We are excited to announce a new page on our website! Pacing is one of the key management strategies for ME/CFS. Pacing Resources is a collection of high quality resources that support pacing education for people living with ME/CFS. This page lists educational materials such as, guides, tool suggestions and videos. We also encourage health care providers to learn more about pacing. We have highlighted pacing management on our Symptom management and referral (for health car

We have found two new helpful resources to share this week: 1) ME/CFS Survival Guidebook: The Art of Living with ME/CFS 2) Facets of ME: A launch of a new education series of the multiple aspects of living and managing ME/CFS 1) ME/CFS Crash Survival Guidebook: The Art of Living with ME/CFS The guidebook can be viewed online, downloaded, or printed – in color or black and white. This guidebook is designed for patients, for those allies supporting patients and for medical p

On November 29, 2021, we hosted a webinar for our members. Great to see so many of you together with us! This session presented findings of our preliminary project examining the unmet needs of British Columbians living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Full, short and graphic reports of this project: ME in BC: How the healthcare system for ME impacts clinicians and patients , is available at: Our research | MEFM SOCIETY OF BC . Watch the recording of this presentation belo

Congratulations to members of the ME/FM Society of BC's Research Committee, who had two poster presentations accepted at the International Association for CFS/ME conference. The conference was hosted virtually August 19 - 21, 2021. Thank you again to the patients and clinicians who participated in this project!

We express our gratitude to ICanCME Research Network for sharing this informative Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy episode with us. Episode description: More than 10 million people across the world are living with the long-term consequences of COVID-19. But the crushing fatigue experienced by so many with long COVID—the postexertion malaise—is not new. People have lived with postviral illness and postexertion malaise, and they've faced stigma and harm for d

​ A 1-hour CIHR-IMHA webinar discusses: 1) Diagnosis and Management of ME, 2) Connection between ME and Long COVID, 3) Current and Upcoming Research ​ Dr. Muirhead is a surgeon, researcher, medical educator, Oxford graduate and patient from the UK. She is an Internationally recognized expert on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and a member of the ICanCME's Working Group on Trainee Development/Medical Education.

Research has shown that one of the possible initial triggers of M.E. could be a viral illness. The same applies to COVID-19 “long-haulers”.

Dr Luis Nacul's video message to our British Columbia community for the May 30 Millions Missing BC 2020 online rally.

This post is updated as new resources are shared with us. Book your Covid-19 vaccine https://www2.gov.bc.ca/getvaccinated.html With the rising threat of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the aggressive new measures taken here in Canada to contain the outbreak, we are thinking of our community of British Columbians living with ME and FM. It's hard enough to cope with living with a complex chronic disease. The challenges become more acute during a pandemic that targets the im

Part 2 of Howard Searle's interview of Dr. Luis Nacul, Medical Director, Women's Hospital Complex Chronic Diseases Program.

Last month, ME/FM Society of BC volunteer, Howard Searle , made his way to Vancouver to meet with Dr. Luis Nacul , Medical Director of BC Women’s Hospital Complex Chronic Diseases Program (CCDP), at his apartment. Howard was there to interview Dr. Nacul for an article for our Society’s 2019 December fundraiser . Howard was a registered ER nurse in his life before ME. Like all of us, he was impatiently waiting for the new Medical Director to arrive in Vancouver and take up th

More than 77,000 British Columbians live with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Their needs are vastly undermet.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) , also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), is a multisystem disorder that affects the brain, the autonomic nervous system, the cardiovascular system, the gastrointestinal system, and the immune system. It is estimated that this disease affects approximately 3 million Americans and 580,000 Canadians . Dr. David Kaufman, Internal Medicine physician at the Center for Complex Diseases Mountain View, California, and former Medical Director of

WHEN: Sunday, September @ 2:15PM (PST) - After the Society's AGM WHERE: In person - Chan Education Centre & Auditorium BC Children's Hospital's Research Institute Entrance #18, 938 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver Online - the presentation will be available live online Video recording will be available on our site at a later date. _____________ VIEW VIDEO ______________ Presenter - Laura Track Laura Track is an experienced human rig