Reddit - Interesting posts on Reddit, including what some doctors say about ME/CFS

[SNT Gatchaman]

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For the data minded from the past 365 day moderator insight panel of r/covidlonghaulers :

22.8 Million unique page views, an increase of 7.9m over the previous year. An average of 239k unique daily visitors.

77.4k users, up 7.8k from the previous year.

26.1k published posts, up 9.7k from the previous year.

607k published comments, up 264k from previous year.

 

[EndME]

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I don't think it's worth much to pay any attention to that data. Reddit subs often tend to grow. I remember looking at different stats via https://subredditstats.com/ and none of the longcovid ones looked particularly special and almost every sub is shown to be growing. Besides that what applies to other subs also applies to the longcovid or ME/CFS related ones: You will see posts by bots, commented on by bots, which are then discussed by bots.

 

[Chandelier]

30 years… and they still remember the date they fell ill.

Thirty years today​

I fell ill with an unidentified virus in the evening of Feb 6th 1996, and developed ME/CFS as a result.

The most important improvements in managing this illness that I’ve seen during that time have been communities like this on the internet, and wearable tech like smartwatches.

I was ill for about 15 years before I talked with someone else who had this, and then only because a colleague was diagnosed and came to me for advice. These online communities are an incredible resource for advice, information, and support.

I’m encouraged by the amount of good research now being done (the silver lining in the cloud of long covid) and hope we’ll see reliable diagnostics and treatments in the near future. In the meantime, pace and rest.