#MECFS

2025-06-18

New ME Research UK-funded study with Australian samples

Neurodevelopment Genes Encoding Olduvai Domains Link Myalgic Encephalomyelitis to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

mdpi.com/2075-4418/15/12/1542

@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Screenshot of abstract
Maggie Maybemaggiejk@zeroes.ca
2025-06-18

@donray They’re beautiful!! I currently have a jar of broccoli seeds on my kitchen table in the process of sprouting. I can’t grow vegetables because I live in an apartment in zone 5, but I can grow sprouts in a jar on my kitchen table so I do.

There’s something in broccoli that’s supposed to be very helpful for people with #MECFS.

Juchtijuchti
2025-06-18

Rutsche wohl endgültig in very severe ab. Habe gestern nach über drei Wochen zum ersten Mal geduscht. Bin heute komplett gecrasht. Kann kaum sprechen. Der ganze Körper ist bleischwer. Muss im Liegen essen.

Ich hab solche Angst.

Eleanor Reeseleanorrees@mas.to
2025-06-18

Minutes of the first All Party Parliamentary Group on ME and Long Covid last month:

appgme.co.uk/meetings/minutes-

"people should not fall into the trap of thinking this is historic"

#UKpol #LongCovid #MECFS

[excerpt from APPG minutes available at the link in post)

c)  Where are we now — Long Covid research — Prof Danny Altmann, Imperial College

DA discussed the ongoing impact of Long Covid and ME/CFS on millions of people in the UK, with associated annual economic drag running into billions. He emphasised the need to understand the pathophysiology of these conditions, which he believes can be addressed with proper research. 

DA made clear that the situation with Long Covid is not trivial or short term, and that people in his research cohort have been sick for several years, estimating about a third are getting by with adjustments to their lives, a third whose daily lives are even more impacted, and a third who are really not well and out of work. He referred to seeing many people with Long Covid who were previously fit and healthy but are now in wheelchairs because of the condition. 

He stated that people should not fall into the trap of thinking this is historic, highlighting the ongoing risk, even in a vaccinated population. He referred to the last ONS reporting period we have, stating there were 178,000 new cases of Long Covid over a four-month period, with people risking getting Long Covid with every Covid re-infection. DA highlighted the burden of Long Covid as being the same again as rheumatology or cardiology, but it is being ignored.
Fatigatio e.V.FatigatioeV
2025-06-18

"Daheim mit ME/CFS" – Vernissage in Oldenburg

Die vom Fatigatio e.V. initiierte Wanderausstellung zeigt stille & eindringliche Werke von Naturfotograf & Ornithologe Arend Heim, der mit schwerem lebt.

Eröffnung: 22.06.2025 um 15 Uhr
Ort: Werkstattfilm/KinOLaden Oldenburg
Anschließend Gespräche im Café sowie Kurzfilme über ME/CFS
Laufzeit: bis 03.08., sonntags 14–18 Uhr

In Kooperation mit Werkstattfilm/KinOLaden, VfB für Alle & der Faninitiative Oldenburg.

fatigatio.de/aktuelles/detail/

2025-06-18

Der Widerspruch meiner Frau gegen eine Schwerbeschädigung von nur 30 Prozent bei ärztlich bestätigtem #mecfs und Fibromyalgie wurde vom Landesamt für Soziales (was für ein unpassender Name) Rheinland-Pfalz zurückgewiesen. Ich bin wütend.

2025-06-18

Will be spending some hot days in #karlsruhe with our dog Axel while @mcfly will attend #gpn Looking for suggestions for nice shady places where we can go, preferably with possibilities to sit down from time to time because of my #LongCovid #mecfs #dogsofmastodon #wirehairedvizsla #gpn23

A bigger golden brown dog pictured from the shoulders up looking into the camera, he has floppy ears, a moustache and a beard
skryskry
2025-06-18

It's so good to see Dianna (Physics Girl) recovering finally. Such good news.

youtube.com/watch?v=vqeIeIcDHD0

Juchtijuchti
2025-06-17

Der Instagram-Account "ME/CFS Kinder" ist Teil einer Elterninitiative, die das "Leben" und Leid der Kinder mit zeigt. Bitte folgt dem Account und helft, auf die Situation der über 80.000 betroffenen Kinder und Jugendlichen in Deutschland aufmerksam zu machen.
instagram.com/kinder_mecfs?igs

2025-06-17

This evening I was at a queer Jamsession I really enjoyed it and could try out a banjolele a mini accordion and a synth I wanted to try for ages now I'm home and feel totally wiped out but it was worth it #mecfs #queermusician

Me standing in the doorway wearing a black glittery dress and a pentagram pendant with pink and black crystals.
2025-06-17

"What is ME/CFS?": 4-page factsheet created by members of the Science for ME Forum (February 2025)

s4me.info/docs/WhatIsMECFS-S4M

Takes a conservative approach e.g. with regard to prevalence.

@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Logo: Science for ME: Where science and ME/CFS community meet

 What is ME/CFS? 
Key points 
 ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) is an illness that has a substantial, often severe impact on people's lives and is usually long-term. 
 It affects about 1 in 250 people, including children. 
 Symptoms include feeling ill and exhausted, difficulty staying standing or sitting up, pain, and problems thinking or concentrating. 
 Physical or mental activity can be followed hours or days later by a long-lasting worsening of the illness. This is known as post-exertional malaise. 
 ME/CFS makes it difficult or impossible to keep a job, attend school, or have a social life. Some people with the illness are housebound or bedbound. 
 There is no known cause or effective treatment. Some people with ME/CFS improve over time, but others worsen. Full recovery is uncommon except in teens and children and in the early stages of the illness.

Heute mit 60mg Pyridostigmin, aufgeteilt auf 3x 20mg habe ich mich 2 Mal kurz schlafen gelegt, mittags und eben und ich glaube nicht, dass ich ohne hätte schlafen können.

Mittags, weil ich zu wenig geschlafen habe und eben, weil ich gebacken und gespült habe und danach erschöpft war.
Jetzt ist mir weder schwindelig, noch bin ich benommen, obwohl zwischendurch gar nicht so viel Zeit vergangen ist.

Es scheint wirklich was zu bringen.

#Kalymin #MECFS #Mestinon #Pyridostigmin

Mx. Luna Corbdencorbden@defcon.social
2025-06-17

"Robbing Peter to pay Paul" where "Peter" is your lack of energy and "Paul" is your lack of energy last week.

#MECFS #ChronicIllness

Barbara Wimmer - shroombabshroombab@chaos.social
2025-06-17

Am Tag nach den "sozialen Kontakten" (bei mir zu Hause, alle Besucher*innen kommen zu mir, zeitlich stark begrenzt) hab ich dann meistens trotzdem eine Art Kater, wie als hätte ich wilde Party gemacht bis 6h früh. (Klassischer "Crash-Crash" ist das aber keiner).

Was für ein wildes Leben ich mal führe, hätt ich mir nie gedacht. :) *Achtung, Ironie*

#mecfs #longcovid

2025-06-17

Late in 2024, Kathryn Vercillo of Threadstack and Create Me Free sent me some intriguing interview questions which I used as journaling prompts between liver infections. The interview is now online for all to read. #SciArt #embroidery #MECFS

substack.com/home/post/p-16574

Barbara Wimmer - shroombabshroombab@chaos.social
2025-06-17

Warum ich aktuell wenig schreibe hier? Ich versuche gerade wieder ein paar wenige "soziale Kontakte", offline, zu ermöglichen. Das geht mit #LongCovid #MECFS aber nur, wenn ich irgendwas aus meinem Energiebudget streiche.

Jen 🏳️‍⚧️jvw@musicians.today
2025-06-17

I finally have my rudder all sanded clean, and all the various petrochemicals and solvents to refinish it in such a way that it will last a few years at least.

Now I'm just waiting for a health window in which to do it.

Super frustrating. Sailing is my absolute favorite meditation, PT, and OT activities. I come back exhausted but blissed out, every time.

Soon, I hope.

#sailing #mecfs

Juchtijuchti
2025-06-17

Die, die mir schon länger folgen, wissen, dass ich mit 40 Jahren 8/23 schwer an erkrankt bin, inkl. , und (ME kommt selten allein). Aber nicht genug: Ich habe binnen weniger als einem Jahr eine CCI (craniozervikale Instabilität, instabile HWS) entwickelt, und auch der Rest meiner Wirbelsäule fällt sprichwörtlich auseinander. Gestern am Spätabend nun stolperte ich über eine aktuelle Studie und bin mir zu 100% sicher:
Ich gehöre zu Cluster 1:
1/ healthrising.org/blog/2025/06/

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