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This January article on Post-Covid POTS said: I'm not sure if myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) is supposed to be a cause of POTS, but, if asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were developing POTS, wouldn't that pretty much undermine the idea that POTS is related to deconditioning? I...

I post this mainly to suggest that it can be risky to speak in absolute terms. There was a 2017 study that followed a 3,175 people over 25 years to determine the effects of physical activity on their health. They were divided into three categories: A) those who exercised below the guideline...

FWIW, this is generalized as "The Law of the Instrument." There are several variations on it and explanations of its meaning. Philosopher Abraham Kaplan is credited as the first person recorded as having said, "Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs...

I thought this was an interesting story. Various ideas are floated for why some long-Covid patients improve following post acute illness vaccination with Covid-19 vaccine. Could be coincidence, or some kind of placebo effect, of course. Some explanations are proposed, such as the possibility of...

I liked this bit in particular:

[bolding mine] This is an interesting idea. I wonder if "shallow rapid breathing through the mouth" is noticeable to the person doing it. If not, it might be consistent with some ME patients (like me) who have reported the sensation of "forgetting to breathe," at least early in the illness -...

So could reduced FMD result in hypertension and/or possibly low blood volume, simply because the blood vessels are too constricted? Are all blood vessels affected, or just those of a certain size? I don't know this to be true, but, if constricted blood vessels were to reduce blood volume, might...

I'm going to assume it's pronounced like the name of Greek actress Irene Papas.

After Anthony Burgess' novel, I would have advised against naming any behavioral study using either the word "clock" or the word "orange."

FWIW: In this 2011 article by Leonard Jason, et al., the relative ability of the empiric and CCC criteria to identify patients from controls did not seem wildly different (79% vs 87%), but it seems to beg the question of how they determined who was a "true" patient in the first place.

It's a pity that the BBC iPlayer is only available in the UK. I would have been interested in what he had to say. He seems like a very good communicator.

But I get all my medical advice from scholars of the Iron Age! :)

[Not sure if this short article from Johns Hopkins Medicine has been posted elsewhere.] 12/29/2020 Covid-19 Story Tip: Brain Fog, Fatigue, Dizziness ... Post-COVID POTS Is Real...

The best spin I can put on this is that Collins' tweet was aimed specifically at people with Long Covid and he didn't want to "complicate" things by introducing the subject of ME/CFS. In the United States you have to assume that the average person has never heard of "ME / myalgic...

Yes, this is about as clear as someone saying "You can't exercise too much if you have ME." :confused:

May not be connected, but there is a condition called chromhidrosis in which sweat takes on different colors (including blue). The condition is considered benign, but it can obviously be a source of concern to the patient. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/chromhidrosis

They were also concerned about anthrax.

I think this started when I was a teenager, several years before I got ME, but when I would move from a dark environment to bright one, or vice versa, my vision would sort of strobe in brightness as though I was rapidly blinking. It would last for maybe 15 seconds. I assumed this was just...

I thought one of the proposed causes of GWI had to do with the multiple vaccines and anti-nerve agents that the soldiers were given.

Holy cow! ;)