Re: Teitelbaum Study - Some Observations

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

I read Dr Teitelbaum's book " From Fatigued to Fantastic! " several

years ago. After mulling it over, I've come to the conclusion that his

protocol is for people with " chronic fatigue " , not for " chronic

fatigue syndrome " . He has a lot of common sense suggestions for

reducing run-of-the-mill fatigue (which is not to say normal fatigue

can't be debilitating), but which may not be as useful for people with

the post-exertional malaise, high cytokines type of profile like mine

and many with CFS.

Hm. I have the feeling there was something else I was going to say,

but brain fog has rolled in. Oh well. That's my two cents' worth,

anyhow.

Marcia on

in Salem, Massachusetts

On Apr 24, 2011, at 12:02 PM, andrew_cfs wrote:

> I read Teitelbaum's study of his protocol. A couple observations.

>

> 1. It is not a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome study, despite what he says.

> It's a Fibromyalgia study. What he says in the study is that the

> Fibromyalgia patients also had some CFS symptoms. That means

> nothing. It is the nature of Fibromyalgia to overlap symptoms with

> CFS. But that doesn't mean these patients would have qualified in

> the strictest sense.

>

> 2. A major part of the protocol is improving sleep. He has quite a

> list of pharmaceutical sleep aids and suggestions for how to use

> them. The protocol even goes so far as requiring that the sleep be

> fixed.

>

> So why do I mention the sleep thing. I believe that anyone who goes

> from shattered sleep to fairly decent sleep will say they feel much

> better. So for all we know, this study could have been done using

> only sleep-fixing part of the protocol and the outcome would have

> been the same. Because the basis by which they determine success is

> whether the person says he/she feels much better.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Teitelbaum treats people with ME, CFS, general chronic fatigue and

fibromyalgia. He has a very broad range of options he selects from.

[Guest guest]

Just to be clear, I was commenting only on his study, which is called: Effective

Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia—A Randomized,

Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Intent-To-Treat Study E. Teitelbaum;

Barbara Bird; M. Greenfield; Alan Weiss; Larry Muenz; Laurie Gould.

Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Vol. 8(2) 2001