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    Long COVID involves activation of proinflammatory and immune exhaustion pathways, 2025, Aid et al.

    What do people actually mean when they say T Cell exhaustion?
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    Open Norway: Plasma cell aimed treatment with daratumumab in ME/CFS (ResetME) - Haukeland University Hospital

    It's bizarre to me that they don't see this. Ditto the UK and SequenceMEs potentially.
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    Long COVID involves activation of proinflammatory and immune exhaustion pathways, 2025, Aid et al.

    They have quite a lot of graphs and charts in the article - what they claim to have found would fit with a lot of what we discuss here. They claim to have found an increase in IFN-Y and IFN a/b, along with JAK 3 and complement c2 and c4, and they say: IL-6 has been coming up a lot lately...
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    UK: Led By Donkeys/Democracy for Sale expose on government Life Sciences plan

    The recent Led By Donkeys/Democracy for Sale expose contains a claim by former Tory MP Ben Howlett, the subject of the expose, that the Labour governments Life Sciences plan was drafted by Ben Howlett and his Chamber Group - a shady organisation providing cash for access services to (apparantly...
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    United Kingdom: ME Association governance issues

    That's good news. Can you say whether the government seem receptive to this?
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    Reddit - Interesting posts on Reddit, including what some doctors say about ME/CFS

    Agreed. And even if not recovered, a lot of people would still be somewhat functional with lives that were still fulfilling.
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    Reddit - Interesting posts on Reddit, including what some doctors say about ME/CFS

    I'll outline my situation as I think it's illustrative. My partner and I began both to suffer from PEM after a strep infection at the start of 2017. But we had no idea what was wrong with us. We both had chronic tonsillitis after so we thought that was why we felt bad. Or we were catching colds...
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    Rosetta Stone Study: £1.1m awarded to investigate links between ME/CFS and Long Covid

    Will this study be doing home visits for severe pwME?
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    United Kingdom: ME Association governance issues

    Fingers and toes crossed! Agreed, sadly. They have more work to do to redeem themselves in my eyes.
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    United Kingdom: ME Association governance issues

    Oh i totally forgot to do this with my big give donation!
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    United Kingdom: ME Association governance issues

    The question is how to we do this? I have limited resources as a severe person, but I want to do everything I can to ensure this happens. I am a writer, and will happy write or copy edit anything (of a reasonable length) that would help towards this end, be it social media posts or something...
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    Rosetta Stone Study: £1.1m awarded to investigate links between ME/CFS and Long Covid

    This is great! But I really want to see the results of WILCO. And it goes to show that charities could fund at least part of SequenceME if it came down to it. I don't understand why that hasn't happened already. And as was pointed out on bluesky, it's absolutely insane that six years after the...
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    Trial Report Plasma cell targeting with the anti-CD38 antibody daratumumab in ME/CFS -a clinical pilot study, 2025, Fluge et al

    @Jonathan Edwards do you have any thoughts on how these five patients responded and what it might mean if it's not a placebo response? And did you ever hear back from Fluge when you emailed him about the possibility of anti CD38 being effective by another mechnism than LLPC depletion? It would...
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    Trial Report Plasma cell targeting with the anti-CD38 antibody daratumumab in ME/CFS -a clinical pilot study, 2025, Fluge et al

    I read that summary of their hypothesis last night and fwiw I have to say that subjectively their idea about it messing with blood flow definitely feels right in terms of how my symptoms feel and affect me.
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    Trial Report Plasma cell targeting with the anti-CD38 antibody daratumumab in ME/CFS -a clinical pilot study, 2025, Fluge et al

    Iirc F&M just say antibodies in general. E.g. here https://www.me-foreningen.no/om-oss/stott-me-foreningen/me-fondet/english-me-fund/
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    Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2025, Jiang et al

    The idiocy and cynicism of the corporation/government driven movement to gaslight the public into thinking 'covid is like totally fine now what are you even worried about' never ceases to disgust me. None of my non ME/LC friends take any precautions anymore. I worry about them - they have been...
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    The feeling of being "poisoned" - what do we know about it?

    I wouldnt compare it to a regular hangover, but back in the day I regularly drank myself to the point of experiencing alcohol poisoning or alcohol withdrawals. And that really was similar to that total poisoned feeling form of PEM. Although as I've said I think I may have had a prodromal form...
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    Preprint Systems Immunology of Long Covid: Insights from the STOP-PASC Clinical Trial, 2025, Maestri, Bonilla+

    I found the above for IL1R2 And this for IL1RL1 I wonder if anyone more knowledgable thinks their association with PEM here (and IL1R2 being associated with fatigue in the first study I linked) could make some sort of mechanistic sense?
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    Preprint Systems Immunology of Long Covid: Insights from the STOP-PASC Clinical Trial, 2025, Maestri, Bonilla+

    This looks really interesting. A fair few cells/molecules come up here that have been discussed before. Have we seen these come up before? Interesting that this came from the STOP-PASC cohort.
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