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    Is PEM triggered by physical exertion the same as worsening triggered by sensory stimuli, cognitive exertion or emotions? What are the implications?

    I just wrote a forum post and I'm sweating and feeling like I've done something physical.
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    News from Germany

    "Prof. Dr. H. Prüß is the director of the Department of Experimental Neurology at the Berlin Charité, a neuroscientist at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Berlin, and spokesperson for the Neuroimmunology Commission of the German Society of Neurology (DGN). His research...
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    News from Germany

    article is from April 2024 https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/mecfs-neurologe-fehldiagnosen-long-covid-fatigue-immunadsorption ME/CFS: Leading neurologist criticizes numerous misdiagnoses of multisystem disease
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    Well-known, famous people with ME/CFS (public thread)

    Natalie Grams, German doctor with longcovid/ ME/CFS https://www.s4me.info/threads/well-known-famous-people-with-covid-19-and-long-covid.14344/page-14#post-540796 She wrote (dictated) a book: Entschuldigen Sie bitte, dass ich störe, aber wir müssen über Long Covid und Me/Cfs reden...
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    Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

    The newspaper article is from February this year and was written in an early phase of her Longcovid. Her Instagram account is very symphatic, unfortunately not many followers yet, as she was on Twitter before her illness. Instagram...
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    Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

    Natalie Grams, German doctor, author, medical influencer "Slowed down by Long Covid: A popular medical influencer experiences hell and the maximum punishment from doctors: Disregard."...
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    Menopause and ME - what's your experience?

    Interesting poll from 2019. Hoping for more answers.
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    Placebo effect: a psychosomatic component, or only an aggregate of other biases?

    There is a new German podcast episode about placebo/nocebo effects. (German public broadcasting) The power of expectation - placebo and nocebo effects. The main author has become well known for a very good and the most listened Corona podcast in Germany. This podcast is unfortunately very...
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    News from Germany

    An interdisciplinary Long COVID congress was held in Germany on 18-19 November. https://long-covid-kongress.de/english/welcome agenda: https://long-covid-kongress.de/fileadmin/media/lcv/2022/documents/LC-Kongress-22_Programm_08-11-2022.pdf I haven't watched the livestream. This journalist...
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    Risk factors for worsening of somatic symptom burden in a prospective cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Engelmann et al

    This study was used yesterday by a psychosomatic doctor.at a postcovid congress in Germany to assert the importance of psychosocial stressors and expectations as risc factors in the development of longcovid. The congress as a whole was not about psychosomatics.
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    Risk factors for worsening of somatic symptom burden in a prospective cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022, Engelmann et al

    Risk factors for worsening of somatic symptom burden in a prospective cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1022203/full
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    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    Well written empathetic article about Longcovid in children in a German left-liberal newspaper. Unfortunately an experimental therapy is too much presented as the cause of a significant improvement which could also be natural remission. https://taz.de/Long-Covid-bei-Kindern/!5891848/
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    Germany: IQWIG Report to government on ME/CFS - report out now May 2023

    "In the longer term, neither an advantage nor a disadvantage can be seen." Then IQWiG schouldn't recommend CBT/GET. That makes no sense even if you don't take the potential side effects seriously.
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    Post-COVID-19 Syndrome is Rarely Associated with Damage of the Nervous System: ..., 2022, Fleischer et al

    In an earlier media article about this study the number of 20% psychiatric pre-existing conditions was mentioned. 20% corresponds to the average population or is even slightly below. A percentage is missing in the abstract.
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    They express themselves more cautiously than the neurologist from Essen, who says Longcovid without test results = psychosomatic. But this clinic has or had a bad reputation regarding ME/CFS. (Not to be confused with the Children's Hospital in Munich which takes ME/CFS seriously.) The study...
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Large public funded psychosomatic study to research Long-COVID. It is led by the psychosomatic department of a university clinic in Munich with the participation of several clinics in other German cities. The announcement is from October 2021...
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    Is Long Covid a type of ME/CFS?

    This Psychology Prof from Oslo tweets a lot about Long Covid and ME/CFS :)https://twitter.com/KunstJonas?t=EmlM44Oouu_y8GbJ_AXY0w&s=09
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    Post-corona fatigue-a familiar picture in a new guise?, 2022, Buchberger et al

    The lead author works at a different university than the neurologist. She has a degree in Public Health. The article is published in an oncology journal, sounds sympathetic but I don't really understand the message either.
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/panorama/ticker-corona-virus-montag-einundzwanzigster-februar-100.html
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN Professor of medicine: I don't share the panic about Long Covid https://www.waz.de/staedte/essen/medizin-professor-mit-long-covid-wird-zu-viel-panik-gemacht-id234479215.html#Echobox=1643954140 automatic translation with deepl
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