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    Continuous Education Module: Nursing Management: Chronic fatigue syndrome

    There appear to be errors from the outset. E.g. CFS is also referred to as fibromyalgia CFS is more likely to be diagnosed in patients who are male. ??? Ah - one is supposed to select one answer out of three?
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    Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What’s In a Name?

    I have noticed rather a lot of psychotherapists turning up on Radio 4 programmes, and it's worried me somewhat. Perhaps even more worrying is the polite way that people ask them questions, etc., as if there's no question that they know what they're talking about...
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Yes - I have a memory of 6 months being necessary for convalescence. That's from a long time ago in my life!
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    New Sleep Poll

    Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but could sleep problems be due to our timing being skewed? In other words, if we slept when we felt sleepy, it would work? Having said that, there are times when I feel sleepy but absolutely can't sleep!
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    Sore throats swollen glands

    My lymph nodes have been permanently swollen for years now, I think. They used to go down, but not any more.
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Long Covid: 'My fatigue was like nothing I've experienced before' By Natasha Lipman Thousands of coronavirus patients, including many who were not ill enough to be hospitalised, have been suffering for months from fatigue and a range of other symptoms. While professionals struggle to support...
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    Characterization of Post–exertional Malaise in Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2020) Stussman, Nath et al.

    I was concerned that they said that the fatigue required 'complete bedrest' to recover. This isn't always the case, and anyway, it's hard for someone with ME to get complete rest, even in bed.
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    Article: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2020, Bush

    Not sure about this bit: "About 50% of those affected by CFS are able to return to work, either full or part-time.7" Otherwise seems very good.
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    BMJ letter from LongCovid doctors.

    I don't quite understand this - a person is not seen as an interest?
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    BMJ letter from LongCovid doctors.

    It's considerably more than 10 years.
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    BMJ letter from LongCovid doctors.

    But this is good: and
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    BMJ letter from LongCovid doctors.

    I like this:
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    UK writer with ME Susanna Clarke - press articles

    I haven't had this: “I think it may be a feature with chronic fatigue that you become incapable of making decisions". Does anyone else?
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    New Sleep Poll

    I alternate over-the-counter drugs, i.e. paracetamol-and-codeine, antihistamines and promethazine. I also use cannabis (proper amounts, not the currently-popular legal type) which helps enormously. I suffered hypersomnia at first, about 24-5 years ago, since when it has varied in insufficiency...
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    New Sleep Poll

    I presume that by 'somnolescence' you mean somnolence?
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    Dynamic Neural Retraining System

    Small error noticed: "Whether the were rendered".
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    Woken by horrible bone pain (?) in leg last night

    My first thought re bone pain is hypoglycaemia, having had it severely myself. Do you have enough salt/sodium, and do you take ACE inhibitors for high blood pressure?
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    Symptoms of Covid-19

    I recall adults with SARS also citing extreme fatigue.
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    Multi-omics Examination of Q Fever Fatigue Syndrome Identifies Similarities with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Preprint, 2020) Raijmakers et al.

    Could you also change this: "...QFS patients exhibit more of an inflammatory profile that CFS patients..." Should be "...than CFS patients..."
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