Actually, this is what the CCC says about the absence of pain: "*There is a small number of patients who have no pain or sleep dysfunction, but no other diagnosis fits except ME/CFS. A diagnosis of ME/CFS can be entertained when this group has an infectious illness type onset."...
The article is now published. I could read it without a problem, there was no paywall.
What Fatigue Really Means
Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.
By Ed Yong
Btw, interesting tidbit about the corresponding author, Tamás Constantin, who is a well-known pediatrician here (a rheumatologist):
He streamed a Facebook video very early into long covid, which was a discussion of pediatric long covid with three other pediatricians. I watched it back then and...
The part about long covid:
Interesting that out of all things the authors think it is the aftereffects of toxic shock syndrome that neuro long covid is strikingly similar to.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the coronavirus 2 of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) has significantly affected people around the world, leading to substantial morbidity and mortality. Although the pandemic has affected people of all ages, there is increasing...
Abstract
Background Long COVID is a debilitating chronic condition that has affected over 100 million people globally. It is characterized by a diverse array of symptoms, including fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and respiratory problems. Studies have so far largely failed to identify genetic...
I heard about it just in general when I was a teen, without knowing about any specific conditions. I did believe it was a real thing but in my mind I automatically put it in the "X-Files" category of psychology, along with stuff like split personality (based on my movie experiences of course!)...
The BMJ: ME/CFS: Researchers question credibility of NICE guidance
by Elisabeth Mahase, paywalled
Guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) “deviated from usual scientific standards” and could cause...
And they call PEM the way I translate it on my website in their translation. Great! They usually translate PEM pretty horribly (on the rare occasion anyone even translates it), because the translator has no idea what it actually means. I don't know if my website was a source for translating the...
Btw, I've just checked the Hungarian version of the text and while the English text uses the term ME/CFS, the Hungarian one consistently says myalgic encephalomyelitis. Not sure what is going on there as Hungary is definitely a CFS country as far as naming goes. I find it hard to get even...
Maybe this thread would have a better place in a different subsection of the forum? Because there seems to be lots about long covid and ME/CFS in this resolution, not just the epidemic itself.
Edit: btw, I've been also wondering a lot recently if it is worth creating a regional thread for...
I copy the relevant sections here, let me know if I omitted some other interesting part:
The European Parliament
(...)
– having regard to its resolution of 18 June 2020 on additional funding for biomedical research on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS)2 ,
(...)
– having regard to the DG IPOL...
Veterinarian and virologist professor Miklós Rusvai frequently talks about covid in the media, here is an article where he also mentions long covid (Google Translate):
Marina Diamandis, singer
Article in the Rolling Stone: Marina Opens Up About Tiring Illness: ‘It’s Been Hard to Remember What Healthy Feels Like’
Marina Diamandis, the pop singer who performs using just her first name, opened up on Wednesday about her recent diagnosis of chronic fatigue...
Also published in the Evening Standard and The Independent.
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Another article but by a different author, Helen McArdle:
'Flawed and harmful': Scientists blast ban on exercise therapy for chronic fatigue
Another article (Google translated) about the vaccines, this time on a pretty well-known news site. I only copy here the part that an immunologist said about what he believes to be the reason why these symptoms some people attribute to the vaccines are so similar to long covid:
Congrats to New Zealand!
On a side note, we have been basically kicked out of these research funds recently (because in the case of most universities, how they were run financially has been restructured and not in a good way). Not that anyone was doing serious biomedical research into ME/CFS...
Often dismissed by the medical establishment, people with complex illnesses such as ME and long Covid are taking the hunt for treatments into their own hands
In 2019, years after developing the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) that had kept her bedridden in a state of chronic pain and...
I just want to add that this guy's Medical Medium book gets recommended every once in a while in my group, so now I added it to my list of keywords that automatically sends me a moderation alert (so I can purge these comments as quickly as possible).
The worst part is that there is a doctor...
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