Full title: Understanding symptom clusters, diagnosis and healthcare experiences in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID: a cross-sectional survey in the UK
Maedeh Mansoubi, Thomas Richards, Martine Ainsworth-Wells, Russell Fleming, Phaedra Leveridge, Charles...
nb also a letter from Charles Shepherd.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1882994/
eta:
I think it was in response to this
Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic, 1992, Sharpe et al. | Science for ME
https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/08/vumedi-dr-shepherd-talks-about-the-overlaps-between-long-covid-and-me-cfs-in-a-video-aimed-at-healthcare-professionals/
VuMedi (where the video features) describes the platform as “a video education platform for doctors. Over 450,000 doctors use VuMedi to...
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JAMA -"Advances in understanding the Pathophysiology of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" by Anthony Komaroff
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discussion thread
disease progression
epidemiology
gatekeeping
gender ratio
incidence
long covid
me association
me/cfs
prevalence
recovery rates
An old thread, but the idea of a post-mortem biobank is often discussed on the forum, and this study was linked in one such discussion.
https://jcp.bmj.com/content/63/11/1032
Not open-access
Sci-hub link: https://sci-hub.wf/10.1136/jcp.2010.082032
Abstract
Background
Myalgic...
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The British ME Association are requesting people to send them accounts of their experiences of health and social care as part of a planned campaign looking at good practice and the new NICE guidelines to roll out in ME Awareness Week in May and beyond. See...
Contibutions from Dr Sarah Jarvis, Charles Shepherd (MEA), Sonia Chowdhury(AfME), Leonard Jason.
although they do say it's not just 'tiredness' they do seem to focus on it!
at least they didn't ask Michael Sharpe for his opinion..
full article here...
this was a few days ago
questions and Dr Shepherds answers here
https://community.scope.org.uk/discussion/62274/q-a-about-chronic-fatigue-or-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-me-cfs-with-dr-charles-shepherd
Transcript:
BBC Today Programme March 2019 (clip)
An Oxford professor has stopped his work on chronic fatigue syndrome also known as ME because he says he's faced a barrage of online abuse from patients and campaigners.
Some context… (slide)
Over 80 Charities are opposed to his treatments...
[I found this of interest, as my ME was triggered by a Hepatitis B vaccination that I was required to have as a student nurse.]
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/02/pregnancy-m-e-and-vaccination-concerns-with-dr-charles-shepherd-15-february-2019/
“Dear ME Association,
I’m 7 months’...
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One of the ME Association’s recent research initiatives was to critically examine the theoretical basis and clinical application of the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) in ME/CFS.
We felt that a closer examination of these therapies was vital...
(I'm not on Facebook so I don't know any more than this)
Source: ME Association
Date: August 31, 2018
URL:
ME/CFS Workshop | Clinical Learning 2 | Thursday 4 October 4.00-5.00pm
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Key messages for primary care on the diagnosis and...
This is all I know so far - anyone know more?
Programme: Helen Blaby
Station: BBC Radio Northampton
Datum: August 1, 2018
Time: 12:00
WebRadio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06cdjnv
Item: Charles Shepherd and a phone-in
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7mjqk
from about 1:08-1:30
Actor Kirsty Strain talks with Stephen Jardine about having long-term ME, and Charles Shepherd contributes a little.
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Bed-bound and in unimaginable pain, watching my...
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