Jennie Jacques

@jenniejacques1.bsky.social

Donate to Justice For ME here if you can please 🙏 💙🦋 https://shorturl.at/x1Vyx

Usually I focus on science 🧬 & the NEW! Today it’s Nightingale 🎈🎁 👩‍⚕️ #meawarenessday “The Charge of the Light Brigade” “Someone had blunder’d.” PACE Trial led ME patients into medicine’s version of the valley of death. Except blunder implies no one saw the bodies falling.

Thank you so much for continuing to support us ME people with such clear, strong and compassionate reporting. I have been bedridden for 32 years, my daughter for 39 years. We have had no treatment offered, simply left to rot in our beds. We spent a lot of money on ‘alternative’ approaches, no help

Thanks, George 🙏 For anyone interested, I wrote a thread about how Wessely was wrong about Gulf War Illness, Camelford Poisonings & ill health following 9/11 being psychogenic. He also used harassment as a distraction from criticism during a talk on GWI. threadreaderapp.com/thread/15273...

Thread by @ABrokenBattery on Thread Reader App

@ABrokenBattery: 🧵Gulf War Syndrome & Simon Wessely "For 30 years they have been disowned, ignored and lied to by consecutive governments, with no positive answers to their questions about exposure to...

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They desperately want to be able to work, to socialise, to experience all the other joys of life. But because the condition is so poorly understood, they have been repeatedly treated as if they were “malingerers” or “hysterics”. Which suits the government just fine.

In the firing line, as ever, are the UK’s hundreds of thousands of ME/CFS patients. As a practitioner once remarked, “the bastards don’t want to get better”. If there is one characteristic all the ME/CFS patients I’ve come across have in common, it is a desperation to get better.

Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

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The third NHS ME/cfs e-Learning module was published last week, shortly after #Justice4ME launched. Written by Dr David Strain, only those with a government, NHS or academic work email address have access. Why? Who did Strain consult with? learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/712...

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Physios For ME@physiosforme.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Pleased to have assisted @thecsp.bsky.social to write this piece for their magazine, which goes out to all chartered physiotherapists in the UK.

Today is #SevereMEDay - a day to recognise and honour the people living with the most devastating forms of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). We are deeply grateful to those with Severe ME who took part in the DecodeME study. Your contribution is vital.

Thank you to the thousands of people with Severe ME who have taken the time and energy to participate in DecodeME #SevereMEDay