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    UK Parliament: ME/CFS Announcements: Statement by Health Secretary Sajid Javid, 12 May 2022

    This is significant. For example if someone decided to write to their MP to ask the CCG about plans in response to NICE guidelines such a statement by the Health Secretary would possibly assist in getting some previously disinterested MPs to engage with ME/CFS as a serious issue.
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    ME Awareness Day / Week / Month, May 2022

    I know we still have a long way to go. However for the first time I have felt confident enough to have tagged in my GP surgery into a Facebook post about International ME day and I have written to my CCG about the NiCe implementation statement and asked what their plans are.
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    Why use Forget Me Not as a symbol for ME?

    In the UK the Alzheimer’s Society uses the forget me not. In their logo and fundraising
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    New book: 'Breaking Free' (PASC: ME and Covid-19)

    Oh I can think of a few gestures and expressions of my own to use Jan, I don’t need your brainwashed input
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    USA: National Institutes of Health (NIH) intramural ME/CFS study

    Maybe one of the benefits from the study will be any evidence they provide that other diagnoses really should be thoroughly checked for.
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    Help needed: Send messages to Hungarian pwME for my ME Awareness Day project

    Can relate @Peter Trewhitt it took me a long time multiple rewrites. Harder ti be succinct
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    United Kingdom: Independent SAGE

    Wherever there is an opportunity to try to exert influence…..
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    Shilajit

    Sadly there’s a few of these studies based on tired animals. :banghead:
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    Help needed: Send messages to Hungarian pwME for my ME Awareness Day project

    Szia fellow people with ME in Hungary. I have what’s called gradual onset ME and had been working 30 years when I finally got ME diagnosis and was not able to keep working.. I enjoy being in contact with people with ME from my country and around the world. Individually advocacy actions we can...
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    "Treating Long-COVID: Part 1" by Doctor B (the PT) i.e. a physical therapist

    @PhysiosforME another who would benefit from some education
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    What does it mean when an ME/CFS patient says they "got long covid" after catching SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID)?

    Interesting because I’ve seen quite a few people with ME talk about internal tremors and chest pain pre pandemic. If someone already has moderate/severe ME before catching covid possibly any new symptoms are easier to attribute to covid. But if your ME is milder end of the spectrum you are...
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    Medically unexplained or not? Be aware of a somatic cause of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, 2022, Hilderink and van Vugt

    I wonder if there’s any likelihood of people with a good understanding of ME, the likes of Keith Geraghty or Leonard Jason or others pursuing this area?
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    United Kingdom: News from Forward-ME Group

    Presumably reference to DSHC is dept of Health and social care Reads like they didn’t actually discuss the Nice service spec which I consider a topic they need to keep on top of
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    Open Natelson patient recruitment, NYC, USA

    Post activity fatigue also known as post exertional malaise……….
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    Crashed. Could hayfever have done this?

    Thanks all I’ll probably try to speak to a GP about it
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    Crashed. Could hayfever have done this?

    I appear to have a combination of hayfever and PEM I’ve had pretty mild hayfever occasionally in the past. Nothing like this headache and cough though. I moved in last couple of years so I’ve got different trees in my garden. Now have a Maple which appears to have its flowers currently and...
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    Dr Sanil Rege (psychiatrist based in Australia) - video on diagnosis and treatment of CFS and ME.

    Graded exposure therapy isn’t that a Freudian slip just letting out that they really do think it’s some kind of mental block like fear of flying or spiders that can be treated by gradual exposure.
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