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Niko Suvisto

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Life on hold by severe #MECFS, currently 99% bedbound 🛌 Documenting my life like it is now, advocacy through photography 📷 📍Finland nikosuvisto.com

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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#pwME high time there was mandatory education on #ME/CFS for all patient facing NHS staff. Please sign and share!
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Severe & Very Severe ME Research Registry has been created. It gives people with severe and very severe ME from Germany, Austria, & Switzerland the opportunity to participate in research through home visits severe-me-registry.de #SevereME #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #VerySevereME #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
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Severe & Very Severe ME Research Registry
Das Severe and Very Severe ME Research Registry verbindet ME Schwer- und Schwerstbetroffene mit biomedizinischer, häuslicher Forschung.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“We’ve had wasted decades in which huge numbers of patients have been abused, mistreated and their very horrible condition made even worse by medicine.” George Monbiot talking about the PACE trial, graded exercise therapy (GET) and CBT as treatments for #MECFS.
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most insane thing about this #MECFS scandal, beyond all the suffering and neglect, is that it costs hundreds of times more in economic losses every year than it would to fund the research that could eventually decrease this burden. The degree of short-sightedness involved is astounding.
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Conclusion of: "Journal of Psychosomatic Research Publishes First-Person Account of “Cure” with the Lightning Process" by David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social virology.ws/2026/09/25/t... #MEcfs #LongCovid #PwME #CFS 1/
For every Lightning Process recovery story, there is a parallel story of someone failing to get better, or getting much, much worse after attempting to follow the program for days, weeks, even months. Has the journal sought to publish any of these negative accounts as a response? Or are only positive examples regarded as having enough evidentiary value to be accepted for publication in the JPR?

The journal seems to. have gone off the rails with this one.
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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I too share this frustration. He mentions Maeve in the article but doesn't spell out she starved to death due to NHS refusal to give appropriate nutritional support. Nor does he call out that in the 5 years since she died in 2021, at least 10 other people have undergone the exact same torture.
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Firstname Lastname #FuckTrump @notunpackedyet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#MEcfs #pwME #LongCovid I'm not saying this initiative is the answer to what Monbiot describes, but I feel happier knowing that potential legal action is being considered. They are close to their stretch target now - not long to go!! www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice...
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NHS care for ME now
Campaigning for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) to be medically managed safely, to protect families from permanent disability or death from neglect of the illness.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Firstname Lastname #FuckTrump @notunpackedyet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#MEcfs folks, they're so close to £23k - still not their stretch target, but close. I've just put in another £250, I can't afford more right now. If you can add a few quid, it all helps. May come to nothing but, personally, I feel better knowing that this work is happening. #SevereME
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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New update from Karen Gordon's dad. www.change.org/p/save-karen...
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Karen update: 3 years on Karen STILL fears for her life due to NHS failings.
Photo: 28th of April 2026 - Karen in hospital with TPN Hello Everyone Karen has now been in Conquest hospital in East Sussex for 2 years and 9 months. On the 15th of September it was 3 years since we started this petition. When we started the petition, Karen was at home suffering from malnutrition and dehydration, very thin and becoming thinner. This was because East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (…
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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"a massive response" in under 24 hours. This is an indication of the level of unmet need from people too unwell to do more than write an email to a journalist whose remit is not, actually, human health. @england.nhs.uk is due for abolition April 2027. Countless people are made more unwell meantime.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sorry not to be reply to everyone who responded to my info request about #ME/CFS treatment y'day. Totally overwhelmed by utterly horrific stories. Now busy pulling it all together. And starting to see that there's a whole other story to be written (one day) about capital and chronic conditions. 1/2
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A persuasive statement from Sarah Boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social about the apparent necessity of legal action such as #JusticeForME to help overcome the decades of inaction/stonewalling and to 'keep the bastards honest' (a phrase used in Australian politics). www.crowdjustice.com/case/justice...
"Why we are no further on than before Maeve died makes me feel I have been lied to by everybody I thought I could respect. Unlike the many other families facing what we went through, I now have nothing left to lose. They do have everything to hope for but it is a matter of fact that legal action has been the only remedy for this extremely vulnerable group. Without it, the PACE trial would not have been exposed for the fraud it was [2] [3] [4]. Without their families insisting on the inquests into the deaths of Sophia Mirza [5] and Merryn Crofts[6], the fact that medical mismanagement of ME routinely kills young people would not be known. In the light of so much evidence, the time for crowdfunding legal action has come. Knowing how we tried everything else first, I fully endorse and support #JusticeForME."

[1] Care Act (2014); Mental Capacity Act (2005); Mental Health Act (1983); Equality Act (2010); Human Rights Act (1998)

[2] Wilshire, C., Kindlon, T., Matthees, A., & McGrath, S. (2016) https://doi.org/10.1080/21641846.2017.1259724

[3] Wilshire, C.E., Kindlon, T., Courtney, R., Matthees, A., Tuller, D., Geraghty, K., Levin, B. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0218-3

[4] Valerie Eliot Smith (2015) https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2015/01/20/the-secret-files-unwrapped-part-i-the-importance-of-fair-and-accurate-records/

[5] Brighton Coroners Court, 13 June 2006

[6] Rochdale Coroners Court, 19 May 2018
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"On this page you will find ongoing ME/CFS clinical trials looking for participants" All currently look like they are in the US except the Open Medicine Foundation Study ME registry which is international ammes.org/clinical-tri... #MEcfs #PwME #CFS #LongCovid
Clinical Trials
On this page you will find ongoing ME/CFS clinical trials looking for participants. For more ongoing clinical trials as well as completed clinical trials go to Clinicaltrials.gov

You can read about the latest resources for investigating the causes and mechanisms of ME/CFS here: New resources for large-scale ME/CFS research

Be sure to check the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine for their ongoing trials.

See the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai for their ongoing trials.

See Solve’s list of clinical trials for ongoing trials.

Stanford University is recruiting for a number of ongoing research studies.

Also see this google document for a long list of ongoing Long Covid trials: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A_KYwsDR6_vzF8hqZTMhFan56Vzw-Gno/view
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bluesky is not properly showing me all my replies I posted to @tomkindlon.bsky.social about #Pacing for #MECFS so I am creating a new thread and tagging him here. 🧵👇
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Alem Matthees @alemmatthees.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was forced to do absolutely nothing because of very severe #MECFS for 9 years, but at least now I can read and write a little. People with ME/CFS have their boundaries tested constantly just trying to live and we naturally do more when we are able to. Activity phobia in ME/CFS is BPS folklore.
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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Timms review is seeking to narrow/reduce PIP! Important: please complete this survey to help push back on this; benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/tell-us... In my case, PIP needs doubling/tripling as our NHS isn't clinically supporting my disease (ME/CFS).
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Tell us if you support PIP awards based on disability costs
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
But why would there be so much misinfo/disinfo swirling around debilitating illnesses like ME & Long Covid that affect millions of people? I dunno, maybe the corporations who should be on the hook are happy not having to pay up & manufacturing doubt is a great way to delay taking responsibility?
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m sure I can speak for the PACE Trial investigators [Peter White, Michael Sharpe & Trudie Chalder] when I say they love when the re-analyses are highlighted online. 😜 #MEcfs #PwME #CFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The legal battle to access the raw data that disproved the PACE trial was an enormous victory for ME patients. It showed that exercise & CBT are NOT legitimate treatments for ME & it led to harmful medical guidelines in the US, the UK, & around the world being overturned. #GreatestMEdicalScandal
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
10 years today, after a David vs Goliath FOI legal battle that damaged Alem Mathees, White et al were forced to release data from PACETrial (that cost UK taxpayers £5M) showing graded exercise therapy & CBT didn’t lead to an increased recovery rate for CFS. Please remind the world #MEcfs #PwME #CFS
 Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome-a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT
Carolyn E Wilshire  1 , Tom Kindlon  2 , Robert Courtney  3 , Alem Matthees  4 , David Tuller  5 , Keith Geraghty  6 , Bruce Levin  7
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    PMID: 29562932 PMCID: PMC5863477 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-018-0218-3 

Abstract

Background: The PACE trial was a well-powered randomised trial designed to examine the efficacy of graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue syndrome. Reports concluded that both treatments were moderately effective, each leading to recovery in over a fifth of patients. However, the reported analyses did not consistently follow the procedures set out in the published protocol, and it is unclear whether the conclusions are fully justified by the evidence.

Methods: Here, we present results based on the original protocol-specified procedures. Data from a recent Freedom of Information request enabled us to closely approximate these procedures. We also evaluate the conclusions from the trial as a whole.
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FunkisHen @funkishen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This assessment is ghoulish, absolutely vile. "Hey, you can't afford to live and get care? Dying is free!"
Those experts also found that, even when access to assisted dying was restricted to those at the end of life or with a terminal illness, disabled people, older people, and particularly older disabled people, "may feel subtly pressured to end their lives prematurely due to attitudinal barriers as well as the lack of appropriate services and support".

Despite fears that extreme poverty could increase pressure on people to seek an assisted death, as has happened in Canada, the government's equality impact assessment instead concludes that the bill "may have a positive impact on those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by making assisted dying available without incurring cost".
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reminder that whenever a mass disabling public health disaster happens, a certain group of psychs will show up to say “it’s all in their heads.” Don’t believe them. samuelkronen.substack.com/p/nightingal...
Sir Wessely has a shady history of blaming vague psychological causes for verifiably physical diseases. He attributed Gulf War Illness (GWI) to "anxiety about chemical weapons," despite evidence pointing to exposure to toxic substances like sarin nerve gas. He attributed health issues from water contamination in Camelford, England in 1988 to psychological forces. The UK government formally apologized in 2013 for the contamination, acknowledging aluminum sulphate's role. In 2023, Wessely suggested the Iranian schoolgirl poisonings were a case of "mass sociogenic illness," and attributed post-9/11 health problems to fear of the physical environment, despite evidence that individuals were exposed to harmful particles and debris — causing disorders like airway problems, digestive issues, and cancers.
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 06/09/2026
Our statement in response to The Telegraph article: 'How having a disability became cool' Young women, named 'sickfluencers', are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend & entrenching a culture of economic inactivity.' by Poppy Coburn, featuring Suzanne O'Sullivan. #longcovid #pwME #POTS
It is disheartening & predictable to see Suzanne O’Sullivan once again given a platform to promote psychosomatic explanations for chronic illness — this time in a Telegraph article attacking disabled people as influenced by social media, identity and attention.

There is a fundamental problem with this framework: it creates a self-reinforcing evidential trap. If patients accept a psychosomatic explanation, it confirms the theory.

If they reject it, their distress is interpreted as evidence that they are psychologically invested in being ill.

If they seek support from other patients, that's “social reinforcement”.
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sarah boothby @swastrosarah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Justice4ME.uk donors
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Niko Suvisto @nikosuvisto.com · 06/09/2026
This is the sole reason I now have severe ME, and have spent years basically bedbound without any end in sight.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
5/ “And this leads to the third harm: the physical damage caused by the system’s response to the illness.” #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MEcfs
And this leads to the third harm: the physical damage caused by the system’s response to the illness.

When ME is not recognised as a serious biological disease, patients are often forced to exceed their limits. We have to spend our very limited energy proving our condition, attending procedures that are not adapted to our disability, fulfilling administrative and legal requirements, defending our access to social support, or repeatedly explaining our limitations.

For a person with ME, this effort is not harmless. It can worsen the disease itself.

This is the crucial point: patients with ME cannot wait for a cure before the harm stops.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA): “Patients with ME cannot wait for a cure before the harm stop” by Ona Albizu PhD www.efna.net/patients-wit... #MEcfs #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
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PATIENTS WITH ME CANNOT WAIT FOR A CURE BEFORE THE HARM STOPS – ONA ALBIZU
For many years, I have lived with moderate/severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). I was housebound and dependent on others for some basic activities of daily life. The disease itself has taken away many aspects of the life I once had. But the suffering caused by ME does not come only from the disease.
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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I struggle in describing ME/CFS to others. In this review of the film Unrest @gdlp.bsky.social (new-ish on Bluesky, worth a follow) does it very well, in describing Long Covid's banal boring depletion. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
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Unrest
Podcast Episode · The White Pube · February 25, 2024 · 21m
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Andrew Gifford @andrewgiffordphoto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Making a photo about boredom that isn't boring isn't easy for me. A welcome but tricky challenge. glass.photo/andrewgiffor... ALT: Colour photo of an adult while male and brown Staffie-ish dog sitting on sofa in living room with 'Benidorm' TV series title playing on TV
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Niko Suvisto @nikosuvisto.com · 06/09/2026
Yesterday. #Photography #MECFS #pwME
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Prof. Chris Ponting’s on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal #ME/CFS #pwME @cgatist.bsky.social
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Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal
The co-lead of the world’s largest ever genetic study into ME calls for a radical change in how society deals with the disease.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Long COVID is not a mystery anymore. The field is finally moving from “What is happening?” to “How do we fix it?” 🧬 A must-read Nature feature on where the science is heading: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #LongCovid
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When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes
Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“This is certainly the most extraordinary royal honour I’ve presented in all those years. So I’m quite moved by it. I found it quite shocking.” Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema after honouring Severe ME patient and advocate @anilvanderzee.bsky.social as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 30/08/2026
1) 🇳🇱 In the Netherlands, ME/CFS patient and advocate Anil Van Der Zee was appointed Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. It's an recognition of his outstanding contribution to society, a very high honour.
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pacing is the most effective but also expensive & hard to access of all ME “treatments” I’ve tried. (Not an endorsement of pacing as much as condemnation of a society that pushes people into hell w/ a “hope you’re rich enough to somehow survive without the ability to work or take care of yourself 😈”
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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Pacing is not a true treatment, but rather an attempt to limit further deterioration - and anything but wellness. It frequently means adopting the most severe restrictions to one’s ADLs to avoid further rolling #PEM and a lowering of your baseline. #PwME must sacrifice their quality of life in
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Firstname Lastname #FuckTrump @notunpackedyet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#MEcfs I don't bother to talk about this stuff on social media any more, coz it's a waste of text, nothing changes. But today I'm really feeling the amount of living and, moreover, creating/making change/solving problems that I've missed out on as a #pwME over the last 23 years I'll never get back.
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Anna - Please boost pinned tweet.🙏 @halcionandon.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
GP again begged my family/abusers to mask bc #Covid is slowing killing me & they still refused. Help me escape these arseholes. I can’t return so I need enough $ to be stable. DSP not much. #MutualAid #FDV #SevereMEWeek #SevereMEDay #SevereME @meactnet.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1619...
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### Urgent Appeal: Help Anna Escape Abuse – Time is Running Out!
🚨EMERGENCY: Anna's Life Hangs in the Balance – Act NOW to Rescue Her from Abuse and Neglect!
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Sarah @no1sarah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
On #SevereMEDay, I'm sharing Kornelia Paulsen's 'ME - How It Can Shrink One's World, Bit by Bit' We need recognition of severe and very severe states of ME. We need training for health workers, timely diagnosis, and provision of safe, specialist health care. We need funding for research.
Cartoon-style illustration, containing 5 panels:
1: 'Before M.E: a house, a plane, a parry, a gym, a workplace, mountains and trees
2: 'Mild M.E: a concrete-looking pedestal with a house and workplace on top. Beneath, rocks with PEM written on them.
3. 'Moderate M.E' the pedestal has shrunk to contain only a house
4. 'Severe M.E' the pedestal now contains only a bed
5. 'Very Severe M.E' the entire panel is black. There is nothing except the title text.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
RTHM Health: How to Manage and Treat Post-Exertional Malaise Dr. Bateman: "I had to talk about what PEM was in RECOVER. I was working in RECOVER clinical trials, and nobody had the concept of what PEM was, right? I had to, for all the people designing the trials...' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5z...
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How to Manage and Treat Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM)
YouTube video by RTHM Health
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Michiel @murtoz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It literally should be illegal to do #MECFS and #LongCovid research without being PEM aware. It endangers participants & renders results meaningless if you can't stratify by which participants experience PEM and which don't.
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have been asked for my opinion on an ME/CFS research proposal. I want to suggest an activity monitor or step counter as an outcome measure. Unfortunately budget isn’t huge so would need to be two figures in US$/€/£ per unit. Suggestions welcomed. #mecfs #pwme #cfs
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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone with #MECFS & #LongCovid deserves £compensation for harm, neglect, abandonment, and blocked research and treatments. Instead of healthcare we have gaslighting. It's a scandal. I would write more but waking up in pain and discomfort and a broken brain, every fecking day, dulls my eloquence.
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Alexis M. 🎃 @turnoftheshrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People picture life w/ #MECFS in whatever way is most comfortable for THEM. Even the kindest & most empathetic rearrange it in their minds to become more palatable. But whatever they imagine, reality is far worse. However hard they think it is, it’s much harder. And that is the vastest of chasms.
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Lawerne @lawerne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
2d ago was Severe ME Awareness Day. Yesterday was, too. So is today. Tomorrow again, & the day after we’ll feel it with full force, cuz by then our friend PEM has our full attention. For us, every day is #SevereMEAwarenessDay. We're waiting. We're waiting for help. Every fucking day! #mecfs
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
From @itsaliceella on IG (she is also on Threads at the same address) Today is Severe M.E. Awareness day. A day that makes me feel such heavy grief, not only for what my life could have been like if I hadn’t got sick at 14 #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #ChronicIllness #InvisibleIllnessAwareness
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Alexis M. 🎃 @turnoftheshrew.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It really is true w/ #MECFS that the sicker you are, the less help you get. You have to be physically stable enough to research, find doctors, attend appts, fire doctors & find new ones, source & titrate meds, reorganize your whole routine & environment. No one else will do it for you. #SevereMEDay
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Tom Parsons @tomparsons.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Today is Severe ME day. I never thought that I could get this sick and be receiving LESS medical care. I never thought following the advice of clinicians could leave me mostly bedbound. I never thought I would lose the whole world this way.
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