In terms of clinical significance, nil of note. Two potentially useful findings that need to be followed up are the IgG mouse transfer and the...
This case series reports on use of ECT in four people with difficulty swallowing (one case also mentions gastroparesis and severe weight loss)....
Letter from Whitney Dafoe to Karen's hospital. Largely echoes the points people have been making on the Maeve inquest thread....
Spread huge libellous lies, quietly issue a correction two years later.
This seems to be the essence of the typical Reddit-level doctor understanding of ME/CFS and similar conditions. Some BPS researchers would go a...
There is no extreme fatigue, widespread pain or any other symptom. It's all just misperceptions of normal bodily sensations that everyone gets....
Fear avoidance. The ME/CFS person knows that if they engage in activity, they’ll get muscle aches, huffing and puffing and red in the face. They...
https://meassociation.org.uk/2024/08/explaining-electrophysiological-properties-of-cells/
I wish. The NIH posted this study on their twitter feed and the interpretation from healthy trolls in replies was along the lines of "of course...
NIH press release here: Routine lab tests are not a reliable way to diagnose long COVID My goodness. They needed to waste time and money...
These delusions of having control over your own health are feeding into societal ableism and abuse towards us. Healthy people assume that those of...
Yes but the gastroenterologist will be just fine. It's the families, particularly the mothers, who will get brutalised by the state when something...
Yep. They can dismiss survey evidence of worsening from GET as anecdotal. I would think that such legal action currently has no hope of success....
I'm seeing this more and more on social media. Risky. Leaving aside the issue of whether this is real or not, pursuing unconventional treatments,...
Being a young woman, gastroenterology will try to diagnose you with a fake eating disorder no matter what's wrong. It happened to me when I was a...
Yep. The MDT concluded it was functional and this explains everything that followed, including the “inexplicable” reluctance to try anything else...
When I had Covid again this year, the chronic symptoms of gastroparesis, nausea and vomiting flared up by 100x.
Uh, the symptoms are exactly the same. Every public utterance by this guy has been frightening. Since no one at the NIH has disavowed any of his...
Yes, exactly. It's a widespread problem in ME/CFS advocacy. Objective facts like patients being mistreated in hospitals or CBT/GET being...
It appears that Strain alleges that death from malnutrition in ME/CFS is much more common than we thought. Unfortunately, he's right about there...
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