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Mice develop fibromyalgia-like pain after receiving gut microbiota from human patients McGill University-led research has discovered that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain, immune activation, metabolomic changes, and reduced skin innervation.

"McGill University-led research has discovered that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain, immune activation, metabolomic changes, and reduced skin innervation."

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/mv82c492

#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Fibromyalgia #Fibro

Me/cfs or fibro changes you so much that you wish you could find your new tribe but you have no energy to do so

“I would love to say it’s the fatigue but honestly it’s not”: Into Adulthood with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Screenshot is from the latest Science for ME weekly update

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#MEcfs #CFS

1) Good news: the European call on high-burden, under-researched conditions will likely be renewed in the 2025 work program of Horizon Europe.

#MECFS is prominently mentioned as an example.

I have to see my employers doctor tomorrow and the irony is I can't sleep. After 2 years of sleep, I was not expecting this problem. I'm terrified that I'll lose my job if I don't agree to go back in some capacity. #CFS #ME #LongCovid But if I don't go back soon, I'll die of poverty. Great options!

It's so nice to be back online again. That's definitely the last time I go to hospital for a day procedure when I'm severe. Just slept for 19 or 20 hours out of every 24 for months. Feeling a little better at last.

Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Physiology | American Physiological Society Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating multisystem disorder of unclear etiology that affects many individuals worldwide. One of its hallmark symptoms is prolonged fatigue following exertion, a feature also observed in long COVID, suggesting an underlying dysfunction in energy production in both conditions. Here, mitochondrial dysfunction and its potential pathogenetic role in these disorders are reviewed.

Reports of conditions resembling #ME/CFS began emerging in the early 20th century, describing sporadic cases of encephalomyelitis (likened to “abortive poliomyelitis”) with unclear origins following illnesses (7). Notably, one of the earliest diagnostic journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Friends or family who go to a gym, consider helping your me/cfs or fibromyalgia loved one with physical tasks instead...

Thanks for the messages about my starter pack. I've been in hospital for a few days so will reply when I've improved.

I've made a #CFS #ME #LongCovid starter pack for us newbies. go.bsky.app/FbLo7qc

I've made a #CFS #ME #LongCovid starter pack for us newbies. go.bsky.app/FbLo7qc

Thanks for the messages about my starter pack. I've been in hospital for a few days so will reply when I've improved.

a black and white photo of a button that says reset . ALT: a black and white photo of a button that says reset .

Here we go again... Any tips out there for a decent app for posting to multiple social media platforms in one go?

Text reads”Just had my disability hearing and it was frankly the most traumatic experience of my life idk why anyone would put themselves through this for no reason”

Text reads’Like it actually felt like I was being prosecuted for a crime that's how shameful these ppl made me feel and it's 100x worse than any of the medical gaslighting l've experienced recently’

Text reads ‘Just feels like a gut punch honestly I have issues that are so complicated for me to explain that it probably just sounds to outside observers that I'm bullshitting but I'm not. Like screaming in a nightmare and nothing coming out. Not even a tiny squeak. I'm in max suicidal mode rn‘

I just got these texts from a bed bound Long COVID friend who went through a traumatic experience at her SSDI hearing. It’s heartbreaking how dehumanizing this process is for people already struggling to survive. #SSDI #DisabilityRights #LongCOVID

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I know medical misogyny is a huge part of it but are there other reasons why the medical establishment have overwhelmingly ignored conditions like fibromyalgia and ME?
It’s bananas to me with how debilitating and widespread these conditions that research mostly ignores them. #NEISVoid

Done ☺️

Interesting. Thanks for the info 😊

Thanks ☺️

Covid Causes Much More than Brain Fog A mountain of evidence tells us that even mild Covid is bad for your brain.

When you see someone riling up teachers and parents, blaming phones (or whatever) for children's academic and intellectual struggles, you can share this. I've updated it. I tried to be as thorough as possible:
www.okdoomer.io/covid-brain-...

😂 Great. Thanks!

I'd like to learn more about the pros and cons of that.

Black and white photograph of a group of older women standing outside wearing heavy, patterned, traditional Irish shawls

Photograph of an older woman wearing a traditional Irish shawl sitting on a low stone wall next to a young boy

Firmly believe Ireland lost its way as a nation when we stopped wearing shawls that doubled as cosy blankets, and would like to propose a return to the wearable bed

You're added 😊

Yes, you're gone.

Nothing more than to one day find work I'm physically capable of doing.

It's so hard because unless I can do something consistently enough to make it into a job it's not really safe for me to try (both for my healths sake & the fact that disability can get revoked & I still won't be able to work)

go.bsky.app/FbLo7qc I've also made one if it helps anyone find each other.

Hi could I be added please?

It was clear from the moment I got sick at eighteen years and started seeing doctors in 2012 that something very strange was happening around this disease, and it was bigger than me. When that Infectious Disease specialist gave me that creepy grin and told me I had to 'deal with my demons' - without offering any path to doing so - it was clear that my suffering was being profoundly dishonored, that I was getting fucked in some larger impersonal way.

Instead of being given an ME diagnosis & warned about overexerting, I was told by my doctor to journal about my “childhood trauma.” When I asked, “what childhood trauma?” she double checked my chart & said “uhh, repressed trauma.”

#GreatestMEdicalScandal

www.samuelkronen.com/p/greatest-m...