Something Chronic
@somethingchronic.bsky.social
Mostly bedbound by severe #ME/CFS #POTS #EDS #MCAS + more. Chronically hopeful for better days. Determined to fight against injustice so people with ME + Long Covid are treated with the same belief, respect + kindness as any other serious physical illness
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Will ‘reframing my beliefs’ cure the muscle atrophy that #severeME has caused? Will it help me get downstairs in my home again after 2 years? Will it help Karen Gordon & @whitneydafoe.bsky.social? Why ignore 1000s of studies with irrefutable evidence #MECFS is physiological? @tessamunt.bsky.social
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Tell 10 friends. Get it to a million.
Just because it's reached the 100,000 threshold, doesn't mean anything will happen.
So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
So keep signing and sharing, because we need to show MPs that there's a huge demand.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Tell 10 friends. Get it to a million.
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So excited to share our new article on energy limiting conditions (ELC) and energy impairment in @ijdsj.bsky.social with Anna Ruddock and Ana Be. Open access www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So excited to share our new article on energy limiting conditions (ELC) and energy impairment in @ijdsj.bsky.social with Anna Ruddock and Ana Be. Open access www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
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I didn't mean to post at weekends, but this one wrote me.
Pls share & subscribe.
Today's post "Just. Don't. Do. It. Labour's first cut is the deepest and the sickest bear the burden AGAIN"
"Stop and listen now, for once in your collective lives" open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
Pls share & subscribe.
Today's post "Just. Don't. Do. It. Labour's first cut is the deepest and the sickest bear the burden AGAIN"
"Stop and listen now, for once in your collective lives" open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
Just. Don't. Do. It.
Labour's first cut is the deepest. And the sickest bear the burden AGAIN
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I didn't mean to post at weekends, but this one wrote me.
Pls share & subscribe.
Today's post "Just. Don't. Do. It. Labour's first cut is the deepest and the sickest bear the burden AGAIN"
"Stop and listen now, for once in your collective lives" open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
Pls share & subscribe.
Today's post "Just. Don't. Do. It. Labour's first cut is the deepest and the sickest bear the burden AGAIN"
"Stop and listen now, for once in your collective lives" open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
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Wow! it took Musk 13 days to slowly cut off my new Substack. From a great initial buzz, traffic slowly dried up, even when I got huge RTs. I knew for sure yesterday when a good friend with 50k followers RTd 2 of my posts & nothing. Usually it goes crazy :(
Without Twitter I'll REALLY need u all here
Without Twitter I'll REALLY need u all here
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Wow! it took Musk 13 days to slowly cut off my new Substack. From a great initial buzz, traffic slowly dried up, even when I got huge RTs. I knew for sure yesterday when a good friend with 50k followers RTd 2 of my posts & nothing. Usually it goes crazy :(
Without Twitter I'll REALLY need u all here
Without Twitter I'll REALLY need u all here
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Slashing and burning sickness benefits
@RachelReevesMP
What SHOULd they do then? We made it so they can't work OR retire?? It was our Governments that did this.
Today's post : Frank's Story Pls read, RT and subscribe for free. open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
@RachelReevesMP
What SHOULd they do then? We made it so they can't work OR retire?? It was our Governments that did this.
Today's post : Frank's Story Pls read, RT and subscribe for free. open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
Frank's Story
"His body's too old for working', his body's too young to look like this"
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Slashing and burning sickness benefits
@RachelReevesMP
What SHOULd they do then? We made it so they can't work OR retire?? It was our Governments that did this.
Today's post : Frank's Story Pls read, RT and subscribe for free. open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
@RachelReevesMP
What SHOULd they do then? We made it so they can't work OR retire?? It was our Governments that did this.
Today's post : Frank's Story Pls read, RT and subscribe for free. open.substack.com/pub/undercla...
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Enough is enough. Bravo to Swedish publishers who have filed a criminal complaint against Facebook and Meta over scam adverts which steal journalists' identities and mis-use trusted media brands pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/fa...
News publishers file criminal complaint against Mark Zuckerberg over scam ads
Facebook scam ads prompt criminal complaintt rom publishers' group against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
pressgazette.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Enough is enough. Bravo to Swedish publishers who have filed a criminal complaint against Facebook and Meta over scam adverts which steal journalists' identities and mis-use trusted media brands pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/fa...
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Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
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Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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The first feature-length documentary on ME/CFS & #LongCOVID, “What Doesn’t Kill You…” is crowd-funding.
I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
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I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
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The First Feature-Length Documentary on ME/CFS and Long COVID (Now Crowdfunding)
YouTube video by What Doesn't Kill You
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The first feature-length documentary on ME/CFS & #LongCOVID, “What Doesn’t Kill You…” is crowd-funding.
I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
1/
I believe video and in particular documentaries can be a powerful way to get messages across & am impressed so far so have donated for a second time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rS...
#MEcfs
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Clip: Julie Heath shares the impact of becoming a carer for her husband and two children with #MECFS, and how she’s become their advocate because they don’t have the energy to do things like speak to their GP. ME/CFS doesn’t just affect individuals it affects whole families.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Clip: Julie Heath shares the impact of becoming a carer for her husband and two children with #MECFS, and how she’s become their advocate because they don’t have the energy to do things like speak to their GP. ME/CFS doesn’t just affect individuals it affects whole families.
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bingo. Rose has hit the nail on the head!!!!
My hot take if you post and pimp and promote alt text but not mask up for us at the VERY least at healthcare facility.
You are still a rampant abelist
99.9% of ya can handle wearing one when in a HC facility ...
My hot take if you post and pimp and promote alt text but not mask up for us at the VERY least at healthcare facility.
You are still a rampant abelist
99.9% of ya can handle wearing one when in a HC facility ...
February 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
bingo. Rose has hit the nail on the head!!!!
My hot take if you post and pimp and promote alt text but not mask up for us at the VERY least at healthcare facility.
You are still a rampant abelist
99.9% of ya can handle wearing one when in a HC facility ...
My hot take if you post and pimp and promote alt text but not mask up for us at the VERY least at healthcare facility.
You are still a rampant abelist
99.9% of ya can handle wearing one when in a HC facility ...
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US press release:
"Underlying cause of Gulf War illness confirmed in UTSW study"
"Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness ( #GWI )"
www.newswise.com/articles/und...
Full paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Underlying cause of Gulf War illness confirmed in UTSW study"
"Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness ( #GWI )"
www.newswise.com/articles/und...
Full paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
US press release:
"Underlying cause of Gulf War illness confirmed in UTSW study"
"Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness ( #GWI )"
www.newswise.com/articles/und...
Full paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Underlying cause of Gulf War illness confirmed in UTSW study"
"Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness ( #GWI )"
www.newswise.com/articles/und...
Full paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In case anyone else needs this today: the best advice I ever read about #MECFS was “no one else is going to lie in that bed for you.” The decisions, fragile routine, the totally altered perspective on life— they don’t have to make sense to anyone else, bc they don’t have to live w/ the consequences.
April 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In case anyone else needs this today: the best advice I ever read about #MECFS was “no one else is going to lie in that bed for you.” The decisions, fragile routine, the totally altered perspective on life— they don’t have to make sense to anyone else, bc they don’t have to live w/ the consequences.
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Donation link for “What Doesn’t Kill You”:
gofundme.com/f/the-first-...
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid
Donation link for “What Doesn’t Kill You”:
gofundme.com/f/the-first-...
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Donation link for “What Doesn’t Kill You”:
gofundme.com/f/the-first-...
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid
Donation link for “What Doesn’t Kill You”:
gofundme.com/f/the-first-...
#SevereME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #LongCovid
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Autopsies of 18 foetuses showed that "SARS-CoV-2 can be widely distributed in fetal organs through vertical transmission". In addition immune and DNA damage were found in the infected organs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 in fetal organs via intraamniotic infection - Nature Communications
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy may result in maternal and fetal complications. Here, the authors analyze 18 fetuses following maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify distribution in fet...
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Autopsies of 18 foetuses showed that "SARS-CoV-2 can be widely distributed in fetal organs through vertical transmission". In addition immune and DNA damage were found in the infected organs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
5) Disability support:
People with severe ME/CFS also express "overwhelming concern over their financial insecurity and uncertain future. Receiving disability assistance becomes a matter of survival."
People with severe ME/CFS also express "overwhelming concern over their financial insecurity and uncertain future. Receiving disability assistance becomes a matter of survival."
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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1) New sociology paper on severe ME/CFS. The authors analyzed 342 messages on Twitter/X to get insights into the daily reality of people with severe ME/CFS.
They highlight the feeling of being trapped by the illness, profound isolation and longing for the outside world.
They highlight the feeling of being trapped by the illness, profound isolation and longing for the outside world.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
1) New sociology paper on severe ME/CFS. The authors analyzed 342 messages on Twitter/X to get insights into the daily reality of people with severe ME/CFS.
They highlight the feeling of being trapped by the illness, profound isolation and longing for the outside world.
They highlight the feeling of being trapped by the illness, profound isolation and longing for the outside world.
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A former acquaintance of mine - also an Old Etonian - who had never expressed a political sentiment in the ten years I'd known him said much those same words to me ca 2001.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
I'll never forget the line from Cameron where he ( reportedly ) said he wanted to be PM because he thought he'd be
"quite good at it"
Quite how we prevent this unwarranted entitlement is beyond me.
"quite good at it"
Quite how we prevent this unwarranted entitlement is beyond me.
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A former acquaintance of mine - also an Old Etonian - who had never expressed a political sentiment in the ten years I'd known him said much those same words to me ca 2001.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
He viewed it as "something to do" because he didn't really have to work like the rest of us.
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Sometimes I forget that normies don’t understand the “possible permanent decline” part. Yes, getting sick after basic tasks is terrible enough. But we want to LIVE. If we could assuredly recover we’d do ALL THE THINGS, get sick, recover & repeat. That alone would be life-changing. #MECFS #LongCovid
People with #MECFS, and many with #LongCOVID experience post-exertional malaise: a flare of symptoms after activity. The response is disproportionate to the activity and can lead to permanent drops in functional capacity.
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/s0025-6196(23)00402-0/fulltext
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/s0025-6196(23)00402-0/fulltext
Diagnosis and Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic neurologic
disease often preceded by infection. There has been increased interest in ME/CFS recently
because of its significant...
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sometimes I forget that normies don’t understand the “possible permanent decline” part. Yes, getting sick after basic tasks is terrible enough. But we want to LIVE. If we could assuredly recover we’d do ALL THE THINGS, get sick, recover & repeat. That alone would be life-changing. #MECFS #LongCovid
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🔴The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution – down from a high of £225 million in 2021
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution – down from a high of £225 million in 2021
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution - down from a high of £225 million in 2021
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🔴The Government Has Cut Air Pollution Funds to Councils by 99% as Illegal Levels of Pollution Shorten Lives
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution – down from a high of £225 million in 2021
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
New data shows just £1.5 million was given to councils in England in the past year to tackle air pollution – down from a high of £225 million in 2021
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/t...
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Post-exertional malaise is the cardinal symptom of #ME.
In people with #severeME, even chewing food can trigger post-exertional malaise.
#UKMAW2025
#EndMalnutritionInME
In people with #severeME, even chewing food can trigger post-exertional malaise.
#UKMAW2025
#EndMalnutritionInME
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Post-exertional malaise is the cardinal symptom of #ME.
In people with #severeME, even chewing food can trigger post-exertional malaise.
#UKMAW2025
#EndMalnutritionInME
In people with #severeME, even chewing food can trigger post-exertional malaise.
#UKMAW2025
#EndMalnutritionInME
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Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
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It's not "less" though. NHS provision is positively harmful for #pwME (unless you are a psych patient wrongly diagnosed) because there is 0 patient safety advice in:
NG206;
every UK ME org;
NHS e-Learning;
ME specialist docs in Harley Street;
DHSC FDP.
Patient safety in ME costs £0
NG206;
every UK ME org;
NHS e-Learning;
ME specialist docs in Harley Street;
DHSC FDP.
Patient safety in ME costs £0
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It's not "less" though. NHS provision is positively harmful for #pwME (unless you are a psych patient wrongly diagnosed) because there is 0 patient safety advice in:
NG206;
every UK ME org;
NHS e-Learning;
ME specialist docs in Harley Street;
DHSC FDP.
Patient safety in ME costs £0
NG206;
every UK ME org;
NHS e-Learning;
ME specialist docs in Harley Street;
DHSC FDP.
Patient safety in ME costs £0