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  • I have Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Key symptoms are flu like symptoms after overexertion. So if they recover in a few days/weeks but get it again after doing something strenuous like sports, work or maybe even intense emotions, that might be it.

    It is usually obtained after a viral infection. Epstein Barr Virus and Corona are especially known to do it. It is the mostliest (words escape me, loss of intelligence is also a symptom) thingy of Long Covid.

    There isn’t a test available yet to reliably diagnose it. But scientists are working on it. Every other month a new study is released showing significant differences between patients and healthy people. Until then it is usually diagnosed by excluding other illnesses and seeing the flu like symptoms after exertion.

    No known cure yet. Best treatment is aggressive pacing, ie resting after doing something strenuous. The insidious thing is that you usually don’t know when it’s too much because the symptoms manifest with a few hours to days delay.

    Hope we won’t have to greet you in !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !chronicillness@lemmy.world one day. This thing is a bitch.


  • Had a thought the other day that the antimatter in the early universe might have ended up in direct collapse black holes. Evidence seems to be mounting up that supermassive black holes come from the early universe. If that is true I find it logical that in the black holes one type of matter dominated randomly. And then there was a little bit more matter than antimatter left in the universe.

    The black holes shouldn’t care about the collected matter and antimatter annihilating. The energy won’t escape either way.

    i wish I had the energy to really think this through or see if there are any papers on that idea.