2020

Preventing Post-Exertional Malaise – Pacing and Energy Management in ME/CFS An online talk by Staci Stevens and Dr Mark Van Ness of the Workwell Foundation for Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group 2:30pm Thursday 22nd October More info here...

Split from Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, Long Covid ******** https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3871 Editorials Neuropsychiatric complications of covid-19 BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3871 (Published 13 October 2020) Matthew Butler, NIHR academic clinical...

Thread split from News from New Zealand and the Pacific Islands *********** The talk is now available on Youtube (haven't watched it yet).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10753-020-01356-0 Original Article Published: 09 October 2020 Amitriptyline Downregulates Chronic Inflammatory Response to Biomaterial in Mice

Free full text: http://www.sagpj.co.za/index.php/SAGPJ/article/view/41 South African General Practitioner 2020; 1(4):132-134 https://doi.org/10.36303/SAGP.2020.1.4.0041 Sick and tired of COVID-19: long haulers and post viral (fatigue) syndromes Kim Outhoff The full article is available at...

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-69778-001

Cytokine profiling of extracellular vesicles isolated from plasma in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: a pilot study Ludovic Giloteaux, Adam O'Neal, Jesús Castro-Marrero, Susan M. Levine & Maureen R. Hanson Background Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)...

Open access, https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjhp.12395

Pubmed link only, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32073803/

Reductions in Cerebral Blood Flow Can Be Provoked by Sitting in Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/4/394

Full title: Ethical Psychotherapeutic Management of Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms: The Risk of Misdiagnosis and Harm Diane O'Leary and Keith Geraghty https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198817338.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198817338-e-72 Edited to break...

Full title: Mitochondria-derived methylmalonic acid, a surrogate biomarker of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress, predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the general population Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231720309460

Paywall, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-020-00506-w Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41584-020-00506-w

Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09593985.2020.1830454 Sci hub, unable to access

Moderator note: Use this thread to discuss the possibility of an ME/CFS or ME/CFS-like illness following Covid-19. Initial posts have been moved from the Coronavirus - world-wide spread and control thread. (Up to post #840 so far) *************** It's interesting that in the 2003 SARS...

Open access, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.22.308171v1.full-text

Full title: BMC family practice integrated GP care for patients with persistent physical symptoms: feasibility cluster randomised trial [Worth noting that the intended study title was probably "Integrated GP care for patients with persistent physical symptoms: feasibility cluster randomised...

Article about the new diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia Dagens Medisin had an article about the new diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, with comments from Egil Fors who have been involved in some ME/CFS research at NTNU...

Open access, https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011216.pub2/full So-called alternative medicine for post-caesarean pain? A Cochrane review https://edzardernst.com/2020/10/so-called-alternative-medicine-for-post-caesarean-pain-a-cochrane-review/