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My resting heart rate is elevated slightly when I'm in PEM (I alway get immune-type symptoms and overstimulation), going from around 55-56 to 60-62. Not a drastic difference, but the RHR increase often appears ahead of the PEM and serves as a useful signal to go straight into rest mode. In my...

I saw another online comment yesterday from someone who (like me) found their function restored temporarily to normal after receiving the AZ vaccine. There does appear to be a subgroup of patients who benefit significantly from stimulation of their immune system, either after a vaccination...

Years ago I used to go on group hikes with a trigeminal neuralgia sufferer, whose pain could be triggered by any light touch on his face (including wind). Battling against a freezing easterly on the Yorkshire coast didn't seem to be a problem; he always said it was more likely to be set off by a...

I don't know, but at least I haven't had any ME-type disbelief from doctors about the symptoms I get if I eat potato products. Food intolerance was suggested to me as the most likely cause by the consultant at the gastrointestinal clinic I was referred to, as I'd had sudden-onset severe IBS...

I agree, it was! I find podcasts so much easier to access than videos.

In my experience it's employers, channelled through patients. Employers expect sick employees to Do Something to improve the situation, and so the employee is pressured to go back to the GP, who in turn tries to help. One example (of many over a working life): about 12 years ago I was signed...

Listening to it in instalments this morning. For anyone who finds certain electronic music tones physically painful, just skip the first 45 seconds (you won't miss important content). The music's hideous, at least to my autistic brain, but the spoken content is really clear at low volume and...

I wondered whether this was the best term, but I'm not sure. Partly because it may not translate culturally and linguistically, and partly because the original meaning was specifically about manipulating someone psychologically into believing that they're insane. In the case of people with...

But on the other hand, if I kept telling the world I went swimming last week and it was my enormous determination and strength of character that stopped me picking up the verruca virus from the changing room floor, at least everyone would know I'm so stupid that I ought to be sidelined...

Absolutely – they don't want to pass it on to anyone if they can help it, which is another reason for letting everyone know that the symptoms could be mistaken for a cold.

I think a lot of the transmission is between younger people and children, who usually wouldn't be made seriously ill by any of the variants. The problem comes when they encounter someone more vulnerable, whose vaccine protection hasn't worked very well. The publicity is because there's a...

Merged thread - Delta variant Covid symptoms ‘include headaches, sore throat and runny nose’ Title says it all, really – here's a Guardian article suggesting the symptoms of this variant may not always be recognised, especially in mild cases affecting young people...

#4: Downstream effects of upstream corruption

#3: Academic-state-corporate nexus

#2: Constructs and propaganda

In the meantime, if you're using a computer, the article pastes very easily into a word processor document. I do this with most longish articles so that I can go through and break up the paragraphs into a manageable length before I attempt to read the text, but of course you can also change the...

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Thank you, I hadn't heard of him before. Honestly, if I could have the effect I got from AZ #1 once a week, I'd almost be back to normal function! The only vaccine I have regularly is the annual 'flu jab, but unfortunately it doesn't do the same. Other than an occasional slight bruise where it...

I got that too, after AZ. Less with the second dose than the first, but it's lovely while it lasts, isn't it. If it weren't for the fact it makes some folk much worse, I'd be hoping that we all need a booster at some point! :laugh:

Yes – and the trouble with releasing something like R.I.C.E. into the wild is that even if you're the most curious and least status-conscious scientist in the world, you can't call it back! It will stay in people's minds, often for decades. Folk who get niggles from training that aren't bad...