UK CFS/M.E. Research Collaborative [CMRC] conference, 10th and 11th March 2020

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  1. Invisible Woman

    Invisible Woman Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    I struggle with watching video clips, but.managed Chris Ponting's on GWAS - very interesting.

    I also watched Sam Bromiley's. It made me a bit twitchy. AfME highlight the lack of access to specialist services. Given the offerings available, especially the lack of guarantee whether you'll get one of the better ones that just pay lip service to NICE guidelines or the standard kind, sometimes nothing is better than a bad service.

    He talks about the survey and the outcomes from CBT and GET, bad for those implemented by ME specialists and worse for therapist who are not ME specialists. This is hardly news to anyone including AfME as this isn't the first survey they've done.

    No direct connection made between the damage caused by CBT & GET and the fact it's the specialist services who cause the harm and then don't bother to gather that information in the first place.

    He also comments the charity now also represents young people with ME and discusses the time taken from.symptoms appearing to diagnosis. According to guidelines these should just take a few months. I can't remember the exact time 4 or 5. He refers to the same timeframe as recommended for adults. I thought it needed to be at least 6 months, but maybe I'm out of date.

    A brief mention of pacing but not *ahem* "pacing up".
     
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    That was an interesting slide in, can't find it now, that showed a woman tripled her active hours on tamiflu. That's intriguing, although probably an outlier.
     
  3. Cinders66

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    Nina muirhead said it really helped her too I think
     
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  4. Andy

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    I've done a transcript of Nina Muirheads talk
     
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    Two problems with the viral infection are that trials of antiviral medication showed no benefit and that it's difficult to demonstrate an infection. Prusty said a few interesting things that make hypotheses of viral infection more credible and sort of fit with the evidence.

    First is the idea that only very few cells might be infected, but sending out signals that trigger the cell danger response in all other cells. That could be the "something in the blood" and might explain why it is difficult to demonstrate an infection. It could also be that these infections are limited to small areas of tissue that is difficult to access.

    Second is the idea that the antiviral drugs work by interfering with viral replication, which is not necessarily taking place or only taking place in an incomplete manner.

    That's how I understood it anyway.
     
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    I think that Nina is going to be fantastically valuable to the education efforts, I've always been really impressed whenever I've had the chance to meet her, or as in this case, see her talk.
     
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    I’d guess this says “this is not just”?
     
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  9. Hoopoe

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    Interesting that Nina Muirhead thinks that the perception of ME/CFS as highly exclusionary diagnosis is problematic.

    I would agree.

    She also thinks the IOM criteria are the best to teach doctors about the illness.
     
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    She thinks doctors are so bad at recognizing ME/CFS that self diagnosed patients meeting IOM or CCC criteria might be a better group to recruit from (for studies).
     
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  11. Andy

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    Yes, I took note of that as well. Suggests that the 20k cohort for the GWAS will definitely be valuable for future research.
     
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    Major thanks for doing that transcript @Sly Saint, I know I'm not the only one who can't really handle videos, I find written material much easier.
    And that talk had some really good stuff in it - from the true facts about what doctors believe (wrong) and know (nothing),and her astute observation about patients being more use to researchers than GPs at the moment. Cheering.
     
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  13. Sly Saint

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    Does anyone have contact with Nina Muirhead?
    If she wants to get more of an idea as to what is being 'taught' she could have a listen to Chalders tripe.

    there was this podcast:
    https://www.s4me.info/threads/podca...syndrome-dr-lucy-maddox-trudie-chalder.12394/

    her lecture about her career
    https://www.s4me.info/threads/13-march-2019-chalder-‘medically-unexplained-symptoms’-my-clinical-and-research-journey-over-30-years.5576/page-3#post-152193

    another interview:
    Exercise and chronic fatigue syndrome: an interview with Professor Trudie Chalder
    (she 'explains' about the PACE trial ):
    https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...-interview-with-Professor-Trudie-Chalder.aspx

    eta:
    I also hope that somehow she can get the NHS to stop recommending Chalders books.
     
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    I'm pretty sure she will be aware. Nina is very thorough.
     
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    It'd be so useful to find out what is being taught in medical schools on ME. Not to put the information into the public domain, of course – simply to let Nina know, so that she can factor it into her own education materials. She can probably guess to a large extent what approaches are being taken, but there may be aspects (both positive and negative) that are more of a surprise.
     
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    I think Nina has done some type of survey of what is talked and asked for materials but didn't get much back from that. If I remember correctly she talks about this in her CMRC talk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjFKLFr8hqw


     
  17. Cinders66

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    I think that nina muirhead indicated or suggested at the CMRC that of the people teaching on CFS At the universities that taught anything at all, a lot or most even , i cannot remember, were psychiatrists. Which I assume indicates a largely behavioural model from them at least.

    this is one of reasons why I have objected to the mrc “ you get the progress alone” , position Because we clearly are medically in a completely different situation to an in someways similar illness like MS, in both regards to medial respect, education and infrastructure and interest and also private fundraising capabilities. To pretend we aren’t uniquely disadvantaged compared with established chronic illness, watching the NM presentations, is to me ridiculous, the “crime” has been to not get enough help to overcome the disadvantages. Although you could argue that the education aspect should have been addressed more before , i don’t know.
     
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  18. Andy

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    Just watching Karl Morten's presentation at the moment and the point about the Polish cohort being Fukuda and the Biobank being CCC is somewhat more nuanced than just a straight comparison between the two criteria on paper.

     
  19. Sly Saint

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    see my transcript a few posts above:
     
  20. Cinders66

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    Thankyou. A transcript is very useful.

    In not particularly reassured by opthalmologists - eye specialist - teaching it either
     

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