MEDICAL MATTERS

  • Medical Matters features questions asked by Members of the ME Association on health-related topics.
  • Dr Charles Shepherd and the ME Association's other advisers answer these questions by sharing their expert knowledge.
  • Medical Matters is based on the popular ‘Ask the Doctor’ series in ME Essential magazine.
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Questions in the Category: SNOMED-CT

Vaccinations: Flu (Influenza) 2023-24

ME Essential Autumn 2023

Can you help me reach an informed decision about the 2023-24 Flu vaccination?

Vaccinations: Autumn Covid Booster 2023

ME Essential Autumn 2023

Can you help me reach an informed decision about the 2023 Autumn Covid Booster vaccination?

Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Encephalopathy, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Long Covid

ME Essential Winter 2022

Please can you define what PVFS, ME/CFS, and Long Covid mean. I am having difficulty determining if they are the same disease or different. Thank you!

Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue

ME Essential Summer 2019

What is the difference between chronic fatigue and ME/CFS? A friend of mine has been told by her doctor that she has something called idiopathic chronic fatigue. But I know that she has very similar symptoms to ME/CFS.

Nomenclature: ME/CFS

ME Essential Autumn 2018

Is there a simple reason why the ME Association also uses the term myalgic encephalopathy instead of myalgic encephalomyelitis?

Charles Shepherd

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