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@FMMM1 Thanks! I'm not really worried about the AZ vaccine and its effectiveness in general but rather about my own low antibody levels after the vaccine. There's an update actually: due to the controversy around the negative test results for some of the Sinopharm vaccines, it has been offered...

What's the case with checking antibody levels after the vaccines? I'm asking because here the communication about this is horrible, statements often contradict each other (even the same person from healthcare sometimes contradicts himself) - I guess this is because they really want people to get...

They mention symptoms without a detectable cause as one of the leading psychiatric symptoms of long covid: (edit: and no such thing is mentioned in the organic disease part) And the literature they used:

It may take years before it turns out how much the epidemic has actually ruined children Very long article, which focuses on all kinds of covid and pandemic-related mental health issues in children, but of course a big part of it is about long covid because obviously that is also a mental...

Psychiatric Times: Developing a Collaborative Approach to Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Authors are psychiatrists from Harvard Medical School: Long COVID-19 challenges clinicians more than ever to listen to patients and break down the false dichotomy between mental and physical...

NOT a recommendation: FREE Long Covid and ME/CFS VIRTUAL SUMMIT July 5 - 12, 2021 Sarah Myhill, Jacob Teitelbaum, Charles Lapp, Raymond Perrin and lots of other people, yoga instructors, nutritionists, people doing music therapy, meditation, functional medicine, vagus nerve stimulation...

I haven't read all of it but this is what they wrote about the criteria they used: Edit: and also: Edit2: prevalence and the ratio of certain diagnostic codes used (G93.3 is PVFS/ME, R53 is malaise and fatigue, B94.8 is for Sequelae of other specified infectious and parasitic diseases):

Any news? Is it still the same?

Two expert opinions on this study (press release by the New Zealand Science Media Centre): One is from Dr Bronwyn Lennox Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Academic Coordinator Postgraduate Programmes in Pain & Pain Management, University of Otago, Christchurch: "The major caution about this study is...

There is also a very long article about her: ‘I Shouldn’t Have to Beg for My Life’ “Many patients are unable to work and so, you know, it interrupts their career, it interrupts their education, and it decreases their finances, and many are on disability and they simply cannot support...

I'm not sure if this is due to the different circumstances, different history/current perception of such illnesses in different countries, and I'm not part of any foreign/internation long hauler groups. But in the Hungarian LC group there are plenty of people who say they have panic attacks or...

LOL, I have a third name for it. ;) Chronic inflammatory response syndrome, also not a thing. I've learnt about it from the website of those doctors who are pushing ivermectin for long haulers (also for acute covid of course). They used it as another name for ME/CFS. According to Mepedia...

There's an article about this now. An app to help assess the severity of symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-07-app-severity-symptoms-chronic-fatigue.html Additional information I didn't know: In this sense, Drs. José Alegre and Jesús Castro, both from...

I don't know much about the cardiology part but as far as we are concerned, this review is far from great: This seems to come from the US, UCLA more precisely. Aren't they supposed to be more enlightened about this there? o_O

Guardian article: ‘I felt betrayed’: how Covid research could help patients living with chronic fatigue syndrome This is another article in "The pain that can't be seen" series that we keep seeing in the last couple of days and I think this one is the best written so far. Anthony Komaroff...

This is not obvious from the abstract but a huge part of the review is about ME/CFS and it basically summarizes almost everything about it (what kind of infections may trigger it, what the biological findings are, what might be the underlying mechanism, what kind of treatment they are...

As @MSEsperanza mentioned this article is part of a larger series of articles, titled "The pain that can't be seen". Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it's all in their head. We now know that's not true. This series looks at why doctors are playing catch-up on chronic pain...

This thread is intended for posting announcements from, and news about, Doctors with ME. ___________________ "The new Doctors with M.E. website has been launched, continuing the steady rollout of our mission and vision." https://doctorswith.me/ Also, here are the honorary fellows, including...

This is what I found on Wikipedia: Latent EBV in B cells can be reactivated to switch to lytic replication. This is known to happen in vivo, but what triggers it is not known precisely. In vitro, latent EBV in B cells can be reactivated by stimulating the B cell receptor, so reactivation in...