Melissa Sargaison

Specialist Physician ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia | Portfolio GP | hEDS Long Covid | SAS UCLH

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

I have joined with over 200 healthcare professionals to sign a letter to @wesstreeting today to highlight the need for urgent action to improve care for patients with ME and investment in NHS ME services @DHSCgovuk #ThereforME #pwME #WorldPatientSafetyDay

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@LNRailway Will services be back to normal by tonight?

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@LNRailway Will tickets be valid on Chiltern Railways Marylebone to Wendover route?

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

Some perspective…

If we doubled the capacity of UK hospitals, we still wouldn’t be at the level of the European average

This is a capacity issue, and any government failing to increase capacity is knowingly permitting corridor care and putting patients at risk

It’s not on us!

[Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK @CovidJusticeUK]

In 2 days, the Covid Inquiry will release its verdict on decision-making and political governance during the pandemic.

5 years since the start of the pandemic, it's important to remind ourselves of why we are here.

Their now follows a broadcast from a former Prime Minister.

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@TweetingCollins please add your name to this important EDM as my local MP

[ME Research UK @MEResearchUK]

Early Day Motion open for MPs signatures highlights weaknesses in the Delivery Plan for ME/CFS and " ... that the [Delivery] plan falls short of delivering the meaningful change urgently needed by people with ME/CFS..." https://t.co/wzQdUdtV4M

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@wesstreeting Why are resident doctors paid less than PAs Wes?

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

Chronic fatigue is not in your head, it's in your blood - experts - BBC News https://t.co/tqgSPgGk7c

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@SEDSConnective Will it be recorded?

[Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab]

Quite disheartening to return from 10 days working with some of the most important and relevant #MECFS and #LongCOVID researchers in the world and to read this drivel being allowed through from @bmj_latest. Let's be unambiguous about this: BMJ has 1/

https://t.co/1TUtC2wFSE

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

How can Radio 4 Today discuss the rise in disability benefits without any mention of the huge rise in Long Covid disability since 2020 including infected young people? Same in US and elsewhere.

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

#FundThePlan @wesstreeting @RachelReevesMP #ThereForME @ThereForME_UK

[Kyle @kylofone]

i'm a carer for my partner with very severe ME. we desperately and urgently need treatments and better care for people with ME, and the only way that's going to happen is with investment, so @wesstreeting @AshleyDalton_MP #FundThePlan

#ThereForME @ThereForME_UK

[Kyle @kylofone]

i'm a carer for my partner with very severe ME. we desperately and urgently need treatments and better care for people with ME, and the only way that's going to happen is with investment, so @wesstreeting @AshleyDalton_MP #FundThePlan

#ThereForME @ThereForME_UK

[Royal College of General Practitioners @rcgp]

Confirming our position that there is no role for Physician Associates in general practice – our Chair @KamilaRCGP submits letter to the Leng Review.

https://t.co/Lv0efzpsXU

#LengReview

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@Davemconte Breathing pattern disorder? Are you breathing with your upper chest rather than your diaphragm (deep belly breathing)?

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

@DannyDrinksWine Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench, first Bond girl (my auntie!)

[PoTS UK @UKPoTS]

💜🌟#PoTSAwarenessDay🌟💜

#PoTS is so much more than just a fast heart rate upon standing!

Quality of life can be equivalent to COPD and congestive heart failure.

Many patients are told that their physical symptoms are ‘all in their head’ and instead are given psychiatric labels of #anxiety & #depression.

Triggers: viruses, bacterial infection, pregnancy, surgery, a traumatic event, immunisation, hypermobility.

Symptoms: https://t.co/2WGSEiEfQc

Managing PoTS: https://t.co/9XsMi6d73v

Please view our website for further information: https://t.co/sdUwT94VhM

#MedTwitter #TeamGP #MECFS #LongCovid #postviral @DrSdeG @jtrebach @nursekelsey @WeCYPnurses @LWNurses @DrDerekConnolly @BinitaKane @Daltmann10

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. https://t.co/qVjkbiGQY3

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

The NHS and the government have been told to act to prevent future deaths from ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis) according to a new report from the coroner's office.

The coroner ruled in July that Maeve Boothby O'Neill died from malnutrition caused by severe ME.

[Melissa Sargaison @honingtons]

UK toddlers get nearly half their calories from ultra-processed food, study finds https://t.co/l4rZscOFAu

[PoTS UK @UKPoTS]

Today marks the start of #DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth = disorders of the autonomic nervous system, including #PoTS 💜

Triggers: viruses, bacterial infection, pregnancy, surgery, a traumatic event, immunisation.

Common co-morbidities: #LongCovid,
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (#MECFS),
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (#EDS),
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (#MCAS).

Please take the time to learn more on our website: https://t.co/cJRzSSjutu

#Medtwitter #TeamGP