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But the rest of the NHS and the Department of Health have got their fingers stuck in their ears singing "la la la, Covid is over, it's all in the past and it's very important that we never ever think about it again." As far as cavalry goes, these guys are about on the level of primary-school...

*sigh*

They found 'common mental disorders' in over half their sample (though you have to go delving in the supplemental tables to see this; for some reason they don't want to give the figures in their summary), and they define PCS as any one of a very long list of symptoms lasting longer than four...

Reduction in serotonin transporters in the brain wouldn't necessarily correlate with overall serotonin level in the blood?

Just wondered if the #ThereforME campaign is aware of/has signed the petition? (sorry if I've missed it)

It's the kind of thing you find in Peter Gladwell's stuff about 'if you choose to increase your baseline...'

I notice in Table IV that all the women who said the intervention was helpful rated the helpfulness as 'small-moderate'. Of the two men who said it was helpful, one rated the helpfulness 'small-moderate' and one 'big'.

I googled 'butyrate diet'. The second hit was a study in mice finding that a high butyrate diet made them more susceptible to e coli, and the third was the Cleveland Clinic saying high butyrate levels can cause bloating in those with a 'sensitive gut'.

These guys heard about psychology's falsification crisis and said 'hold my aperitivo'.

Just deep, regular breathing basically! There's a feature on the app to guide you in doing it. Plus some blurb about its supposed benefits.

I've done that, but thank you for offering! Got a reply saying they would raise it at the weekly meeting where they discuss user feedback.

I've been using Visible for a few weeks and I'm pleased with it as a pacing aid. However I've been trying the 'coherent breathing' feature the last few days and finding it makes me feel worse; it also lowers my HRV, when the advertised purpose is to raise it. Today I scrolled through the...

Broadly agree from my experience of Long Covid: first few months featured significant fatigue and generally feeling dreadful and fuzzy in the brain, but the OI/PEM stuff (including the urgent need to lie flat at times) didn't develop until months 3-5 ish. I generally prefer resting sitting in a...

Just so tired of this 'Patients reported cognitive symptoms, but we ran some brief and limited cognitive tests and didn't find much, so they must be imagining it' routine.

She's very good. You can see the strain of talking but she makes her points clearly.

We can only hope the contributing members won't be the same ones who wrote this stuff in the BPS Response to the NICE consultation on the Draft Guideline on Management of Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 in December 2020: https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-06/BPS Response to the NICE...

See rvallee's post above in this thread re Cambridgeshire & Peterborough https://www.s4me.info/threads/curable-mind-brain-training-app-and-me-cfs-including-the-role-of-fiona-symington.37776/page-6#post-523596

... when you test for it using blunt instruments that don't properly identify it, and refuse to do any more specific testing on the grounds that it would 'medicalise' the situation. Then you can happily reassure yourself that the patients are wrong, you are right, and all is for the best in the...

I wonder if there's any way to report these deteriorations, like the Yellow Card system for adverse events/side effects with medication?

The Telegraph continuing its efforts to ensure that the public health response to the next pandemic will be even worse than the last one.