"Similar symptoms, biological abnormalities underlie long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome"
"Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome are debilitating conditions with similar symptoms.
… very similar underlying biological abnormalities have been found in both conditions, abnormalities involving the brain, immune system, heart, lungs, gut, and energy metabolism."
Something worth noticing. At least we are keeping this dialogue going. Folks who dealt/are dealing with chronic #Lyme, other #VectorDiseases, or #mold biomes were gaslit for decades. And continue to be gaslit, as that sorry excuse for an article in Slate during the pandemic showed.
I have no greater fear than needing an ER and figuring out how to get an emergency treated, when mentioning history can produce infinite useless responses. :(
@KatKimbriel Yes, it's sad there's so much medical gaslighting. And there seems to be a hierarchy of illnesses that are deemed "real" (patients who deserve care/support/treatment) vs. patients who are treated like hypochondriacs.
Doctors need to listen to *all* their patients.
As I posted recently, absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence.
https://disabled.social/@ahimsa_pdx/110515975780297592
The ER can be a dangerous place for patients with "contested" illnesses.
@[email protected] This describes most of my medical history. Nothing that a patient experiences is deemed to be real to the doctor *unless* there is a lab test or something else measurable. Most doctors never learned that absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence. Only after 5 years of illness, after I had an abnormal tilt table test (objective evidence), did doctors start taking my illness seriously.
Ahimsa
Kat Kimbriel