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Moved from the general long covid thread The Office for National Statistics has published the report: Prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the UK: 6 January 2021. They estimate 1,3 million people in the UK are have been experiencing self-reported long...

Thanks and sorry about that. The first is my spelling error (and now fixed), but the other is how Medscape is spelling it. What is the correct spelling? ETA: Googled it. Seems it's Trazodone?

Here it is. Worth reading:

The Guardian - Opinion piece Could micro clots help explain the mystery of long Covid? by professor Resia Pretorius quotes: A recent study in my lab revealed that there is significant microclot formation in the blood of both acute Covid-19 and long Covid patients. With healthy physiology...

Each question is then followed with some additional information. Very nice to see the this information in connection with question 4: Cognitive-behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy were recommended for ME/CFS in the past. However, studies supporting those approaches have been widely...

Medscape has made a quiz based on the consensus recommendations from the US ME/CFS Clinical Coalition. Here are the questions with the answers to choose from: Question 1 According to 2020 consensus recommendation, which of these is a symptom required for a diagnosis of ME/CFS? Myalgia...

- In this episode Llewellyn King talks with Rivka Solomon, a longtime ME advocate and patient who lives in western Massachusetts.

The review is from December 2021. Thought it could be of interest for some members of the forum. Even as a stress treatment, there might be some limitations to this practice and sometimes mindfulness in the Western world seems to be used mostly as a cheap band-aid that doesn't solve anything...

Abstract Background Mindfulness interventions are increasingly popular as an approach to improve mental well‐being. To date, no Cochrane Review examines the effectiveness of mindfulness in medical students and junior doctors. Thus, questions remain regarding the efficacy of mindfulness...

So sorry to hear that @Trish

Not sure if this is the best thread, but so sad to read about how teachers who have been infected with Covid-19 and haven't recovered are treated.. iNews Teachers suffering from long Covid plan to quit profession 'in droves' over 'shocking' treatment quote: “Some feel there is a lot of...

Yes it should. Thank you, @Sly Saint! Will correct.

My pleasure. It's nice to see so many good articles from 2021. I'm grateful for both the journalists who have done their research job well and especially for the patients who have told their stories. It takes courage to do that, and many probably had to pay a price afterwards.

November Technology Networks Podcast Opinionated Science: Finding Answers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Mesothelioma The Genetics Podcast The DecodeME team on the challenges facing myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome patients and the...

August The Times Experts quit over call to drop exercise as treatment for ME The Times Long Covid and chronic fatigue - your questions answered The Times Link between long Covid and ME could transform the lives of sufferers The Times ‘Doctors told me I needed to accept my fate, but I continue...

May Svenska Yle “Det är inget annat än hjärntvätt” - HUS förespråkar kontroversiell vård till patienter, också postcovidpatienter har hänvisats till samma klinik (“It’s the same as brainwashing” - Helsingfors University Hospital recommends controversial treatment to patients, also post covid...

Here's a compilation of the largest ME articles mentioned in the weekly news brief throughout the year. This is third year in a row such an overview has been made for the forum. In 2019 it was 10 articles that made the list. In 2020 it was 46. This year it's 99 articles. The high number is...

British Journal of Anaesthesia has published a pre-proof paper titled "Impaired systemic oxygen extraction long after mild COVID-19: potential preoperative implications. The paper is paywalled, but prof. Akiko Iwasaki commented on Twitter: In #longCOVID patients, “exercise capacity was...

Al Jazeera A world forever transformed: Life with Long COVID Quote: There is vulnerability, too, to the aftershock of Long COVID, to suffering from a disease that appears on medical records like a specter. Is it there? Can we prove it? Long COVID’s symptoms are amorphous, its timeline...

Thank you for sharing the links @Ravn This is nightmarish stuff indeed. Just adding a quote from the article "Sick in a health care system on the wrong track" and adding that if you want to read Marie Louise's own account of a stay at Aarhus University Hospital it's the last of the links @Ravn...