How are we going to get that evidence?
You won't find many volunteers to test out the theory.
We know that Whitney needs Ativan to survive trips to hospital, for changing his PEGJ and it's unlikely to be as far away.
Others, some even with moderate ME find travelling any distance in a car...
People who know about s/vs ME (such as 25%) were involved in the working group and workshops for the Living with ME stream, and submitted very relevant material.
Have no idea what the final plan will include.
Reminder to Sonya, that the clinics and therefore BACME members, only ever see people at the milder end of the spectrum.
This was confirmed by Dr Phil Hammond in a workshop for the JLA PSP.
The workshops included a wide range of stakeholders and were convened to select in order, the ten most...
Another thing to raise with Sonya, which I think she is already involved with, is linking up with Long Covid organisations, to combat the rehab/BPS paradigm.
Does she have any contacts who might be open to sharing the Current Cochrane fiasco with the LC groups?
Re The Delivery PLan
It would be good to know if anyone with lived experience of ME was involved in reviewing or analysing the large number of reponses to the Interim Delivery Plan. Or even the DHSC staff who were co-ordinating and assisting the running of the "Attitudes and Education" and...
Repeating this ME Action survey or similar would be excellent. (Sian was involved)
It was prepared very quickly and only ran for a couple of weeks, due to NICE time constraints.
It is imperative that a survey such as this is run by a patient centred charity, though BACME can be asked to promote...
Thanks John and Lucibee.
This version contains No 4, which was absent from Dave T's and other online versions:
"4 CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEATH
Maeve Boothby was 27 at the time of her death. She was diagnosed with ME at Frenchay hospital in 2011 and in 2019 it became so severe that she was...
My mother in law died of this, so it would be good news for my daughter. Also my sister in law, her daughter and grand daughter.
Edited to clarify, hopefully
Worrying to see Dr Terry Segal of the notorious UCLH paediatric/adolescent clinic.
Also Joanne Bond Kendall, who was physio in Bath and on the NICE GDL C'ttee and was one of those who resigned.
Absolutely, there are physiological limitations, that cannot be remedied by raising her up 30 degrees a couple of times over the weekend (GET for a very severely affected person) or by "making her feel better if her hair is washed or she can suck on a bit of toothpaste.
Ideas based on normal...
Plus, even though we don't know the physiology we know that, as people deteriorate they have less energy/battery and for some of thos ewho are very severe will not be able to chew/swallow/digest enough nutrition and hydration without some sort of physical feeding support, at least for a while.
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