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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 7h

Yep.

And a great opportunity to improve clean air in schools, prepare for future threats, and showed we care for vulnerability in general, gone to the bin.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks, George 🙏

For anyone interested, I wrote a thread about how Wessely was wrong about Gulf War Illness, Camelford Poisonings & ill health following 9/11 being psychogenic.

He also used harassment as a distraction from criticism during a talk on GWI.

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Thread by @ABrokenBattery on Thread Reader App

@ABrokenBattery: 🧵Gulf War Syndrome & Simon Wessely "For 30 years they have been disowned, ignored and lied to by consecutive governments, with no positive answers to their questions about exposure to...

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 7h

How on earth is almost 2026 and this shit is about hospitalised patients from 2020/2021...

Do we have to wait 5 more years for looking at #pwME/LC with PEM (both pre & post covid)? And people with other sequalae?

Finding answers in science takes time, blablabla... this is just about 'doing it'!

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16h

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19.

"Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford were able to observe the damaging effects Covid-19 can have on the brain."

Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19

Damage to the brainstem - the brain's 'control center' - is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

www.news-medical.net

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 1d

💯 this ⤵️

Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social · 1d

In Germany, it is common now to call the severest form of LC ME/CFS. In the UK, we tend to talk about either LC or ME.

It would be very interesting to look at a cohort of LC patients - would this test be able to pick out those with PEM??

#LongCovid

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 1d

Have to confess, I often think that would be the fairest.

Which, knowing what I know about my own #ME, I reckon is the most devillish horrendous wish I've ever had in my entire life.

Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 1d

Whether in this lifetime or the next, I hope anyone who's ever doubted how badly people with ME/CFS want to get better gets to experience it for themselves.

I can't be all turn the other cheek about it. I hope they suffer firsthand and in their pain they'll find out just how wrong they were.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In the firing line, as ever, are the UK’s hundreds of thousands of ME/CFS patients. As a practitioner once remarked, “the bastards don’t want to get better”. If there is one characteristic all the ME/CFS patients I’ve come across have in common, it is a desperation to get better.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 1d

From France:

"Myological evaluation of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome".
All 22 had ME/CFS

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update

#MEcfs #LongCovid

Neuromuscular Disorders
Volume 53, Supplement, September 2025, 105492
Neuromuscular Disorders
29PMyological evaluation of patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome
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Henri Mondor University Hospital, Créteil, France
Available online 3 October 2025, Version of Record 3 October 2025.

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Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) is a highly multifaceted condition, mimicking myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in patients with the most prolonged evolution. Due to the frequency of muscle pain and exertion intolerance, these patients are often suspected of having a muscular disease. Here we present the results of the neuromuscular evaluation of patients with a clinically defined PACS. Twenty-two consecutive PACS patients (17F, 5M; median age 47 yrs) were included. All had at least one Covid-infection, confirmed by PCR, with mild respiratory symptoms, only one having required hospitalization and transfer to intensive care unit at acute stage. After a variable period between weeks to few months, patients developed chronic fatigue (duration > 6 months; n=22, 100%), post-exertional malaise (n=22, 100%), cognitive impairment including short-term memory loss or “brain fog” (n=22, 100%), muscle pain (n=18, 82%). No other specific neuromuscular clinical sign were found. 100% of patients fulfilled diagnostic criteria for ME/CSF: CDC1994/Fukuda, International Consensus Criteria 2011, US Inst Medicine 2015, UK National Institute for health and Care Excellence, 2021. Nineteen (86%) didn’t show any recovery period after the onset of symptoms. ENMG examination was normal, without myogenic pattern; CK levels were normal; and muscle MRI available in f…

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 1d

In a proof-of-concept study, EpiSwitch®CFS blood test (3D DNA folding patterns) identified severe ME/CFS (vs healthy controls) with 96% accuracy. buff.ly/EyzOq11

Immune and inflammation pathways (e.g. IL-2, TNF) are key.

Larger studies on other inflammatory diseases are needed.

#medsky #MECFS 😷

Man with black hair is sleeping in bed with a blue pillow and comforter. Next to him is a hand with a blue glove holding up a blood sample. EpiSwitch CFS test.

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. In my head, with everything that is coming up, #MS and #ME share same model. Different 'nervous component/cell' affected, different key aab, some different specificities logically, but exactly same 'engrenage'.

Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 1d

I have #MS - central nervous system damage which may be triggered by an immune response to the EBV virus in those with a genetic predisposition (or other predisposers)

I’ve always believed ME/CFS is a serious condition also caused by a viral inflammatory response in the brain/spinal cord.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social · 1d

The research used to claim reliability of a ME/CFS blood test has important limitations, shown here.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Three possible confounders in a study proposing an ME/CFS blood test : sex/age, batch and inactivity/severity. Better designed studies by independent researchers are necessary.

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 1d

Man, imagine if every country, every major newspaper in the world, had a @georgemonbiot.bsky.social...

George, you are a true gem for all #pwME around the world. Let's hope more journalists join you, you are an inspiration. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

#GreatestMEdicalScandal
#pwME

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, medical science is beginning to get a handle on the very complex physiological basis of this disease. On the other hand, we can expect the greatest medical scandal (so far) of the 21st Century – the mass mistreatment and neglect of ME/CFS sufferers – to continue.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To rub salt into their wounds, these patients have watched as the man many see as their tormentor-in-chief has been garlanded with honours, including a knighthood. His latest appointment is yet another blow.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 2d

If only...

I wished he was indeed the most hated doctor. He would be largely discredited, his professional abuses shamed and legally sanctioned.

Instead, he is being awarded honours, his ideas are still echoed with impunity and he is invited to participate in medical decision-making.

👎

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ThereForME @thereforme.bsky.social · 2d

From Lib Dem conference to Washington DC - today's #ThereForME campaign update shares an update from advocacy in the UK and overseas.

Read on to find out more 👇

(Link in next post)

Campaign update 26. This week: What's happening in Westminster? Long Covid advocacy overseas. New #ThereForME Substack post.

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 2d

for months it was the simple sound of the elevator through the wall... 🙄 I mean, everything is so surreal, so far-fetched, so uncompatible with even 1% of what we consider 'normal'...

Anyway, best of luck from me and my exploded head indeed... 🥲🤯

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 2d

Same. Used to party hard, lights, music...

Hypersensitivity is hell. I've ended up triggered for whole 4 days bc a reflection from the sun entering unexpectedly the room from someone opening a windown from building across... or from 1 single unexpected flash in a screen...

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UK Charity Invest in ME Research @investinmeresearch.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to Mike Harley for another outstanding effort to raise funds to facilitate biomedical research into #MECFS
at the Skopje Marathon 2025
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
#philanthropy #research #CofEforME #InvestinMEresearch @mikeseumarathons.bsky.social

Mike Harley - EU Marathons for ME - SKopje October 2025

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Verena Hackl @verhac.bsky.social · 8d

"Oldie" but goldie: einfach sehr guter Text über #PEM, #MECFS, #LongCovid, etc. von Ed Yong.

Re-Leseempfehlung.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Fatigue Can Shatter a Person

Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 4d

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"But the silent story for most of us is that we “decided to get better” but couldn’t; started doing a little more each day but had a relapse; tried yet another treatment and found it wanting; and then, having lost everything, built the best life we could from the ruins."

#ChronicFatigueSyndrome

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 4d

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"But media coverage such as this can have repercussions for the wider ME community, both in terms of the influence on public perception of the illness, and also the emotional impact on individuals living with it."

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 4d

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"But it’s not difficult to see how the emphasis of such stories could be misconstrued by a casual reader unfamiliar with the reality of ME; or why such publicity might be of concern to a patient population routinely told to pull itself together, try harder, & get outside more."
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 4d

🧵
"The Trouble With Recovery Stories" by Naomi Whittingham @naomiwhitt.bsky.social (with severe ME for decades)

alifehidden.com/2024/11/05/r...

An excellent, articulate article discussing “Recovery Stories” and the complex impressions and impacts they bring about

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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The Trouble With Recovery Stories
Posted on 5th Nov 2024

Photo of somebody up a tall mountain near the edge

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 4d

On LBC, callers Ann and Annie told Natasha Devon that the rise in long-term sickness is linked to long Covid — and compared the lack of support to what people with #MECFS have faced for decades (10 mins)

youtu.be/BoVpKmsTNFY?...

Natasha Devon - Long-term sickness call in

YouTube video by Broken Battery

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Didier @medidier.bsky.social · 4d

like I can't move, just awakening suddenly and I can swear someone just knocked for real - not a dream- violently on the door, or 'big bang' somewhere... 😮‍💨😵‍💫 fucking illness. Sending hugs back and let's see where the gear goes next as you say, whatever will be, one day at a time... 💪💪🫂🫂

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