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A 'tsunami' of long COVID cases is about to hit, and some say the health-care system isn't ready Canada is said to be lagging behind other countries when it comes to preparation for and research into the illness...

Merged thread Long Covid is a ‘national crisis.’ So why are grants taking so long to get? "David Putrino, a neurophysiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, labored through his holiday last Christmas to write a grant application for urgently needed Long Covid research. With...

Going off topic a little. How the blood is stored can also present different outcomes. Most researchers observed a significant deterioration in cell deformability after 2 to 3 weeks of storage (see Table 1). At the same time, for several units, the stability of deformability was observed...

This message is approved by the head Hematologist in my city.

@Hutan And yet David Berg, owner of HEMEX lab, touted that 80% of ME patients tested positive for hypercoagulation. My doctor attended one of his workshops in Arizona in early 2000 and it was all the talk that HHV6 was the culprit provoking hypercoagulation. David Berg even diagnosed me...

I would say that it does come across as minimizing the seriousness of this.

Interesting, kind of describes pwME in some ways. Two of the main features of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) are disturbed gait and cognition. These features are typically investigated separately, but here we combined walking with a cognitive task to investigate if older...

Abstract Background Orthostatic syncope (transient loss of conscious when standing—fainting) is common and negatively impacts quality of life. Many patients with syncope report experiencing fatigue, sometimes with “brain fog”, which may further impact their quality of life, but the incidence...

I'm getting the Shingles vaccine within the next few years to be safe.

I might have contracted Covid over 2yrs ago when vaccines and tests weren't available. I developed a vestibular neuritis type illness that I'm still struggling with today, possible reactivation of EBV. I'm feeling better and have weeks when I feel back to my baseline, but it...

One mineral can off set the others, there has to be a proper balance. I had below normal levels of ceruloplasmin and ferritin several years ago. I've never had selenium or manganese levels tested, but I was low/below normal on so many other amino acids, fatty acids and vitamins...

The syndrome "occurs when a shingles outbreak affects the facial nerve near one of your ears," according to the Mayo Clinic. "In addition to the painful shingles rash, Ramsay Hunt syndrome can cause facial paralysis and hearing loss in the affected ear."...

Merged thread Ron Davis’s ME/CFS Moment: The “Core Technology Disrupter” Gets a Win https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2022/06/09/ron-davis-mecfs-moment-core-technology-disrupter/

Who knew? Thursday is National Long COVID Awareness Day, organized by researchers with the Public Health Agency of Canada to shine a light on the need for better research, and better treatment...

@Arnie Pye This might explain it a little better.

I hope this doesn't involve taking 'natural' blood thinners (bromelain, nattokinase et), unmonitored, and assuming it's safe. Proper testing might not be available and some pwME will experiment on their own. I took bromelain as a potential anticoagulant twenty years ago when...

I had a SED, Fibrinogen, Thrombin Antithrombin Complexes, Soluble Fibrin Monomer, CD62, CD62+ADP, Platelet Activation Index, Prothrombin Fragment 1+2 and Antithrombin Activity test done in 2001 and they all came back normal.

Summary Functional neurological disorder is common in neurological practice. A new approach to the positive diagnosis of this disorder focuses on recognisable patterns of genuinely experienced symptoms and signs that show variability within the same task and between different tasks over time...

Thank god for the BPS. I try to stay away from Yoga Centres because of the high concentration of Tai Chi masters and yoga teachers, they have it in for me. If I had a dime for every time I walked by a pair of Lulu lemons, Sweaty Betties...I'd have Boba for life

Full Title, Morning Exercise Reduces Abdominal Fat and Blood Pressure in Women; Evening Exercise Increases Muscular Performance in Women and Lowers Blood Pressure in Men, 2022, Paul J Arciero et al Well this is really good to know since I go power walking in the evenings. Don't want my BP...