@drbelkr
🇦🇺 South Australia 🏳️🌈 Queer 👩⚕️ Retired doctor - ME/CFS & POTS advocate (Doctors with M.E. associate + Australian POTS foundation member) 🌏 Climate crisis advocate (Climate and Health Alliance member + Doctors for the Environment Australia member)
🇦🇺 2025 ME/CFS study
⚠️ENERGY IMPAIRMENT: "...mitochondrial dysfunction and energy stress."
⚠️IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION/⬆️INFECTION RISK
"fatigue and susceptibility to infection."
⚠️VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION
"...reduce overall blood flow...
...restricts brain-blood flow...brain fog and post-exertional malaise."
Gametes do not define biological sex. They're not even one of the several aspects that DO contribute to biological sex.
People fear/judge/exclude/hate what they don't know, even 1-2% of the population...
Biological sex IS NOT BINARY (male/female). I'm sick of ignorant people speaking before educating themselves.
✳️'Every Body' - Netflix intersex doco, available until the 7th in AUS!✳️
www.netflix.com/us/title/817...
AEC disclosures prove Labor and the Libs are simply rival factions of the same captured political class.
Their job is to protect the profits of the rich and powerful. If that means you can't afford rent, so be it.
We can't keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different result.
New options could arrive in the not-too-distant future. We’re within touching distance of the first fertility-controlling, nonpermanent male contraceptive, which could enter pharmacies within five to 10 years.
It's useful for patients/family as well as health professionals. Feel free to PM me your email and I'll send it to you.
PM me your email and I'll send it through like I did for the others 🙂
90s ME/CFS cognitive behavioural hypothesis: patients falsely believe they're sick = activity avoidance = deconditioning = symptoms
CBT & graded exercise therapy: fix false belief & return to activity = reconditioning = recovery
BUT they don't work
ME/CFS patients ARE sick
#MECFS
#organicillness
Ok, done, let's hope that works
PM me your email and I'll send it through for you.
That's weird because someone else in the comments msgd me yday and it worked 🤔
PM me your email and I'll send it through for you.
@colleensteckel.bsky.social yep that 2012 Primer is in the full pdf amongst other guidelines.
Yep that 2012 Primer is in the full pdf amongst other guidelines.
Hi Deidre, I'm new to this app but don't think I can post or PM the ME/CFS pdf to you. If you PM me with your email address I can email it to you if you like.
Pg1 of my ME/CFS for health professionals pdf. Key points, educational videos, guidelines, appropriate diagnostic criteria (inc mandatory post-exertional malaise), clinician & patient resources.
✳️Full 7pg pdf available if you're interested.
#MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome