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    [IgG] Complexes from infectious ME/CFS, including post-COVID ME/CFS Disrupt Cellular Energetics and Alter Inflammatory Marker Secretion, 2026, Prusty+

    Curious if this could fit together with the possible responses seen in the dara pilot, the Mensa Cd38 finding and @DMissa's recent B cell finding. Edit: To be clear I'm not a Prusty devotee in the slightest but I'm just wondering if there's anything at all of value here.
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    Invisible Illness A History, from Hysteria to Long Covid, 2026, Mendenhall (book)

    I was responding to this bit in particular. I have a lot of respect for Dakota and everything he does for the MECFS community. But I felt I had to say something in this instance.
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    Invisible Illness A History, from Hysteria to Long Covid, 2026, Mendenhall (book)

    @Dakota15 I am so angry about what ICE are doing in Minneapolis and can't imagine what you are going through right now. It is truly terrifying what is happen right now. With respect, this MECFS stuff is life or death though. Simon Wessely propagates a policy which leads to the severe...
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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    Understood. Im glad to hear all is not lost.
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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    Very disappointing to hear. I felt a little bit hopeful after your comment yesterday. Is that our hope for severe services shot down or are there things afoot that might change things? Yes precisely. And the retrospective anger when this finally breaks into the public conciousness isn't going...
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    Trial Report REGENECYTE cord blood cell therapy in post-COVID syndrome: a phase IIa randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 2026, Huang et al

    Could stem cells somehow reset an erroneous immune signalling loop or replace bad immune cells?
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    Uncovering the genetic architecture of ME/CFS: a precision approach reveals impact of rare monogenic variation, 2025, Birch, Younger et al

    But the team could request sibling participants to get in touch to give their consent - surely there is some way of figuring out who's sample is who's retrospectively?
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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    Do you have any reason to hope that?
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    UK Government Delivery Plan for ME/CFS, published 22nd July 2025

    There is absolutely no way that any claim to care about a condition can stand up to examination when it is policy not to care for the most severe cases. As someone who is severe because of the govt/NHS approach to MECFS, I find it utterly repulsive that still they refuse to provide any service...
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    Was our ME/CFS inevitable?

    So was Leibniz a determinist then?
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    Was our ME/CFS inevitable?

    You're probably right. (although I am very concerned about my risk of CTE!)
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    Was our ME/CFS inevitable?

    I think for my personal case, sadly, if we take the view that environment is a factor, I probably wasn't likely to get it, or at least I wasn't likely to have more than a bout of post viral illness as my mum did in her twenties. In my late teens and twenties I had a lot of head injuries and...
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    Alcohol Intolerance poll. Please do the poll even if your answer is no.

    Worsened hangovers at 19 were one of the first signs along with insomnia and DPDR that something wasn't right with me. When I got full ME/CFS seven years later the hangovers became even worse and I noticed feeling drunker with less alcohol although I was trying to cut down a lot on drinking at...
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    British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy 'Letter to the Ed' by Emma Hampson

    The current situation in terms of who has the power to shape care and public understanding is not 'balanced' in the slightest. It is weighted almost entirely towards what is the MECFS equivalent of climate change denial. The idea that we should be 'fair' by giving equal standing to the people...
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    Trial By Error: 'An Essay on Living with Severe ME'

    'It’s true that the psychiatrists who hijacked this friendless disease decades ago weren’t using psychiatry to claim that ME isn’t “real”. They were, on the contrary, using ME to try and emphasise that psychiatry is real – “Look how properly actually sick your delusions have made you!” They’ve...
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    Why ME/CFS and Long COVID Activism in Germany Has Been Relatively Successful - blog, 2026, Strottman

    I wonder if something like the beds protests would work here. We have so many questions being asked about ME/LC now in parliament. If there was a similar way to turn up the heat on those with their hands on the purse strings by increasing visibility, especially if the demand was simply fund...
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    Protocol Trial registration: Low-dose Naltrexone for Post-COVID Fatigue Syndrome, 2022, Luis Nacul, British Columbia Women's Hospital & Health Centre

    Posts moved from thread: The LIFT trial (OMF) - Pyridostigmine (mestinon) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) It looks like the Canadian one is six months past it's estimated completion date. I wonder why the silence.
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    Psychological symptoms predict long coronavirus disease 2019: a prospective analysis from the Women’s Health Initiative, 2026, Al-Delaimy et al.

    How many people like me were dxed with depression and GAD pre ME/CFS? Anxiety is as bad a name for the DPDR and crippling panic attacks I experienced as chronic fatigue syndrome is for MECFS. As I've said before, I suspect my pre onset symtoms may have been a prodromal or very mild form of...
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