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Actually the new bullshit name is CFS, the original was ME. ME has a long history, appearing worldwide in epidemic and endemic forms. A 1955 outbreak in London resulted in what Dr. A. Melvin Ramsay described it as an infectious ​neuromuscular illness and formally used the term “myalgic encephalomyelitis.” Disregarding this, the CDC broadly redefined the disease and renamed it the marginalizing name chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in response to 1985 cluster outbreaks of the disease in Incline Village, Nevada and Lyndonville, New York. This redefinition resulted in three decades of confused research findings rather than answers to the cause and treatment of this disease. In addition, the undignified name and poor criteria causes stigmatization and marginalization of patients. see http://www.name-us.org/DefintionsPages/DefRamsay.htm

What do you mean by being bedridden? Are you paralyzed?

Does that mean for the severe, they cannot turn over in bed or lift up their arm? Does their skin have sensation or is it numb?