BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Glandular Fever / M.E. discussion

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008ps8

From today's show.

At 1:10:00 onwards there is a discussion on glandular fever that soon touches on M.E. The discussion is actually quite good - the expert (Dr Sarah Jarvis) describes the risk of glandular fever developing into M.E. and describes M.E. as a profound exhaustion that doesn't get better with rest but can get worse with doing too much.

 

Listened to this. did a 'quick' transcript

quite a difference to the usual message....... push through...GET

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1176114231856570368

 

Thanks for doing a transcript so speedily again @Sly Saint. There was mor Q and A with Sarah J after the song. Nearly all v good.

 

Although of course it's the fatigue which isn't substantially alleviated by rest, rather than the ME itself, which is rather what their phrasing suggests ...

 

I've taken to calling it exhaustion. I'm exhausted all the time. It never changes. But depending on any number of things I may be more or less tired as well.

And of course you're right. The ME is the ME. It doesn't respond to anything except perhaps briefly and then back to usual.

 

I was pleased to hear this discussion.
However I was concerned that the issue of EBV being a latent virus seemed to be avoided. That some of her oversimplifications might not have been that helpful?