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Podcast: It Happened To Me: A Rare Disease and Medical Challenges Podcast
Episode: #66 Not Just Fatigue: Global Advocating for ME/CFS from Bed
Description: In this deeply moving episode of It Happened To Me, we sit down with Elizabeth Ansell, founder of #NotJustFatigue, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to raising awareness about myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). This is a condition that is vastly under diagnosed, possibly 90% which would mean it may affect up to 9 million people.Â
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Elizabeth’s life changed dramatically as a young adult when she developed ME/CFS—a complex, debilitating condition often triggered by infection. Since 2016, she has been bed-bound, living with severe fatigue, cognitive impairment, and post-exertional malaise. Yet, from her bed, she has be...