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@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:26 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

SLEEP DYSFUNCTION IN ME/CFS "Since developing ME/CFS I require more sleep/rest because the constant ME/CFS symptoms take their toll. Sleep/rest is essential along with pacing to try and keep ME/CFS from worsening. Unfortunately sleep is not always restorative because, even if I have slept well, I still wake up feeling unrefreshed and generally below par. This is awful because the combination of ongoing ME/CFS symptoms plus this "hangover" feeling due to poor sleep quality means that you are battling ME/CFS on two fronts." RESEAR.C, UK INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:03 PM

New from Australia

Clinical Symptomatology, Cognition & Psychosocial Wellbeing in Adolescents With Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#MEcfs #PwME #CFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome

ABSTRACT Aim Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling illness that frequently begins in adolescence, yet adolescents with ME/CFS remain an under-researched population. We aimed to characterise the cognitive and psychosocial wellbeing of adolescents with ME/CFS relative to normative benchmarks and unaffected age-peers. Methods Adolescents with mild-to-moderate ME/CFS (n = 25) and healthy controls (n = 25) aged 10–19 years were recruited in Melbourne, Australia. Each completed a set of clinical questionnaires and cognitive assessments to assess ME/CFS symptomatology, school functioning, psychosocial wellbeing and cognition. Their caregivers also completed questionnaires regarding their psychosocial wellbeing and everyday executive functioning. Results Adolescents with ME/CFS showed significantly reduced information processing speed, though other measures of intellectual functioning did not differ consistently between groups. The ME/CFS group also reported significantly poorer sleep, quality of life and higher levels of anxiety and depression. Caregivers further identified significant attention and working memory concerns in the ME/CFS group, but reported no differences in internalising behaviours between groups. Conclusion Adolescents with ME/CFS experience substantial psychosocial and physical burden because of their illness. Cognitive difficulties in ME/CFS may reflect inefficiencies in information processing speed and fluctuating symptom burden. Discrepancies between adolescent self-report and caregiver ratings underscore the importance of inclusive perspectives in ME/CFS management. These findings support the need for flexible, paced educational and clinical accommodations and for further research into the dynamic cognitive profile of adolescents with ME/CFS across a more representative population.
@cfscounselling.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 4:36 PM

#YomKippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in Judaism. The #CFS team wishes an easy fast to all those who observe.

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@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 4:33 PM

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Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS "I have moderately severe ME so am mostly bed bound. Assuming that this is a baseline normal, the sleep disturbance makes the pain, cognitive issues and low mood more intense. And not being able to get away from those sensations during extended periods of sleep is especially cruel. Also as I am trying to get enough sleep it is difficult to get up during normal hours as by the time I have properly fallen asleep and had a decent amount of sleep most of the day has gone. It makes attending appointments or having people who help out round the home can only come mid afternoon onwards." Response from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey RESEA,CH UK 3.3(3942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 4:19 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

SLEEP DYSFUNCTION IN ME/CFS "...It's its own special kind of torture to have the one thing you know would help ease your symptoms be so unattainable to you...." REM UK SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:32 PM

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Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS "Lowered mood. Poor concentration. Irascibility. Difficult to do anything as concentrating is exhausting, interacting with others is overwhelming." Response from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey 6114 R ESiEjAik C H SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:17 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

SLEEP DYSFUNCTION IN ME/CFS "Difficulty in falling and staying asleep. Waking multiple times a night. Falling asleep only to wake a few seconds or a few minutes later. This can happen a couple of dozen times. Feeling so tired you feel like you are going mad but your body won't let you sleep." RESEAC, INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 1:17 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

SLEEP DYSFUNCTION IN ME/CFS "I feel jet lagged and drained." MI UK SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:36 PM

People with ME/CFS are harmed not only by the disease itself, but also by the repeated demand to justify and defend their lived experience of the physical illness, and emotionally manage other people’s disbelief, finds paper by Sven Walter.

Read more: bit.ly/4h5GsH5

#mecfs #cfs #pwme

K Epistemic and affective injustice in ME/CFS Epistemic injustice When people with with ME/CFS describe their symptoms, they are all too often not believed, or medicine and society lack the right concepts to understand their experience. For example, for those with ME/CFS, symptoms worsen after exertion, but instead of being taken seriously, they may be wrongly told they are anxious, inactive, or not trying hard enough. r Affective injustice This is the harm done when a person's anger, grief, fear, or frustration is dismissed as inappropriate, exaggerated, or unreliable, rather than understood as a reasonable response to their situation. o Here, people with ME/CFS can be harmed not only when their symptoms are doubted, but also when their emotional responses to that doubt are judged or controlled by others. INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST. RESEARCH UK SCO36942 Walter S. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. (2026)
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:31 PM

Zoe Sirotiak – a person with ME/CFS, researcher, and physical therapist – has published a paper on how the societal expectation for people who are unwell to “get better” can create harm for people with chronic diseases, like ME/CFS.

Read more: bit.ly/4irwxOp

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CHow societal expectations of recovery an lead to harm for people with ME/CFS Zoe Sirotiak, who lives with ME/CFS and is also a researcher and physical therapist, wrote a paper about how the expectation that people with an illness should get better, return to their normal lives, or grow from the experience can be harmful to people with ME/CFS. Notably, this "myth of recovery" can: Exclude people who remain ill Wrongly Distract from suggest gaps in recovery is research, about attitude healthcare and or effort social support INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST. RESEARCH UK SC0.942 Sirotaik Z. Disability & Illness (2026)
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:08 PM

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Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS "I cannot sleep in the same bed as my partner. He disturbs me, I disturb him and then we are both miserable. I dread important events. I know that I will only be strong enough to attend that doctor's appointment, family wedding, birthday celebration if I get a good night's sleep. The pressure is unbearable and the disappointment heart breaking. Nothing I do makes any difference." Response from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey 141% RESEARCH UK SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:00 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

SLEEP DYSFUNCTION IN ME/CFS "Never feeling sleepy. Even when my eyes burn with tiredness, and my whole body hurts and is exhausted, it's like the switch in my brain that initiates sleep is broken...." Iea RE4ARCH UK SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:15 AM

Seven replicated genomic associations: of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome a biobank study

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Seven replicated genomic associations: of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome a biobank study — Slaughter et al "Using TarGene, we identified 176 SNPs associated with ME/CFS risk (FDR < 0.05) in the UKB1 discovery cohort, of which 15 reached genome-wide significance ( < 5 × 10−8). In the follow-up replication analysis, two associations replicated in the UKB2 cohort with a further five in the AoU cohort." Preprint | Thread
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 10:48 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

SLEEP DYSFUNCTION IN ME/CFS "...Even if I've slept 'well', the mornings are awful. It takes hours for me to be able to make my brain work, or find words, or reply to texts etc and I feel so tired and foggy. I can't do anything in the mornings which means I miss out on all sorts of things locally which only happen in the mornings..." ieN R E StrH SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 10:41 PM

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Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS "Mentally it drives me crazy at times. Like I want to just pull my brain out my head. I feel so tired but I also can't sleep...." Response from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey 611% RESEARCH SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 10:23 PM

#MEcfs #PwME #CFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome @cgatist.bsky.social

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER EVENT Professor Chris Ponting Lead scientist of the DecodeME project, sharing what ME/CFS genetics is revealing and where research is heading next. THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH PROUDLY ORGANISED BY ME Support Navigating ME/CFS and Long COVID Decoding ME: ME/CFS Genetics & Biomarker Studies •Could ME/CFS be diagnosed with a blood test? • Why ME/CFS genetics matters This talk will cover: • What genetics reveals about disease-relevant genes, cells and systems • Sequence ME & Long COVID: latest updates .Is ME/CFS one condition or many? • Q&A with Professor Ponting 24th September 2026 7 - 8pm (NZ time) Click to join here meet.google.com/mdq-sjcc-kyf About our Guest Speaker Chris Ponting is Chair of Medical Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh. He started research as an experimental particle physicist before transitioning via structural biophysics and computational genomics, into functional genomics and human disease genetics. Chris provided leadership in international genome sequencing projects and has published over 370 articles. He is Chief Investigator of the ongoing DecodeME project, which now includes the whole genome sequencing of 6,000 people with ME/CFS ("Sequence ME & Long Covid"). Learn more: edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/chris-ponting info@mesupport.org.nz www.mesupport.org.nz
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 9:36 PM

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Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS "My finances have been impacted because I now only work part time. The lack of sleep affects my concentration, focus and memory. I struggle to complete work in a timely manner and tasks take me much longer. There is no real work/life balance. I use my annual leave to sleep due to having insomnia. My annual leave is used for survival, not leisure." Response from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey 1111% RESEARCH UK SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 9:22 PM

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What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

What sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS feels like insomnia jet lagged torture feeling unrefreshed after sleep cannot sleep easily despite exhaustion fragmented sleep "tired but wired" unpredictable sleep patterns hypersomnia frustrating feeling hungover/drunk amplified symptoms lonely poisoned feeling like a zombie Recurring themes from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
@peoplespharmacy.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:47 PM

Medicine Keeps Failing the Fatigued: CFS, Long COVID and Long Vax www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/pro... via @peoplespharmacy

#CFS #chronicfatigue #LongCovid #LongVax #health

@tomkindlon.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:57 PM

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Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

Impact of sleep dysfunction in ME/CFS "...Being unable to sleep until the early hours of the morning feels very lonely. My symptoms are too unpredictable and severe to have a job." Response from ME Research UK Symptom Saturday Sleep Dysfunction Survey LIM RESEARCH SCO36942 INFORM. INFLUENCE. INVEST.
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