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What is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis? - Byron Hyde, MD

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Unfortunately, the majority of physicians in the UK, Europe and North America, not to mention the rest of the world, have a poor and sometimes distorted idea of what Myalgic Encephalomyelitis represents. One of the several fallacies is that M.E. is just another name for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). It is not and never has been. M.E. is a biphasic epidemic and sporadic enteroviral infectious disease. Up to 1955 and the introduction of Jonas Salk’s polio immunization M.E. tended to occur in the same location and at the same time as polio epidemics. In epidemic form, both Polio and M.E. tend to peak in the north temperate hemisphere during the period of July to November, with a last small blip around Christmas when families tend to get together.

CFS is a syndrome based upon a series of symptoms that are common to hundreds of different, often serious diseases and diagnostic of none. CFS can also represent multiple different pathologies or diseases in the same person. At times, CFS may be related to undiagnosed genetic illnesses. Many physicians assume patients with multiple symptoms and no easily observable pathologies are actually hysterical, anxiety neurosis or depressive patients. They employ the term CFS in place of making the unwelcome diagnosis of hysteria or psychiatric disease. The term CFS should not be utilized, as in the minds of most physicians it is a disparaging term, and in the minds of many physicians, a term belittling to the patient.

Understanding M.E. is relatively simple. However, understanding M.E. was much simpler sixty years ago. Prior to 1954, if the patient fell ill with M.E. their illness would have been called: Missed Polio.

Missed polio was a diagnosis given prior to 1955, when the patients fell ill during a Poliomyelitis epidemic and were left disabled, weak, often in pain and with cognitive difficulties, but were not paralyzed.

The term Myalgic Encephalomyelitis was a name developed to describe the disabling chronic injury sustained by the nurses and physicians of the Royal Free Hospital in London England in 1955. This epidemic was part of the combined epidemic of paralytic and missed poliomyelitis which struck across England and London that year. This was also the same year that the first major successful paralytic polio immunization, the incredibly effective Jonah Salk immunization, began to be distributed in the United States of America.

The Salk immunization solved the problem of flaccid paralysis and death caused by the three known polioviruses but in 1955 Salk and colleagues didn’t realize there were some hundred other dangerous enteroviruses which existed but had not yet been discovered. These missing links to the puzzle of acute and chronic enterovirus illness were not included in these Salk and later Sabin polio immunizations. Unknown to them, some of these other dangerous enteroviruses also caused flaccid paralysis and several caused what they referred to as missed polio, what we know since the 1950s as myalgic encephalomyelitis. Many of these other disease causing enteroviruses are very similar in genetic structure to the then known polio-enteroviruses. Many differ, one from the other, by less than 5% of their genomic (genetic blueprint) structure. There are at least six or more enteroviruses causing paralytic or flaccid paralysis and I assume that one day they will all be included in the polio immunization. These relatively new enteroviruses appear to be on the ascendant.

In addition to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a partial list of enteroviral provoked diseases/disorders includes:

1. Anterior Poliomyelitis
2. Poliomyelitis-like Syndrome (Non-poliovirus Flaccid Paralysis) *
3. Meningoencephalitis *
4. Limbic Encephalitis *
5. Rhombencephalitis/Brainstem Encephalitis *
6. Dysautonomia * / PoTS *
7. Raynaud's Syndrome *
8. Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)
9. Aseptic Meningitis *
10. Epidemic Pleurodynia (also known as "Bornholm Disease", Devil’s Grip or Epidemic Myalgia) *
11. Labyrinthitis and Vestibular Neuritis (also known as Epidemic Vertigo) *
12. Primary Thyroid Failure, and Thyroid Cancer *
13. Acute Pancreatitis and Type 1 Diabetes *
14. Pernicious Anemia and B12 Deficiency *
15. Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia *
16. Gastroinstential Symptoms: Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease (HFMD) *, Diarrhea and Vomiting (D&V) *, Gastroenteritis *, Gastritis *, Gastroparesis *, Enterocolitis *, Paralytic Ileus *, Nausea *, Intestinal Dysmotility *, Non-Cytolytic Persistent Gastrointestinal *, or Persistent CNS Infection *
17. Viral Pneumonia *
18. Pleurisy *
19. Cranial Nerve Palsies (e.g. Bulbar Palsy, Facial Palsy) *
20. Orthostatic Intolerance and Low Blood Pressure - Neurally Mediated Hypotension *, Orthostatic Hypotension *
21. Viral Pneumonia, and Gastroenteritis (Necrotizing Enterocolitis - NEC) viral deaths in the new-born
22. Neonatal Sepsis
23. Haemorrhagic Conjunctivitis (Apollo Disease)
24. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) - Classic Landry's Ascending Paralysis - Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP) - Axonal Subtypes - AMAN (Acute Motor Axonal Neuropathy) or AMSAN (Acute Motor and Sensory Axonal Neuropathy) *
25. Small Fiber Polyneuropathy (SFPN) *
26. Neuralgic Amyotrophy (NA) (also known as Parsonage–Turner Syndrome or Acute Brachial Neuritis) *
27. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) - Miller Fisher Syndrome - Landry's Descending Paralysis *
28. Myoclonic Jerks *, Fasciculations *, Muscle Spasm *
29. Photophobia *, Low of Accomodation *, Nystagmus *
30. Hyperacusis *, Deafness *, Tinnitus *
31. Infective/Acute Viral Myositis mimicking Polymyositis *, and Post-Exertional Myalgia *
32. Arthralgia *
33. Dermatomyositis *
34. Reactive Arthritis (ReA) *, Seronegative Post-viral Polyarthritis, can look like Spondyloarthritis * in HLA-B27–positive patients
35. "Recurrent" Lymphadenopathy *
36. Mesenteric Lymphadenitis *
37. Central Nervous System Exhaustion *
38. Central Fatigue *
39. "Post-Exertional" Muscle Fatigability followed by Motor Weakness *
40. Orthitis/Prostatism *
41. Post-Infectious Neuralgia - Radiculitis *, or Peripheral Nerve Inflammation * (e.g. patients may develop Radicular Leg Pain, Facial Neuralgia, or post-viral neuropathic pain after Enteroviral CNS infection)
42. Complex Pain Syndromes - Fibromyalgia *, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome II *
43. Dystonia *
44. Paresis *
45. Paraplegia *
46. Muscle Wasting *
47. Costochondritis *, Tietze Syndrome *
48. "Acute Onset" Encephalitic Seizures *
49. Post-viral Epilepsy*