FMS & CFS -- conspiracy theory, anyone?

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" Chronic fatigue syndrome is more accurately called myalgic

encephalomyelitis. The chronic fatigue syndrome nomenclature was

given by the US National Institutes of Health because it wanted to

downgrade and belittle the disease.

An MRI scan of the brain of a teenage girl with chronic fatigue

syndrome displayed a great many scars or punctate lesions in the left

frontal lobe area where portions of the brain had literally dissolved

and been replaced by scar tissue. This caused cognitive impairment,

memory impairment, etc. And what was the cause of the scarring? The

mycoplasma. So there is very concrete physical evidence of these

tragic diseases, even though doctors continue to say they don't know

where it comes from or what they can do about it.

" Many people with chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalo-

myelitis and fibromyalgia who apply to the Canada Pensions Plan

Review Tribunal will be turned down because they cannot prove that

they are ill. During 1999 I conducted several appeals to Canada

Pensions and the Workers Compensation Board (WCB, now the Workplace

Safety and Insurance Board) on behalf of people who have been turned

down. I provided documented evidence of these illnesses, and these

people were all granted their pensions on the basis of the evidence

that I provided.

In March 1999, for example, I appealed to the WCB on behalf of a lady

with fibromyalgia who had been denied her pension back in 1993. The

vice-chairman of the board came to Sudbury to hear the appeal, and I

showed him a number of documents which proved that this lady was

physically ill with fibromyalgia. It was a disease that caused

physical damage, and the disease agent was a mycoplasma. The guy

listened for three hours, and then he said to me: " Mr , how is

it I have never heard of any of this before? I said: " We brought a

top authority in this area into Sudbury to speak on this subject and

not a single solitary doctor came to that presentation. "

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the rest of this article, which answers virtually every question

we've ever had about our disease, can be found at

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/mycoplasma.html