Amanda Twinam’s journey to understand her decades-long fatigue began with a breast cancer diagnosis at age 28. Twinam underwent a mastectomy before enduring chemotherapy. The medicines made her sick and triggered seizures, which eventually brought her to a rheumatologist.
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She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough.
Her dogged efforts lead to a new scientific discovery that may help others with long covid and other chronically fatiguing illnesses
By Brian Vastag
September 17, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT