'I've got the bones of a 100-year-old': 22-year-old with severe ME could break a rib by just sitting up too fast

• Jessica Taylor developed ME when she was just 14 years old
• She was so ill she had to be fed through a tube for two years and could not speak for 18 months - was unable to move anything other than her head
• As she has been in bed for so long, she has developed osteoporosis
• This means she could break her back or hip just by sitting up too fast
• She is now at home but has to have 24-hour a day care, can't leave her room and needs a hoist to move her from her bed to a chair
• She has launched a charity called Share A Star from her bed - aims to make sick children feel special and sends them packages of goodies in hospital
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By EMMA INNES PUBLISHED: 09:45 GMT, 25 December 2013: L

A 22-year-old former netball captain says she ‘lost everything’ when severe ME caused her to be bedridden and to develop the 'bones of a 100-year-old'.

Jessica Taylor, from Rochester, Kent, spent four continuous years in hospital and has not left her bed for seven years.

While she was in hospital, she was so ill she couldn't recognise her family, had to be tube-fed and was unable to move anything other than her head.

As she has been in bed for so long, Jessica has now developed severe osteoporosis and was told by doctors that she has ‘the bones of an 100-year-old’.

She remains so weak she is barely able to sit up and just moving from her bed to a chair requires the use of a hoist.

Jessica told MailOnline: ‘My life is a world of one room. The ME caused me to lose everything in the end.

‘I’ve got a fight on my hands and I believe I am going to get better.’

Jessica first fell ill when she was 14.

She suffered a bout of the flu which she never recovered from and, despite trying to push herself, her health rapidly deteriorated and within nine months she was bedridden.

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Immune Abnormalities in Patients Meeting New Diagnostic Criteria for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Immune Abnormalities in Patients Meeting New Diagnostic Criteria for
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Brenu EW1,2*, Johnston S1,2, Hardcastle SL1,2, Huth TK1,2, Fuller K1,2, Ramos SB1,2, Staines DR2,3 and Marshall-Gradisnik SM1,2
1School of Medical Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
2The National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Diseases, Griffith Health Institute, Queensland, Australia
3Queensland Health, Gold Coast Public Health Unit, Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Abstract
Background: Immunological abnormalities have been identified in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis patients fulfilling the 1994 Centers for Disease Control diagnostic criteria. Significant developments have been made to diagnostic criteria, but potential immunological markers have not been assessed in patients fulfilling these latest clinical requirements. Therefore, this study evaluated immunological parameters in patients that also fulfill the latest diagnostic criteria available known as the International Consensus Criteria.
Methods: The Immunological investigations including Natural Killer cell activity and phenotyping studies for
dendritic cells, neutrophils, B cells and regulatory T cells were performed on whole blood samples collected from all participants using flow cytometric protocols. The physical functioning of all participants was also evaluated using scores from the Short Form Health Survey, and the World Health Organization Disability Adjustment Schedule.
Results were compared according 1994 Centers of Disease Control and Prevention defined patients, and
International Consensus Criteria defined patients, and healthy controls.
Results: Natural killer cell activity was consistently and significantly decreased, and regulatory T cells were
significantly increased in both patient groups compared to healthy controls. Differences were found in human
neutraphil antigens and expression of natural killer cell receptors between patient groups. Highly significant
correlations were also found between physical status and some immune parameters in International Consensus
Criteria defined patients.
Conclusion: This preliminary investigation on different diagnostic criteria suggests that the International
Consensus Criteria may be more effective a detecting salient differences in the immune system. Read more>>

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