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    Reduction of long COVID symptoms after stellate ganglion block: A retrospective chart review study, 2024, Deborah Duricka et al

    We have several threads on this treatment, including a discussion thread: Stellate Ganglion Block treatment To find threads on other research click on the stellate ganglion block tag at the top left of this thread.
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    Published poems by Veronica Ashenhurst, who has Severe ME

    I'm very sorry to hear you and your mother had such a hard time with Covid. A beautiful poem, as ever. Thank you. This part, inevitably, struck home with me too:
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    News from Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific Islands

    See also this thread: Works of fiction where characters have ME/CFS
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    Assessing Functional Capacity in [ME/CFS]: A Patient Informed Questionnaire [FUNCAP], 2024, Sommerfelt et al

    Interesting question. I think FUNCAP asks for an average day over the last month, so it enables a sort of overview of our current state of health/function as we recall it over the last month. For some, that will have been a roller coaster of awful, bad and less bad days, for others it will have...
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    Australia: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): Development of ME/CFS guidelines

    Sounds like good news. Well done those who made this happen. I hope this suggestion that PEM only affects 'some people' with ME/CFS will be corrected.
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    The Guardian. Series of articles about people’s lives with long Covid

    Fair point, @RaviHVJ, I was referring to treatments that are not prescribed on the NHS that have no basis. I also know someone in another country with Long Covid who has been helped by doctors concentrating on POTS treatments particularly.
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    Effectiveness of a symptom-clinic intervention ... multiple and persistent physical symptoms, 2024, Burton, Deary et al

    How can something be 'a little better but no noticeable change'? If the change isn't noticeable, how do they know it's a little better? That scale that only allows one negative/no change and lots of variations of positive should be illegal. It's not a research instrument, it's the cheats version...
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    Effectiveness of a symptom-clinic intervention ... multiple and persistent physical symptoms, 2024, Burton, Deary et al

    Maybe write to the authors and ask how the figure was calculate. They shouldn't be reporting a figure without the clear source.
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    Participatory design of bodysymptoms.org: An interactive web resource to explain multisystem functional somatic symptoms 2024 Saunders, Burton et al

    Chris Burton Department for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatic Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
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    Assessing Functional Capacity in [ME/CFS]: A Patient Informed Questionnaire [FUNCAP], 2024, Sommerfelt et al

    Well done with getting it all the way to publication. I think it's a very valuable resource.
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    Good Days and Bad Days in Cancer Fatigue

    I thought cancer fatigue didn't involve PEM or other ME/CFS symptoms, that it really is the symptom fatigue on its own.
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    Measuring cerebral hypoperfusion with Doppler ultrasound

    Why would spending a lot of time horizontal affect what happens in terms of blood pooling when standing up, apart from the initial adjustment needed if you get up too quickly?
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    : TV casting call for people living with ME/CFS

    Not any that have made their presence public, I think. Edit: I mean I'm not aware of any, public or privately.
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    : TV casting call for people living with ME/CFS

    Charity number: 1193035, registered in the UK. https://bacme.info/
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    : TV casting call for people living with ME/CFS

    That's good. So which charity are they talking about?
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    : TV casting call for people living with ME/CFS

    Fantastic, thank you so much, @PhysiosforME
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    : TV casting call for people living with ME/CFS

    That was my worry too. There does seem to be something going badly wrong with the MEA.
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    Chris Armstrong - Melbourne ME/CFS researcher, research updates and general chat

    Are you aware of or in touch with people researching the Visible app that uses HR and HRV monitoring as well as symptoms and FUNCAP? I'm not up to date with what they are doing, but I understand Visible provides a morning score for the coming day based on data.
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