huh, neat.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

huh, neat. Scientists figured out a way to test for epigenetic changes to DNA folding to detect ME/CFS and believe they can use the same technique to develop a test for long covid as well https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102205021.htm

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

chronic fatigue syndrome is one of those illnesses that is currently hard to diagnose because it requires doctors to believe their patients reports about their symptoms, and they have to sort out whether or not it's that or one of the other things with overlapping symptoms they don't believe are real

[joshjers@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva Yeppppp

My cousin has it and good god I would not wish it on anyone

...and it legitimately took years (a decade)? before he was able to even find a doctor that believed it was a thing

[photex@icosahedron.website]

@aeva I got diagnosed at 20 but my parents told me it was full of shit and that it was a fake disease to sell prescriptions or something.

I’ve been coming to the conclusion lately that this was not likely the only diagnosis I’ve been given in my life that my parents refused to acknowledge.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@JoshJers it's amazing how much work the healthcare system heaps on you when you're least able to handle it

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@photex it's amazing how bad people want to believe in the idea of "lazy people" despite it lacking any scientific basis what so ever