Dr. Mark Guthridge talks about ME/CFS on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio

Interview starts at 2 hours 5 minutes:

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/rhiannapatrick/rhianna-patrick/11831752

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I've managed to listen to part of this and it sounds pretty good.

FYI, no transcript available yet (that I can find) but it may be that one will be provided later.

 

Very good indeed.
Just apart from the "Australian disease" of talking about chronic fatigue.
They were trying hard though. Quite a few times they went Chronic Fatigue...[oops, almost forgot...]... Syndrome.
But apart from that, more interviews of this sort, please.

 

@2:12:20 He says crashes last for days. I would have preferred it if he mentioned crashes that last for months, years or even indefinitely as in my case. Specifically the lowering of the PEM threshold. On the positive side he did mention that exercise makes patients worse (in contrast to other diseases).

 

If we had our way, the disease name would be reduced to the shortest and easiest pronounced vowel.

 

At one point he says that ME/CFS is:
2x as common as epilepsy
3x as common as Parkinson's disease
4x as common as MS
40x as common as motor neuron disease (aka ALS, "Lou Gehrig's Disease")

...which are pretty interesting statistics that I've not really heard presented all at once before.

 

From my now dimly remembered linguist days that would have to be the vowel 'a' (pronounced as in mama or dada) - which would put us at the top of any alphabetical list. Maybe that'd work better at getting us the attention of funding decision makers than anything else we've tried so far...

 

Ha, this drove me nuts when I was there. Patients, clinicians, researchers--everyone called it "chronic fatigue." "Syndrome" was almost never used, ME was almost never used, ME/CFS pretty rarely.

 

It now says "audio has expired".

 

Something's wrong. I wrote her a message.......

 

This is the reply:

As the programme is on Summer with fill in presenters and producers who can be in any part of the country, podcasts are not uploaded during this time.

The only audio available is the full programme which expires after 7days (so each Sunday, the latest programme is uploaded automatically).

I hope this helps,

Regards,

Rhianna (who is still in holidays until mid-Feb)"

Beats me! My brain is mush atm.

 

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Trial by Error: An Australian Radio Interview with Melbourne's Dr. Mark Guthridge

Contains a transcription of the interview.