be considered part of the equation. Duh !
Also, by taking it out of the mental health realm and putting it in the physical disorder realm means they finally graduated to the 21st century.
Finally.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Will they never get the connection to Lyme and other tick-borne illnesses?
Posted by duncan (Member # 46242) on :
Just wanted to chime in that, yes, the Cochrane temporary withdrawal of support for GET/CBT for ME/CFS patients is huge.
Of course, CFS does not equate to chronic fatigue - the CFS label is basically a misnomer applied to mylagic Encephalomyeltis ie, ME. Lyme people will know of Lyme Encephalomyelitis.
It is way overdue that everyone knew ME/CFS has long ago been demonstrated not to belong in the mental health realm, that it was a physical disorder with many many documented biologic abnormalities.
Incidentally, with ME/CFS many types of exercise - in fact, exertion in general - can actually be bad for the ME/CFS patient.
You can imagine the issues this might present for those patients diagnosed with both Lyme and ME/CFS, having to negotiate that exercise tug of war.