The Spinoff (17/1/21): Some advice for ‘long Covid’ sufferers, from the chronic fatigue community Nothing new here, much as the title says, but a...
Terry's nails lunulas disappeared except for on thumbs but those are slowly shrinking now, too mild vertical ridges occasionally Beau's lines on...
A while ago I did a trial of 3 devices to measure sleep, wearing all 3 at the same time: 1) a Fitbit wrist monitor (quite an old one, probably...
Otago Daily Times (14/1/21): Post-viral illness thrust centre stage Nothing new here, just a quite sensible opinion piece looking at the...
Since the editors of this Long Covid page seem to have a reasonably good understanding of ME I went looking to see what Physiopedia had on ME/CFS....
I expect there's vigilant monitoring of side effects going on but 1) are they also being categorised and analysed to see if there are certain...
New (at least to me) biomedical researchers always welcome! Muscle wasting? In the bedbound, sure. Though whether it's a consequence of the...
I think they focus on diagnostic categories because this looks to be a review aimed at physiotherapists wanting to make practical treatment...
This underlines the value of good, open-minded clinician researchers who also happen to see a representative group of patients. I fear they're an...
This seems to be where we're at with ME: the fatigue meme. How exactly did they do this? I could find plenty of praise for them online for doing...
Just alerting Australians to this post in the News from NZ thread. The conference is largely an Australian thing. More at original post News from...
For the Big Ideas Forum: http://www.chfsummit.com.au/ehome/518286/bigideasforum/ But there are several "panel discussions with live Q & A" after...
I want to scream yes, yes and YES!!! in response to every single one of these sentences but will restrain myself to one word in capitals. Is this...
Yeah, the choice of the term "severe" here is unfortunate and creates unnecessary confusion. There's plenty enough confusion around what "severe"...
It was just about the number of criteria met, based on past studies having found patients who meet stricter criteria usually are more severe than...
Gosh, I wish more ME studies would consider PEM in this much detail and relate PEM findings with overall symptom picture! This study asks about:...
I thought this was a missed opportunity together with there not being a split analysis of the ME/CFS (mostly Fukuda) group with respect to PEM....
Videos have been posted (most are in German, some of the English ones have a German voice-over, at least at the start, haven't watched any...
Actually, this may not have the expected effect. I tried that phrase out on some friends and a few of them interpreted it as positive. As in "I...
Come to think of it, I rarely even try these days because it is so difficult to do it succinctly. What I do say when I try is, let's say, highly...
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