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"The study found that many patients feel they have to prove their illness is physical to be taken seriously and, as a result, often reject psychological support, fearing it implies their symptoms are "all in the mind"."
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"The study found that many patients feel they have to prove their illness is physical to be taken seriously and, as a result, often reject psychological support, fearing it implies their symptoms are "all in the mind"."
News Release 27-Mar-2025
Study finds long Covid patients feel pressure to prove their illness is real
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1078304
Comment: I have seen some criticisms of the full paper but the press release raises some interesting points
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
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In case it was missed in the post above, this is my updated article:
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/04/01/anna-severe-me-cfs/
My doctor predicts I will die if I don’t leave soon.
I need a solid, safe, home I can go to and recover to at least a stable baseline. It’s not full recovery, but it’s better than a slow death.
Help please
#PwME #LongCovid #MECFS #Hypothyroidism #ChronicIllness #Neisvoid #Abuse #Housing #Dysautonomia #SocialWork #MedMastodon #PWLC #MutualAid
#HumanRights #Press #Housing #Journalism #MECFS #SevereME #Abuse #Neglect #MutualAid #Narcissist #Psychopath #MCAS #MCAD #Endometriosis #ChronicPain #CostOfLivingCrisis #Melbourne #Australia #DomesticAbuse #DV
@chronicillness @longcovid @neisvoid
@disabilityjustice
@disability @socialwork
@dysautonomia @mutualaid
@mecfs
@chronicpain
@mcas
@australia
@melbourne
Different patterns of persistent somatic symptoms after COVID-19 reported by the Dutch media and the general population
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399924002988
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
If you can't join any of the other events please try to show up on social media on May 12.
#MEAction suggestion:
"Get creative - create SOS art with messages for our elected officials"
Millions Missing toolkit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jeBHwmTcxFkuEflbm0UeHGRAMvNuTKwgCP43G7eGxzQ/edit?tab=t.0
#MEcfs #PwME #LongCovid #PwLC
#MEAwareness #May12 #MillionsMissing #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
News from #MEAction - planning for #MillionsMissing 2025 (May 12)
"If you are interested in organizing a protest, gathering in a park as a community or making art, please join one of our protest organizing meetings on Thursday, April 10"
Meeting 1: Thursday, 4/10, 12pm PT/3pm ET
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/EHwZzzubSpqIi31vM1VRNQ#/registration
Meeting 2: Thursday, 4/10, 3pm PT/6pm ET
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2hriH4c1RU6VbSGbEBrjHA#/registration
Details:
https://www.meaction.net/2025/04/02/millionsmissing-2025-sending-out-an-sos/
PLEASE HELP ME ESCAPE!
Please #boost and share to other platforms.I don’t have energy left (see below).
Seems I’m famous (and real!) and desperate enough to go to the media for help. Yes, the trapped woman in the articles below is me.
Last year:
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/05/03/me-cfs-anna-australia/
Now things are worse, I’m much sicker, being neglected and will die without a safe stable #home. Doctor’s words.
If not mentioned in the article, my father is a diagnosed #narcissist with #psychopathic & #antisocial tendencies by a #psychiatrist. He urged me get away from my father asap because he is not a ‘safe person’ & neither are the other family members who lured me back through the promise of help.They didn’t help they made me progressively worse to the point of almost incapacitation at stage of #illness.
A year later:
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/04/01/anna-severe-me-cfs/
I’ve tried every level of government, every service and they simply won’t help.
Are able help? Please ask people in real life if they have somewhere for me to go. Could they take me in (I can pay small rent)? A lot people have ‘big house, not enough money’ problem. I can help!
Is anybody an #advocate? I desperately need help.
I would be incredibly grateful for any help beyond words.
Please read articles for full information.
Thank you for reading.
#PwME #LongCovid #MECFS #Hypothyroidism #ChronicIllness #Neisvoid #Abuse #Housing #Dysautonomia #SocialWork #MedMastodon #PWLC #MutualAid
#HumanRights #Press #Housing #Journalism #MECFS #SevereME #Abuse #Neglect #MutualAid #Narcissist #Psychopath
Good to see this article with some interesting people from the field quoted (e.g. Lipkin, Pollack, Sieverts, Seltzer):
"Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again"
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/01/admins-on-chronic-disease-research-abandons-long-and-mecfs-patients-again/
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
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Brain Structural Abnormalities in Patients with #PostCOVID -19 Headache
https://www.mdpi.com/2035-8377/17/4/50
Retrospective 30 vs 30 MRI case/control study. "One of our most noteworthy findings is that white matter lesions were identified in 50% of the post- #COVID-19 group, compared to 20% in the control group”
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #CovidBrain @covid19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #auscovid19 @auscovid19
Hey! Are you in the USA, near-ish to Virginia? Do you (or someone you know) have any of:
Trials are open for treatments for these symptoms!
Those interested in participating in the trials can contact the clinic for screening to see if they are eligible. The team can be reached via email at covidtrialsuva@uvahealth.org, or by phone at 434-243-4008 or toll-free at 855-882-5334.
and they seem like good folks:
“We see patients coming in who are frustrated because they look fairly normal, but they cannot fully function and are not being believed,” she said. “So, for those people, I want to say this is truly a disease and you are not imagining anything.”
Registration for online participation in the International ME/CFS Conference 2025 on 12-13 May 2025 is now open
https://events.mecfs-research.org/en/events/conference_2025
Image is from the latest Science for ME weekly update
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
Trial by Error by David Tuller
BMJ's Strange Response to Our Letter of Concern Regarding "Living Systematic review" of Long Covid Interventions
About ongoing aftermaths after Tuller with 18 colleagues sent a letter to BMJ requesting a correction to a problematic review of LC treatments.
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain
“Canadian Guidelines for Post COVID-19 Condition: This set of guidelines has been updated with new recommendations.”
https://canpcc.ca/guidelines/
Summary by an advocate: https://www.s4me.info/threads/canadian-guidelines-for-post-covid-19-condition.43322/
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain
Press release from Brazil:
"Even the mild form of #COVID19 tends to cause an imbalance in the cardiovascular system and requires attention"
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1078107
Full paper:
Impact of @COVID_19 on heart rate variability in #PostCovid ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82411-w
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid19 #LC #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
From the Netherlands:
Wearable heart rate variability monitoring identifies autonomic dysfunction and thresholds for post-exertional malaise in Long COVID
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.18.25320115v1?ct=
From the latest Science for ME weekly update
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers
#PEM @mecfs
#MEcfs
Recording with:
- Dr David Joffe: an overview of biological basis of Long COVID
- Dr David Tuller: on basis of psycho-behavioural therapy focusing on the PACE trial & a major #LongCOVID trial"
From latest Science for ME update
@longcovid
#PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #PostCovidSyndrome #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
From the US:
Altered auditory brainstem responses are post-acute sequela of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-93664-4
From the latest Science for ME weekly update
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
Meeting report. Navigating the path forward for evidence-based management of long COVID
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-025-02118-6
From the latest Science for ME weekly update
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
Unusual to see biotech research in ME/CFS particularly using UK samples:
Press release:
"Virax Biolabs Enrolls First Patients in Clinical Study Assessing T cell Dysfunction in Post-acute Infection Syndromes"
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2
Press release:
Long COVID could be costing U.S. $2.0-$6.5 billion annually
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077514
Paper (not open access):
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaf030/7972782
Comment: I think I have seen higher estimates. Still huge numbers
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19