The dedication in my next book. Seems more relevant now than when I wrote it. The Certainty Ilusion: What You Don't Know and Why It Matters is out January 7: https://t.co/mKrOWUFGfk

LIVESTREAM #LivedExperience #VulvalPain Join us 7pm BST Tues 24th Sept as Resident Dr Harriet Reed shares her #RecoveryStory & fundraiser helping us continue providing patient & clinician resources FBK https://t.co/hSdXmSvI5g #PatientJourney #vaginismus #vulvodynia #VPSLive 1/3

🧐YOUR ANSWERS PLEASE! We know average time to diagnosis for someone with vulval pain condition is ~2 years in the UK. We want to know how long it takes to get a GP appointment in the first place. 👇🏽Let us know what the wait time is at your surgery in the comments #gpappointment

Are you a physiotherapist? Will you attend @IASPpain #IASP2024? Would you like to join the informal #globalPT #IASP2024 #pub meeting? Date: Monday 5 August Time: after the welcome reception (from around 20.30 until ???… 😉) Place: to be announced Reply on this post or send me

📝Please consider completing and/or sharing this questionnaire from @jilly_bond. Her research is is vital for future #PelvicPain treatment possibilities #PelvicPainResearch #VulvalPainResearch #vulvodynia

CLINICIAN BURNOUT is alarming •US 45% of practitioners report burnout •230,000 left profession •NHS England 170,000 left or planning to leave ❗Don't be another statistic ➡️Join us at THRIVE or Survive on June 5th https://t.co/61lNaeki7j #Healthcare #Burnout #THRIVEorSurvive

For men living with #PelvicPain #prostatitis #CPPS global support group run by brilliant @MyPelvisMatters starts this Friday 10th May. Sign up by Thursday to connect with other men and be heard in this supportive community.

🔊🔎You can shape future research if you live w #vulvodynia /are a clinician/researcher working in this area Our previous Livestream guest researcher Athina Lountzi wants to hear from you. Scan QR code/email athina.zoi.lountzi@stir.ac.uk #vestibulodynia  #VulvalPain #research

When the evidence challenges our current way of thinking and practicing, it's not challenging our identity as a person, but sometimes we take it that way and cling hard to defend/protect it. We can either put our head down and keep going, or we can integrate it and shift a little

(4/4) Grateful for progress, but many still suffer. Thanks to colleagues & @long_covid. We need research, education, support. Gaslighting is real. Let's stop pretending Long Covid has gone away. WE NEED ACTION NOW! #LongCovidAwarenessDay

(3/4) Sheer exhaustion and fatigue. Had 49 troubling symptoms with multi-organ issues. Asthma, diabetes, high cholesterol now. Had to educate clinicians, info wasn't getting out fast enough. Saw many clinician colleagues struggling with LC or #burnout.

(2/4) Inflammatory response led to pain in joints and muscles. "Too much" led to extreme fatigue, flu-like symptoms. #PEM #PESE Cognitive issues made simple tasks daunting. Took over a year to think clearly. FOUR YEARS to read without symptoms. Episodes of hemiplegic migraine.

Me at #LongCovid worst: (1/4) Dropping to PT hours, drained savings on road to slow recovery. Many aren't so privileged. Resting heartrate over 120; trying to walk shot it up over 200. Wore shades & earplugs indoors for photosensitivity & hyperacusis. Hair loss, rashes, pustules.

Never *ever ever* select a PT or healthcare provider based on how they LOOK. ❌❌ Select them based on knowledge, expertise, listening skills + personal connection💥 Gym rat ≠ skilled clinician 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 Any a-hole can lift weights 🙄 #MedTwitter #pttwitter #meded

This piece is, as the kids say, a banger. Thanks, @GeorgeMonbiot.

🌐 March is #EndometriosisAwarenessMonth! 🎗️ Join our webinar on "Endometriosis & Pain” on March 14th at 12:30 CET. Secure your spot now: https://t.co/Qv1XhtsoCS

Brilliant Journal Club last week - the recording is on the website now! All about patient responses to the word catastrophising & we were lucky to have a co-author attend! As ever the discussions are not recorded, but they were fab. Interesting no clinicians attended this time!

📣 🚨Fri. 15th is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Those with #LongCovid have to confront it every day. It has implications worldwide, including on health services & economies. When will Governments #ConfrontLongCovid? Let’s make some noise and RT far and wide! #LongCovidAwareness

Are you a clinician/researcher with interest in changing lives of people living with #pain? Help keep the invaluable @SanDiegoSummit open. Purchase $75 replay &/or donate by 14th March 2024!

A nurse referred to me as the tech (twice) after I introduced myself as the resident. She later “apologized” stating that normally doctors are dressed nicely, which is why she didn’t recognize me (I’m in blue figs scrubs and a patagonia) aka what every resident wears 🙃