#arthritis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #arthritis, aggregated by home.social.
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New blog post on living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and moving to biologics as a treatment:
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CW: Links between conditions: LC, ME/CFS, PTSD, RA, MS
"The findings suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as ME), long Covid, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS) may be driven by common underlying mechanisms. ...
"The study found that genes linked to each illness were feeding into the same major biological systems - including immune and inflammatory signalling, mitochondrial energy production, metabolic regulation, stress-response mechanisms and neuroendocrine signalling."
Interesting!
And also a bit comical to suggest that ME/CFS and Long Covid have "largely been viewed as separate disorders", when people with ME/CFS had been saying "hey watch out, this seems similar" since practically the minute LC was identified, or even before!
True about the other three conditions, though. I don't think I've seen _those_ linked (to each other or to the first two), or not commonly at any rate.
Thanks to @trendless for the link.
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The work on the DC - quite descriptive - is published. Find it here: https://mastodon.social/@tinyspheresof/109681388538649498
The T cell work has not been published. I think I have a mostly complete manuscript that I could put on bioRXv. I'll discuss it with my former PI.
The short version: #IL6 and #TNF were very abundant, and were in the way of Treg-Teff interaction, #Teff not reacting to #Treg suppression anymore. Possibly partly explaining why drugs against these work in #arthritis. -
As we said at the shelter: A “good” cat/dog is often a tired and/or sick cat/dog
I’d much rather need to up how much I play with Studs than have him be “good” because he’s in too much pain to get into trouble.
Thank goodness for CBD.