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A great opinion piece by psychologist, author and ME sufferer Frøydis Lilledalen in the Journal for Norwegian Psychological Association. She writes about "the circle of pain". How she was taught that patients increase their pain and suffering by focusing on them. But nobody taught her that this...

NPR How long COVID sheds light on other mysterious (and lonely) chronic illnesses An interview with Meghan O'Rourke. There's also a 43 minute audio interview which I haven't listened to yet. Quote: The reason I [say] autoimmune diseases and chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic...

I agree. It also wouldn't surprise me that if they have succeeded in providing proper care for severe ME patients, no noise, help with eating, few carers who are also knowledgable about ME and pay attention to reduce stimuli, help with pain and sleep, nothing for the patient to have to...

Dag Gundersen Storla, a doctor from Røysumtunet, who has many years of experience with ME and also runs a private clinic in Bærum Municipality, has today an opinion piece in the local newspaper Budstikka. He says that information about this institution now accepting severe ME patients has been...

DW News has made this mini documentary about Long Covid with people from India, Germany, Kenya and USA all talking about the same set of symptoms and struggles. The part from USA also includes additional struggles for people of color with Long Covid. One of the doctors interviewed, is Bettina...

The Sydney Morning Herald Inside a long COVID clinic, a chronic condition is revealed Quotes: Recognising the complexity of this new condition, Irving established a multidisciplinary team of specialists at the Royal Melbourne’s long COVID clinic, including psychiatrists, exercise physiologists...

A personal story about the desperate search for treatments New Scientist DIY treatments and clinical trials - one person's tale of long covid quote: Will these interventions work? Only time will tell. But like many other long haulers, I am willing to try anything. So, I find myself googling...

Opinion piece by civil engineer and ME patient Benedikte Monrad-Krohn in the medical newspaper Dagens Medisin quote: Although research on behavioral therapies has not differentiated between patients with and without PEM, the results are still interesting. Some argue that "it is the best we...

A feature article (paywalled) in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen titled: Missing: Emilie It's about 23 year old Emilie who suffers from severe ME. The article describes in detail her every day life and the battle against those who should be there to help. For instance when Emilie was...

Post copied from the News from Scandinavia thread A feature article (paywalled) in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen titled: Missing: Emilie It's about 23 year old Emilie who suffers from severe ME. The article describes in detail her every day life and the battle against those who should...

Spotted the paper in a tweet by prof. Kunst with the comment: Wow. This important new preprint demonstrates epigenetic changes in #MECFS patients during relapses/crashes. These patients showed "functionally important changes in their DNA methylomes that lead to compromised physiology".

Preprint Medrix Dynamic Epigenetic Changes during a Relapse and Recovery Cycle in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Helliwell A.M., Stockwell P.A., Edgar C.D., Chatterjee A., & Tate W.P. Abstract (242) Background Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is...

If you're looking for something newly written and short, just to get the headlines of the story, George Monbiot's article was a pretty great summary: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/21/were-about-to-see-a-wave-of-long-covid-when-will-ministers-take-it-seriously

Editorial: Current Insights Into Complex Post-infection Fatigue Syndromes With Unknown Aetiology: The Case of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Westermeier, Lacerda, Scheibenbogen, Sepulveda Conclusions In conclusion, this Research Topic collects further pieces of evidence...

National Geographic As long COVID cases grow, clues emerge about who is most at risk Quotes: Each risk factor was linked to specific long COVID symptoms. Those with autoantibodies, for example, tended to experience fatigue and respiratory symptoms. Type 2 diabetes was associated with the common...

JOSPT Lessons from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for Long COVID Part 4: Heart Rate Monitoring to Manage Postexertional Symptom Exacerbation by Todd E. Davenport et al Summary A combination of HRM and symptom journaling will best assist patients and clinicians to track...

Patient-doctor protesting loudly against humbug treatments. Best thing I've seen today :thumbup:

National Geographic How COVID-19 can har pregnancy and reproductive health quote: “Long COVID affected predominantly women, and they were not listened to,” says Bateman. “They were told it was all an emotional response to the pandemic.” A quest to understand post-viral syndromes...

He is 35 years old and currently working as a GP, so not at the very start of his career. Must be an old photo they've used where he looks much younger. But that just makes it worse. Had he been 10 years younger it might have been easier to excuse him for trusting his professor completely and...

One of the opponents is Charlotte Ulrikka Rask from Psychiatric Hospital for Children and Adolescents in Aarhus, Denmark. There's a long list of publications from her on functional disorders https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/charlotte-ulrikka-rask(1e308742-df61-47da-83ce-53d8a7c774c3).html...