Report: Specialist services are vital to help people with ME/CFS | Letter

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Readers respond to George Monbiot’s article about how those with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, have been failed by the health system George Monbiot ( Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed, 24 September ) is right about one important thing: people with severe ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome) deserve much better care than many have received. The report also notes that But two different questions are being conflated: how patients have been treated, and what the evidence tells us about the causes and treatment of ME/CFS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence no longer recommends the old form of graded exercise therapy, in which activity was increased as reported by a predetermined schedule regardless of symptoms.

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