My wife just pointed me to this story which I really hope is true!
ca.news.yahoo.com
ME/CFS is the primary illness I have suffered from for over 25 years now and sufferers were always told you have to live with it the best way you can because there is no cure and no effective treatment (other than for some of the symptoms). I really hope this is the break-through millions of people have been hoping for!
In the early days I was regularly told "It's all in your head" or "You're faking all this time off, you're not that sick!" My last employer actually fired me from a position that only I was able to perform as I was the only one of over 1,500 employees that could use a particular piece of customer mandated software. Their excuse was there wasn't enough work to keep me busy but one of the Managing Directors (a son of the owner) was over-heard telling my direct Manager that if I was taking so much time off work due to illness "You should fire him because he's no use to us!". Big mistake! I took the Company to the Ontario Court of Human Rights for wrongful dismissal and after one day of arbitration the Company settled out of court for a five figure sum! The kicker was that the medical profession thought that my illness was actually triggered by the severely contaminated HVAC ducts that fed cold/warm air directly over my desk! The repeated infections with a retrovirus is what they believe was the trigger for my ME/CFS disaster.
UK scientists find genes linked with chronic fatigue syndrome
(Reuters) -Researchers at the University of Edinburgh said on Wednesday they have discovered differences in the DNA of people with chronic fatigue syndrome that should help dispel the notion that the debilitating condition is psychological or driven by laziness. Their study found eight areas...
ME/CFS is the primary illness I have suffered from for over 25 years now and sufferers were always told you have to live with it the best way you can because there is no cure and no effective treatment (other than for some of the symptoms). I really hope this is the break-through millions of people have been hoping for!
In the early days I was regularly told "It's all in your head" or "You're faking all this time off, you're not that sick!" My last employer actually fired me from a position that only I was able to perform as I was the only one of over 1,500 employees that could use a particular piece of customer mandated software. Their excuse was there wasn't enough work to keep me busy but one of the Managing Directors (a son of the owner) was over-heard telling my direct Manager that if I was taking so much time off work due to illness "You should fire him because he's no use to us!". Big mistake! I took the Company to the Ontario Court of Human Rights for wrongful dismissal and after one day of arbitration the Company settled out of court for a five figure sum! The kicker was that the medical profession thought that my illness was actually triggered by the severely contaminated HVAC ducts that fed cold/warm air directly over my desk! The repeated infections with a retrovirus is what they believe was the trigger for my ME/CFS disaster.