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  1. NelliePledge

    PEM: Swimming compared to other activities?

    I enjoy being in water, floating, cool or warm if I try swimming it is less successful than walking despite the float effect helping take my weight. in fact I have had cramp in my calf on more than one occasion when having a little swim, which I don’t get from walking
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    Fingernail defects?

    I’ve got vertical ridges but I’m late 50s and i assume it’s because Im getting older
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    Importance of fatigue and its measurement in chronic liver disease - Gerber et al Jul 28 2019

    Not the first time the terminology is twisted to have surreptitious psychosomatic interpretation
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    U.K. trial Rehabilitation exercise and psychological support after Covid 19 infection (REGAIN) Warwick University

    There’s constructive engagement and then there’s having a meeting for the sake of appearances let’s hope these researchers are just slow on further communicating and not stonewalling.
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    George Monbiot on ME/CFS, PACE, BPS and Long Covid

    Just to say if anyone doesn’t normally do social media there are many positive comments in response to George Monbiot’s posts. but also as ever the usual mix of people who are advocating various “approaches” to ME including Lightning Process GET and so on. And the cynics and nasty people as...
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    “it’s a medical condition … you need to support as much as possible”: a qualitative analysis of teachers’ experiences of CFS/ME, Brigden et al, 2021

    Is there a link for the paper @John Mac Based on the extract It’s positive that most of these 11 teachers were able to recognise the impact of ME on their pupils. Concluding that Clinical services should consider collaborating with teachers is hardly cutting edge thinking.
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    The Cambridge Lectures: Demystifying ME/CFS, March 2020, deferred to January 2021 on Zoom

    This looks like a positive development. Hopefully similar local GP groups across the U.K. will also engage with the CMRC medical education group.
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    Open Medicine Foundation (OMF)

    But in reality any conclusions we’d be attempting to draw are speculative and I’m sceptical that there’s any benefit from discussion of other people’s symptoms based on articles.
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    Open Medicine Foundation (OMF)

    https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/side-effects-aripiprazole#3-7 insomnia is a very common side effect We would only be speculating on whether that is the case for Whitney.
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Professor Christopher Norton, York Uni History of Art https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/norton/
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    The use of the labels ME, CFS, ME/CFS

    https://www.me-international.org/international-meicc-orgs.html
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    Investigating reduced tolerance to alcohol in ME?

    It’s useful to know that a symptom is not a one off so it’s a step up from an individual account. Obviously large scale surveys such as Action for ME/ME Association in the U.K. with thousands of participants have more use as evidence of issues being widespread.
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    Investigating reduced tolerance to alcohol in ME?

    Looks like the total respondents = 41
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    Sensations of fizzing or buzzing, or paraesthesia in limbs

    I know some people have these tremors regularly. I have only had them a handful of times. I had a realisation that I was visiting friends in Provence my neuropathic pain was aggravated by heat so I took pregabalin for a couple of weeks which I don’t normally take. I checked the side effects...
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    What is an engaging, informative, short, accurate description for ME/CFS?

    Yes a lot to be said for trying to tailor your message to the audience @Colin
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