cfs

I started working from home following a heart attack and open heart surgery at the end of 2018. 2019 was one complication after another, but I was finally cleared to return to the office in 2020 - just in time to go back home for covid....

A while ago I moved in with my parents to relieve my wife from having to juggle two kids, the household, her elderly parents, her work and me. And my parents have this fancy digital thermostat I can control from my smartphone....

So the biggest thing I had to figured out was all my allegeries. Fragrance is the biggest one, its in everything and I can’t be around it at all. It took 6 months to get rid of all of it and is a constant effort to keep out of my living space. I have met multiple other people who has this same allergy. Cutting gluten out of my...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14342827...

Functional Neurological Disorder aka Dissociative neurological symptom disorder aka Conversion Disorder?...

I hate this. I can’t even pet my cat as much as she deserves.

A university in Hannover, Germany is planning a study on the effects of apharesis on Long Covid patients with fatigue....

We report that overexpression of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family Member 3 (WASF3), here identified in a 38-y-old woman suffering from long-standing fatigue and exercise intolerance, can disrupt mitochondrial respiratory supercomplex formation and is associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Increased expression...

Only back then it was absurdist humour.

Has anyone here tried antivirals?

Roughly translated, the immune system keeps fighting. They found the proteins persisting in the blood of Long Covid patients. They lead to blood clots and other stuff. Most importantly this can be tested for....

We don't have to wake up at 3 am though.

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/10021761...

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/mecfs/t/891917...

Three Long Covid cases could be healed with corona antibodies....

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/mecfs/t/856180...

I’m too brain fogged to really understand it, but it seems like the ME/CFS research is also having good results.

I’ve started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer again and 30 minutes in, in the first episode, Cordelia is telling some friends about her bedridden mom whom she suspects to suffer from CFS, whereas her doctor suspects the Epstein-Barr virus....

I wonder if this is also relevant for general ME/CFS. Sounds logical to me.

To get notified of posts from Reddit and so that I don’t have to check back there I requested for !cfs and !covidlonghaulers to be created....