• Battery Alert: Surviving Festivals, Flare Ups, and Post Exertional Malaise

  • Oct 9 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
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Battery Alert: Surviving Festivals, Flare Ups, and Post Exertional Malaise

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  • Hello my chickadees! In this episode of That Chronic Thing, we dive into the internal battery metaphor, a common way to explain energy depletion in ME/CFS. I share my experience attending a festival with my faulty battery and the onset of post-exertional malaise (PEM) that followed. We’ll discuss what PEM is, strategies to avoid it, and how to manage when it hits. Plus, I’ll provide practical tips from personal experience and the Open Medicine Foundation’s PEM Avoidance Toolkit to help navigate daily life with ME/CFS.

    Mentioned:
    → Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS from Bateman Horne Center
    → ME / CFS Patient: Post Exertional Malaise Avoidance Toolkit from Open Med Foundation

    Information shared in this podcast is not medical advice. Please discuss your health with a doctor.

    Stay in touch with me, Cathy, at @indoorcathy on Instagram. Follow the show on your fave podcast app to be notified of new episodes.


    "Glitter Blast" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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