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Wow. It must be terrible for the author to be a victim of victim culture while having to put up with real victims denying that he is the actual victim. Talk about projection...:rolleyes:

Who's going to be the one to tell U.S. NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci that he's a super-spreader of long Covid ? Medscape Interview 7/17/20

Doesn't this contradict the BPS notion that their symptoms are the result of by deconditioning? These people are continuing to work, but they are not getting better. They're also not seeking medical advice, so there goes the idea of "secondary gain" via "attention seeking."

Fixed it: Patients With Poorly Recognized and Researched Disorders Are Prone to Expensive and Potentially Harmful Medical Procedures

Curiously there's also a story about a woman who was supposedly in a state of hibernation for 32 years between 1876 and 1908, and this also took place in Sweden. The woman suffered some kind of head injury 4 days before apparently falling into more than three decades of sleep, but there's some...

Extremely well made and very effective. :thumbup:

I'm not sure if this would be a helpful in terms of an analogy that might convey the nature of PEM to healthy people, but... There is a non-infectious condition that produces a "flu-like" immune response that many people are familiar with. That condition is sunburn. A serious sunburn does...

Dr. Nath talks about "restricted viral replication" here. If I understood him correctly, sometimes following a viral infection, whole viruses may have been eliminated, but fragmentary viral sequences remaining in some cells may still be able to use the cell's machinery to create copies of...

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On the plus side, he's a resident/intern, which means he'll have several decades ahead of him... in which to try to live this down.

Might be what's called a "hypnic jerk." It's fairly common. I've experienced it a few times and it is pretty weird.

If you search for "bradycardia and Covid" or "Covid and low heart rate" you'll find many articles on that as well. One of the first "treatments" I was given after onset was Inderal (Propranolol), no doubt to address my perceived "anxiety." Inderal slows down your heart and this is supposed to...

Recommendation #1: Don't name it "Covid Fatigue Syndrome." :rolleyes:

Hopefully, this NIH grant will encourage other researchers to submit ME/CFS related grant applications. I realize that the NIH does not have a great history approving such applications - and they bemoan not getting enough high quality submissions - but that is at least, in part, a chicken and...

Interesting @Wonko. Somehow, I never got around to seeing "Justice League" when it first came out - possibly because it received only slightly better reviews than the prior "Dawn of Justice" (which also seemed like it had too much stuffed into it for its length, even at 2-1/2 hours). Thanks for...

Pretty much what I was thinking: Were the CFS patients as newly diagnosed as the LC patients? I know CFS patients can decline over the years, but the first 2 or 3 were the worst for me. Also how does possible recent lung injury in LC play into oxygen utilization?

@mango You could well be right. The announcement certainly could have been more clearly worded, that's for sure.

They don't actually say when they discovered the breach, only when it occurred, so they may not have found out about it immediately. I don't have any memory of actually giving them my phone number, though, unless it's unlisted, your name and address would be enough to find it. They do say...

Somehow, in my early 30's, I managed to injury my shoulder - really the right rotator cuff. It wasn't bad if my arm was at my side, but it could be very painful if I put my arm above or behind my head for a while and then lowered it. Unfortunately, that's something I do while sleeping, so...

I posted this on another thread about 3 years ago. It's a 2009 study that found that the low cardiac output seen in severe CFS patients was likely the result of low blood volume (which had been determined by measuring the dilution of injected radioactive markers). Nancy Klimas was one of the...