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I must say, antidepressants do help me with pain. In my case, Remergil (Mirtazapin) for endometriosis pain. From what I remember, my doctor said some antidepressants are anti inflammatory, too. Amitriptylin e.g. is often used in neuropathic pain (e.g. Post Zoster neuralgia). Doesnt mean of...

COVID-19 Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) following the first pandemic wave in Germany: a first analysis of a prospective observational study Thread on this study here...

Ist there any information yet if the vaccines prevent LongCovid, too? From what I understand, they prevent severe illness & death. But if LC is not correlated with symptom severity, can a vaccineted person still get it?

They only looked at people who were hospitalized with pneumonnia, right? And say their post covid symptoms are (neuro)psychiatric. What about pwLC that only had very mild symptoms and never needed hospital care? What has been so "traumatic" about their illness? The mere diagnosis of a positive...

Didnt PG he have a sister with ME? I wonder the lack of empathy & tone deafness then.. @Esther12 What's EBM? Edit grammar

I love his school of life channel, so many everyday life problems explained in a short yet deep way!

Are Claire Gerada and Trish Greenalgh fully recovered?

The way we think PG could have been "brainwashed" by LP (like) approaches to think ME was psychological, he might actually think the ME community had brainwashed him into believing ME, or rather his pvfs, was physical? Not an excuse but it would explain his harsh tone. I think no matter what...

So a public announcement (to the world or in the case of a less prominent figure, friends/family etc.) is part of the recovery process? Fake it until you make it? I really dont envy those who won't bc then you lose all credibility and support. This is a perfect scam.

I'm curious what other longhaulers will say about PG's LP/GET recovery. I'm worried about longcovid children. Edit to add: It could set them up for medical abuse or Münchhausen by proxy accusations if this "cure" becomes popular

Must be. I was also blocked today, never had anything to do with her or P Garner or anyone

I wonder through, could the early intervention of the ME community connecting LC with ME actually have been harmful, unintentionally? I know many on Twitter stressed that pwLC have to be studied to find out who has symptoms due to organ damage, who has post intensive care syndrome, who has...

This sounds like he's almost blaming the ME organisations for "wrong" advice? Why not mentioning the data talking about all those who didnt recover with LP, GET etc.? Maybe recovery and the perceived regain of control is so traumatic that people need to rewrite their story to make sense out of...

I dont know what the scientific term for it is but from what I remember from lectures on ethics, people are likely to have more empathy with people that look or are like them. It's terrible but it's human nature, I guess to navigate ingroup/outgroup and allocate ressources. That's why some...

I remember we've talked about transmission of SarsCov2 via drainage. This thread is about a case of 9 people infected via fecal airborne transmission

Sorry to hear :( Are you back to your old baseline or is it to soon to tell?

That's how I understand the news, too. The studies detected how many people developed symptoms. Not infection or transmission. So far I guess that means a vaccine would significantly reduce hospital admissions and deaths if enough people have taken it? Doesn't necessarily mean those people...

I have no knowledge about vaccines, could it be dangerous to take if already having had SarsCov2? I vaguely remember some discussion about a 2nd infection in some viruses being dangerous/worse than the 1st one. I know that a vaccine isn't the same as an infection but it causes a similiar...

This is exactly what I often felt. When I met doctors like that in person the hair in my neck stood up. I guess it's trauma afterall, just not the kind they thought. I'd rather get openly disbelieved, ridiculed or dismissed, at least that would be honest. But wrapping it in nice, twisted words...

That only means he hasn't seen any severe ME cases. Still, there are no cases of LongC being reported that are anywhere near severe ME (being bedbound in darkness, being tube fed, unable to speak or being touched etc.).