Introduction I try to make my newsletters a little fun to read. But this one is full of important stuff, so it's pretty dry and factual. Since then much of my spare time has been devoted to analyzing data and writing the draft of an article about the natural course of CFS in adults. This came out of a work initiated and carried on for six years by Mette Marie Andersen MD and her associate Henrik Permin MD at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Substantial improvement is uncommon.
Patients may get better in some ways while worsening in others. Allergies and some aspects of cognition tend to worsen. Emotional adjustment often improves independently of the course of the illness. In other words, we found what most adult CFS patients already know, that the illness tends to fluctuate without really changing. There with four 15 minute presentations on this topic.