Dr Keith Geraghty
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Research Fellow | Primary Care, Medical & Health Psychology | People-focused, evidence-based researcher & chartered psychologist |@FBMH_UoM, @PrimaryCareMcr
Joined September 2010
Lots of interesting findings in this paper - strikes me many people living with ME/CFS patients are seeking to control symptoms of immune activation and inflammation - some relief with alternative approaches and traditional meds like anti-histamine, but recovery uncertain -.
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RT @TimesONeill: the science around ME is at a tipping point, the government must fund further research⬇️.
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Discovery of signature patterns of molecules in the blood of ME patients may signify a turning point in diagnosis, typically made by ruling out other illnesses
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Well said Prof Ponting, there is no national strategy to fund ME and LongCovid research and we badly need one, and funders could set this up @The_MRC @NIHRresearch - yes some big grants have been given out post Covid, but we need a sustainable funding strategy, to do more.
Highlights from Prof Chris Ponting’s presentation to the joint APPG on ME & Long Covid: He made clear that graded exercise is harmful, and warned that despite rising numbers, there’s still no research strategy, no effective treatments, and almost no funding. #MECFS #LongCovid
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Great advice, no academics should be working alone and its not easy to be a clinician and do research and deal with constant disappointment. For myself personally, without my core inner drive to support people, i would have given up in my field years ago, and gone into the.
🎙️ ARC-GM Director, Professor Dame Nicky Cullum shares her journey from nurse to researcher, in this episode of Humans of Clinical Academia by @mcrcatalys . Watch or listen now 👇. Youtube: .Apple: Spotify:
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Recovery is possible, especially when you are almost recovered! We have to see the funny side sometimes!.
@ArlettePoolen @CoyneoftheRealm Professor Paul Garner doesn't believe in this palliative public message. Here a picture from his boot camp training, where he prepares himself to deal with surprise attacks from ME vigilates. 😉
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Just in case anyone thinks I am nihilistic - I have followed many people over many years on their ME/CFS journey, I have witnessed 2 make a substantial recovery, with extreme measures in one case, immune drugs and the like, took almost a decade in both cases, and there are many.
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He says 66% full recovered or improved in his Liverpool clinic nut #results were not great, - well 2/3rds of ME/CFS patients with 12 months clinic time would be outstanding, most likely would win a prize and be published in the BMJ. Sadly, the reported results dont match any I.
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Dr Miller's view that the PACE trial study had 'bad press' is inaccurate - papers I led, and co-authored, and a special edition in Jr of Health Psych by a host of authors showed major flaws, biases, and manipulations in PACE to promote CBT-GET for ME/CFS - rendering trial results.
Clip of Dr Miller speaking at an RSM webinar — making the claim that 1/3 of ME/CFS patients improve, 1/3 fully recover, and 1/3 don’t recover, with no data to support it. Miller was co-author of the recent (awful) BMJ opinion piece. Read @keithgeraghty’s thread for more context.
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intro to talk from Prof Garner: .Recovering from “Long Covid”: A Mind-Blowing Experience.I developed COVID-19 in March 2020, and from the outset was battered, utterly exhausted, experiencing extremes of emotion. The NHS website was hopeless, and ME/CFS charities convinced I.
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In his recent May talk, despite having no expertise in ME/CFS, Prof Garner says the @NICEComms Guidleines for ME updated 2021 with consultation with patients, clinicians, are shameful/wrong. He wants ME charities challenged - he says the medical establishment, which was himself
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Co-author to the above, retired Prof Paul Garner, who recovered from Long-Covid recovered Long-covid, asserts people living with severe ME need to change their beliefs and be more hopeful. He claimed he was severely ill with Long-Covid whilst diving in the Carribbean. I am sure.
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Dr Miller once said in a Royal Society of Medicine online seminar I attended, that in his Liverpool clinic 1/3rd of patients with ME/CFS got better, 1/3rd fully recovered and 1/3rd stayed the same or got worse. he had no data to back this up, and didnt match any data I know of.
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I would like to convey a message to anyone living with ME/CFS on this recognition day. Conducting research on ME/CFS and advocating for those who may feel unheard and unrecognized has been the most significant honour of my academic journey. The path has been lengthy and
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#Longcovid is a risk in both hospitalised and non-hospitalised patients whom contracted Sars-Cov19; so I think we can let go of claims about Long-Covid is psychosomatic because it appears more common in non-hospitalised groups - the evidence here is its in.
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Nature Communications - Estimating the risk of long COVID is challenging because many of its symptoms are associated with other conditions. Here, the authors conduct a systematic review and...
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RT @acbontempo: 📚 Hot off the press! Our study, published today in @APA_Journals Psychological Bulletin, is a systematic review of 151 qual….
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wonderful poster from immuno-engineer scientist showing progression of lyme disease and movement into tissues like reproductive organs, yet ofcourse in UK drs like Dr OSullivan think lyme disease is psychosomatic, or doesnt exist at all. The US is leading the way in ME, LongCovid.
My group is at #IMMUNOLOGY2025 presenting our research. For those of you following along from home I want to share 1 min videos of each presenting their posters. @PaigeSHansen did an incredible job here presenting her about Lyme disease and gynepathologies.
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Tip - you can use the play function in the App to listen, rather than having to read all text, both options there, I go into a bit of depth re OSullivan claims, it took me a fair while to listen to a number of podcasts and writings. I highlight the harmful dogma of claiming drs.
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Where to start? Dr. Suzanne OSullivan’s books & ideas on overdiagnosis in medicine
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RT @RorPreston: A reminder that ME/CFS has one of the lowest qualities of life of any disease
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Please consider supporting Dr Tuller to continue doing this work - funding keeps academics going - and we need as many people focusing on ME/CFS/LongCovid as we can get. Wishing him well with his funding!.
Berkeley's crowdfunding for Trial By Error has been in a slow period but has now reached 50% of the goal, with almost 250 donations. Still a ways to go! .
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