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Pacing and Houseguests
For several years, annual visits from relatives resulted in long relapses. Then Rose tried pacing and got a different result.
Limits, Logging and Better Health
How Elena Rosen used experimentation and record keeping to trigger improvement from 25% of normal to 98%.
Pacing by Numbers: Using Your Heart Rate To Stay Inside the Energy Envelope
How to control symptoms by staying within your anaerobic threshold.
Key 4: Nurture Yourself with Pre-Emptive Rest
Pre-emptive rest is a simple technique that can help reduce symptoms and make life more stable.
The Art of Letting Go
Guest author Lisa Lorden Myers' thoughts on how to tailor New Year's resolutions for CFS and FM.
Using Multiple Coping Strategies to Manage Stress
How one person reduced stress.
CFS, FM and Dating: A Personal Story
How one person found love while bed/couch bound.
Learning to Manage Stress
How one person developed an array of five strategies to reduce stress.
Where Should I Focus To Get Better?
Our suggestions of five key areas.
Medical Help and Self-Help
Combining medical treatments and self-management
Assertiveness: A Tool for Reducing Symptoms
How your style of communication affects symptoms.
Devices to Stretch Your Energy Envelope
Using devices to get more done and make life easier.
Planning for Relapses
Using planning to reduce the frequency and severity of setbacks.
Planning for Vacations & Other Special Events
Three strategies for enjoying special events while avoiding a relapse.
Planning for Depression
Everyone has times when they feel unhappy or sad. We can recognize that these feelings are likely to occur and plan how to respond.
Making Realistic Daily & Weekly Plans
How to gain predictability and control through planning.
What Are the Most Important Things to Remember about ME/CFS/FM?
Ideas from Dr. Charles Lapp, well-known CFS/FM physician and director emeritus of the Hunter-Hopkins Center in Charlotte.
Exercising Safely Using Nano Steps
After many failures, one person finds a successful approach to exercise using two simple principles.
Dr. Lapp's Surgery Recommendations
Thoughts from Dr. Charles Lapp, well-known CFS/FM physician and director of the Hunter-Hopkins Center in Charlotte.
Dancing with the Dragon
How Beatrice Desper used pacing, exercise and support to improve from 10% of normal to 50% and beyond.
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