ME/CFS: those patients who are given a period of enforced rest from the onset have the best prognosis

By National Alliance for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis:

by A. Melvin Ramsay M.D., Hon Consultant Physician, Infectious Diseases Dept., Royal Free Hospital (Pub. 1986)

The degree of physical incapacity varies greatly, but the dominant clinical feature of profound fatigue is directly related to the length of time the patient persists in physical effort after its onset;

put in another way, those patients who are given a period of enforced rest from the onset have the best prognosis.... Read more>>