Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / M.E. is a debilitating neurological condition. It affects physical, cognitive, sensory and digestive capabilities making everyday mundane tasks such as getting dressed through to attending school or work tremendously challenging, if not impossible.
Consultants can offer no extensive diagnosis ( many people remain undiagnosed) or in turn medical prescriptions to cure or simply abate symptoms - sufferers simply manage their lives as best as possible, rest and wait to hopefully get better.
Invest in ME Research is an independent UK charity finding, funding and facilitating a strategy of biomedical research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS).The charity is run by volunteers - patients or parents of children with ME - with no paid staff.Overheads are kept to a minimum and all funds raised to go to promoting education of, and funding for biomedical research into, ME.Our efforts are focused on setting up a UK Centre of Excellence for ME which will provide proper examinations, diagnosis and in time treatment(s)/cure(s).
