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I would suggest it's too early to say. The vaccines have been prioritised based on those most likely to become severely ill, be hospitalised and possibly die. Currently, in my area they are vaccinating the 50+ age group and those with higher risk factors. As far as we know long covid tends to...

Yeah, that's right he helped develop a treatment programme that made an awful lot of people worse and his work increased the stigma that patients face even today.

This is spot on and I'm glad to see it being addressed. When you have brain fog and issues communicating and trying to describe symptoms it's all too easy for doctors to.out words in your mouth. Quite complex and nuanced symptoms are quickly reduced to memory and concentration problems when...

Presumably blithely ignoring the fact that a) some people grow out of it in their teens b) the chances are when she went to uni she also moved away from home and thus lived in a completely different environment.

I know I've been banging on a bit recently about this fear of being ill causing, making illness more severe or perpetuating illness recently. I think we can all.see they are going to carry on using this tired old argument and probably throw in about the spread of fear through social.media...

The media misinformation has caused some real stupidity. I was discussing this with a friend who has an in-law who works for the NHS in a quite high level position. The in law isn't going to get the vaccine because it's too new and therefore not safe. But it's not like they had to completely...

What an arrogant assumption. I got ill at about the 30 age mark. Fear of becoming ill was the very last thing on my mind, I was too busy planning my life and career and getting stuck in. This idea that we were all lying on our chaise longues worrying that we might become ill &, if we did...

I think one day it will bite them all on the ass. This is one of the reasons they play so dirty. They know one day their emperor's new clothes will be seen for what they are & they know just how bad the fall out will be. So they will do anything to make sure it doesn't happen in their...

Today is a week to the day since my first dose of AZ vaccine. No noticeable reaction. IM had his first dose this morning. :emoji_fingers_crossed:

Asthma and allergies can kill. When is this madness going to stop? When are these people who insist on playing fast and loose with other people's health and their very lives going to be held accountable?

Under work and health - "Give reassurance that an increase of symptoms on return to work is unlikely to mean harm in most people" Sigh. I really hope this catches up with the likes of Madan one day - especially if she's claiming any expertise on ME.

General Occupational Health Principle - otherwise known as stating the bl**ding obvious...... One of the points - "Worklessness is associated with poor physical and mental health and increased risk of self harm." love the way that's put to imply that being workless is the driver here rather...

I get a thread not found error. Edit is it this one? https://www.s4me.info/threads/nih-2-5m-r01-grant-to-drs-liisa-selin-and-anna-gil-for-their-work-on-altered-t-cells-in-me-cfs-2021.19726/

I don't understand why there seems to be this very binary view....had symptoms, symptoms disappeared and therefore I am fully cured. Especially in an infection where some people remain asymptomatic throughout. It's like assuming all there is to an iceberg is the bit you can see.

Yep, had a phone chat with my elderly neighbour yesterday. Her daughter and son in law were quite badly affected by covid but not quite ill enough to be hospitalised. It took them a few months to get over it. The vaccine made them feel like they'd contracted the virus again. They had a...

Another aspect that this lady with MS mentioned that's also very relevant to us - by the time she got the correct diagnosis and needed to learn what to do to best manage her symptoms and get the most out of life she had lost all.of her confidence. Having spent so many years being told her...

Entirely down to the drugs they insisted that she take. By the time I met her she needed a fair bit of help and had been weaned off the anti depressants. She tried to connect to connect with her now more or less adult children but she had been emotionally absent for too long and they simply...

I agree that AfME has been seen to take some positive steps recently. Not all good but not all bad either. I'm afraid it will take time and action before there will be automatic trust with anything AfME is involved in. I've seen them consistently throw us under the bus for many, many years...

My body temperature is always slightly low at around 36.2 usually. i am do have hypothyroidism but even when adequately medicated my temperature doesn't go higher. if I feel feverish with sore glands it rarely goes up much - the most I've seen it is 36.5 and that's when I feel like I'm burning...

And we need to stop looking at obesity as a single problem and see it as part of a much bigger picture. Another area where BPS could have a hugely positive influence but simply cannot be arsed because they're too busy chasing accolades and building their own careers making up problems...