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There has just been a scientist on BBC Radio 4 saying that it's not yet known whether vaccination prevents Long-COVID, and that it might take a long time to know.

That's the 100 million dollar question as far as we're concerned, and I doubt if we'll know for a long time. My guess is that in the case of auto-immune disease, such as my own, I think, it might well worsen it. That's why I don't have the flu jab. It might also depend on whether one has...

Lyme disease: 'People say I don't look ill' - BBC News Yen Lau caught Lyme disease from an infected tick bite during a camping trip to Loch Lomond almost four years ago. She says she is living with an "invisible disease" that today still causes her days-long bouts of sickness, migraines...

@Jonathan Edwards Do you mean chronic fatigue syndrome?

Well, I have very little ME pain, and didn't get much in the way of period-type pain either.

Can you confirm which vaccine you had, @DokaGirl? Was it Pfizer?

But isn't it different in that it varies over time? As discussed here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/do-your-symptoms-have-a-temporal-pattern.20919

Strange - it doesn't sound bad enough to cause hospitalisation.

I had Bell's Palsy following chickenpox aged 5. Mine never recovered. Had 2 ops later as was desperate; 2nd was rather experimental, and left a swelling of the right side of my face.

Yes - I studied Alzheimer's and all the probably-wrong theories for my Master's degree, and I think I found tau abnormalities a lot more likely to be a cause than amyloid-beta. But still they keep trying. :(

I'm puzzled by the sample criteria: "Adult ME/CFS patients who attended the internal medicine department of Angers University Hospital (France) between October 2011 and December 2019 were included in a retrospective medical records review." Haven't got the mental energy to look at the paper...

I trust that this should read 'June 2021'?

If I remember rightly, Professor Steven Rose was on about amyloid beta in connection with Alzheimer's many years ago, despite the fact that he found results similar to these. I challenged him vigorously at the Open University about it. Isn't it time that they sought the actual cause of this...

So sorry, @Keela Too. :hug:

I don't think of ME/CFS as a chronic pain condition - I have very little pain. 22% of respondents to this survey Pain meds poll | Science for ME (s4me.info) report no pain from ME.

Just did a search, and @Sisyphus had Pfizer (1st time anyway).

I think it was decided not to administer AstraZeneca to people under a certain age. Not 100% sure.

I listened to this - very interesting. I thought it unusual to hear medical professionals with Long Covid talking about the same problems that ME sufferers have had for decades, i.e. no medical help and extreme worry about finances.

I've tried cannabidiol too, and found it unimpressive. Much better is real cannabis.

Shame that Argar can't spell 'lightning'.