by Helen Borel,RN,MFA,PhD My Description of ME ME symptoms vary in kind and severity levels depending on the length (months/years/decades) of cytokine overkill ( self-toxification of encephalon and myelin sheath ) flooding the victim's body. ME recurs in relapses with shorter & shorter remissions if untreated SYMPTOMATICALLY. After a More than a Quarter Century, Nothing has Changed about Etiologies, Diagnostics, Therapies...EXCEPT MANY MILLIONS MORE ME VICTIMS ARE SUFFERING WORLDWIDE 25 Yrs ago, I wrote a definitive work on ME , "Living With and Recovering from CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: Debilitating Immunopathic Relapsing Encephalomyelitis (DIRE)" It is a dire disease. That's why I invented that acronym for it. And my ME description is more inclusive because it adds the elements of immune system pathology , plus the fact that this is a relapsing disease with periods of remission. Although the ME patient is hit suddenly by relapses, exacerbation...