#LearnFromME on #WorldMEday

2022 is set to be another year of a global health crisis that has caused a wave of post-viral disease, specifically the collection of symptoms known as “Long COVID” which overlap with ME.

For decades people with ME have been unheard, but Long COVID has helped to put a spotlight on our common post-viral disease.

#LearnFromME will work to bring the knowledge people with ME and health professionals working in this field have to the wider world when we all come together to shine a light on ME on World ME Day

Why learn from ME? our experiences can help each other

People with ME are experts in our own illness and experience. By providing platforms for our voices across the world, we can share that collective expertise.

Most of us have a strong desire to be involved in research. BUT there is a woeful lack of investment in ME research across the globe.

It is only through research, which chooses to #LearnFromME, that we can find treatments and one day a cure for ME and related illnesses like Long COVID.

Why learn from ME? our experiences can help healthcare professionals to help us

And now in Wales health and social care professionals have a NICE guideline on diagnosis and management which acknowledges the nature and severity of ME.  WAMES will continue to run our #ImplementNICEmecfs campaign alongside the #LearnFromME campaign.

Why learn from ME? to help others with post-viral illness

Post-viral illness is not new. We could learn so much about Long COVID if we recognised the knowledge and experience we already have from other post-viral illnesses like ME!

More information

More information will be released in the run up to World ME Day on May 12th so that you can take action to help the world #LearnFromME.

Find out more about the campaign by following WAMES’ social media and visiting the World ME Day website.