Below are a couple of images which give a brief summary of what ME is (click on the images to enlarge them). Please read them even if you think you already know about ME, as it is a widely misunderstood disease:
If you want to know more, I would highly recommend these sites:
- The Hummingbirds' Foundation for ME: www.hfme.org and the sister site Health, Healing and Hummingbirds: www.hhhummingbirds.com
- An excellent information chart, including explaining the difference between ME, CFS, and SEID: http://arainbowatnight.com/2015/05/12/chart/
- Stonebird: www.stonebird.co.uk
- Voices from the Shadows: http://voicesfromtheshadowsfilm.co.uk (please watch the 3 minute trailer for the Voices From The Shadows film: http://voicesfromtheshadowsfilm.co.uk/2011/trailer)
- The 25% Group, a charity which supports sufferers of Severe ME: http://25megroup.org/home.html
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria: www.investinme.org/Documents/Guidelines/Myalgic%20Encephalomyelitis%20International%20Consensus%20Primer%20-2012-11-26.pdf
- A summary of the history of ME, including how it became conflated with CFS and why that is a problem: http://arainbowatnight.com/2015/03/14/the-parts-of-me-00/
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