MD with ME

Until the last post on VIP , I have not posted anything here for a long time. I apologize for that, but my health has been so poor it is very difficult to work on blog posts, even for short periods of time. That being said, I would like to post more material here, but will probably need to keep the posts pretty short. Most of my ideas are things that are pretty involved or complicated and would therefore take a lot of time for me to do. If any of you have suggestions of things that you would be interested in reading about from my perspective as a doctor with disabling ME, please let me know in the comments sections below. Thank you!

This is a post about a medication that very few people have tried. I thought I would share my experience so far. As always, if you have questions or anything to say regarding VIP I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments. What is VIP? Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is something that is produced by the body that has a broad range of actions that could potentially benefit ME patients. It does all kinds of things, effecting the GI, cardiovascular, CNS, endocrine, and immune systems at least. I am not going to go into great detail regarding its actions at this point because its so complicated. Let me go ahead and say that no one would expect this to be a cure - its purpose would be to provide symptomatic relief. VIP was recently touted as a successful treatment for CIRS-WDB patients in a paper by Dr. Shoemaker, a mold expert, in a small group of 20 patients.  There are some problems with his paper in my opinion. For example, the fact that he tells us there were thr...