myalgic

It sounds like she had a serious case of myalgic encephalomyelitis brought on by Covid.

It is virtually indistinguishable from the condition long known in the medical lexicon as post-infectious syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

I have two friends with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (aka chronic fatigue) at life-ruining levels, likely from the 2009 swine flu.

Multi-‘omics of host-microbiome interactions in short- and long-term Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).

I know two people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis from the 2009 flu epidemic and it's nasty.

I have spent the last week with Claude Code, instructing it to find all it can about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).

* Chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis, for those not familiar with the abbreviations.

>Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for abnormalities in the brain and immune systems of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).

See, for example, Morgellons or Chronic Fatigue or Myalgic Encephalitis or MMR vaccinations where people have spent years doing the research and have arrived at very wrong conclusions and want useless, or harmful, medical interventions.

I have a friend who has Myalgic Encephalomyelitis aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which has destroyed her life, turning the most energetic person I knew into someone who cannot walk more than a block a day.

There's a push to call CFS "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis".

The same type of phenomenon happened with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, now identified as "Myalgic encephalomyelitis" where patients were long disregarded as simply having psychological problems, and the same with many auto-immune disorders.

I'll take the abbreviation over "myalgic encephalomyelitis"!

As a side note there is the following study CFS/me which might be of interest "We aim to find genetic causes of why people become ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) with our ground-breaking research.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS for short, has been affecting people for a long time.

The UK has had a multi-year struggle for people with ME/CFS, (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome).

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) might be what you're thinking, although I think generally it's described as chronic _fatigue_ rather than laziness.