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That's odd. The abstract is still available at the link and says it was published by the joural on 3rd November. https://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2023/11/02/ard-2023-224848

Thread on the study: https://www.s4me.info/threads/sars-cov-2-specific-immune-responses-in-patients-with-postviral-syndrome-after-suspected-covid-19-koralnik-et-al-2023.34927/

This looks like a really important report. The fact that half of the patients, ie over 300, report deterioration should be a wake up call for everyone attempting to rehabilitate with exercise people with PEM, whether diagnosed with ME/CFS or Long Covid.

Many thanks to the US organisation Long Covid Families who have added their name to the list of organisations supporting our campaign and agreed to promote the petition to their members. https://longcovidfamilies.org/about-us/

That short article doesn't really tell us anything. It's just a fundraiser.

So irresponsible. Why do they keep doing it? Answer - to make money from desperate people.

Looks like Jason Busse is a Chiropractor with science degrees including PhD as well. Not a medical doctor. Treats people for pain and fatigue.

I'm not on Twitter any more. Has anyone linked this thread to inform them they are promoting rubbish?

Thread on the paper in the journal Cell referred to in the artice: Serotonin reduction in post-acute sequelae of viral infection, 2023, Cherry et al

It's good that they are challenging this research, but I don't think there's any research evidence to support this: I know the NICE guideline says it can be offered, but I don't think it should be repeated without the warning that it can also cause harm, as it did to me.

We have several threads on papers by Jason Busse who is on the author list and presumably the professor supervising this research.

Oh good, let's invent another 300 questionnaires and write another paper about them. And another And another

What a bizarre article.

This looks like a rather poorly designed student project. There is no data given about which treatments patients attributed their recovery or improvement to, no questionnaire or other data on how sick they were and how they are now, no info on how long this claimed recovery or improvement has...

Of course it's Paul Garner. It seems he is dedicating his retirement to getting as much published as possible to prop up his fantasies that if only we'd all listen to people who have 'recovered' we'd all get better. Any idea of scientific evidence seems to have been expunged from his brain.

Merged thread Patient perspectives of recovery from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: An interpretive description study Zara Hasan BHSc, Cassandra Kuyvenhoven PhD, Mehreen Chowdhury, Lana Amoudi BHSc, Dena Zeraatkar PhD, Jason W. Busse PhD, Marina Sadik MA, Meredith Vanstone...

The link given takes me to 'page not found'. This link worked for me: https://community.cochrane.org/new-cochrane-privacy-policy#:~:text=data%20is%20aggregated.-,Disclosure%3A%20Do%20we%20share%20your%20personal%20data%3F,giving%20your%20details%20to%20us.

The 2020 edition seems to have shrunk that section https://academic.oup.com/book/35444 It's now headed Somatic symptoms and related disorders with chapter headings: 129 Deconstructing dualism: The interface between physical and mental illness by Michael Sharpe and Jane Walker Abstract...

The 2012 Edition chapter on CFS is in a large section headed Psychiatry in Medicine, with chapters including somatoform, MUS, somatisation, conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, factitious disorder and malingering, neuresthenia etc. https://academic.oup.com/book/24770

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Second edition published 2012 https://academic.oup.com/book/24770 Chapter 5.2.7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0133 Abstract (paragraph breaks added) Chronic fatigue syndrome is...