What is ME/CFS?
The NICE guideline defines ME/CFS as:
“a complex, chronic medical condition affecting multiple body systems” Read more
The World Health Organisation has classified ME since 1969 as:
“a neurological disease – a disorder of the nervous system that affects the brain, spinal cord, and nerves” Read more
Researchers and clinicians have also described it as:
“An energy production impairment condition”
“a chronic, complex, neuroimmune disease “
“a complex, acquired multi-systemic disease”
ME = Myalgic Encelphalomyelitis – the original name
CFS = Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – a name patients never liked
ME/CFS = a compromise recommended by NICE
ME = the term patients prefer, until a better one is found