In online communication I use the compromise term ME/CFS to acknowledge the uncertainty and politics surrounding the name but also because I...
Nope, that would be sickness behaviour. That’s the term used in psychiatry for what you are describing. Illness behaviour, on the other hand, is...
ACT, I thought that was used for people with personality disorders to help them get their act together. They just keep rebranding the same old...
Illness behaviour. I always had a strong dislike for this term. You’re not ill, you’re just behaving like an ill person. To what end? I have lost...
Same here. And to this day my mother refuses to acknowledge that there is anything in particular wrong with her even though her activity levels...
Catatonia and ME/CFS don't look anything alike but it certainly caught my attention that there are apparent responders to lorazepam and...
Sickening stuff.
I have not donated to OMF in a long time after seeing the false hope being whipped up every year.
That would be my worry also. Mild elevations of CRP are common in some types of depression. It tends to be within normal range in ME patients....
There was huge hype surrounding the “something in the blood” and nanoneedle. Before that, they hyped the Naviaux metabolic study and the OMF...
That was the most interesting part. You see it with long Covid now too where they’re throwing their own under the bus. Even healthcare workers are...
Isn’t CRP typically normal in previous studies of ME/CFS?
I guess he has redefined the word “prove”. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, patients are getting sectioned and forced into exercise precisely...
Cyclophosphamide didn’t work either. It was an unblinded study with modest improvements well within the range of the huge placebo effect we saw in...
So sorry to hear about your family’s suffering. I was just implying that ME/CFS is unlikely to be autoimmune. My understanding is that B cells...
Oh dearie me.
LOL https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/1230/1186937-vaccine-covid/
Political decision. They never would have approved this junk if it had been invented by a foreign country.
Excuses excuses. These people don’t do trials because they know that the treatments don’t work.
Patients with comorbid depression should be excluded from a trial of aripiprazole because this is a recognised adjunctive treatment for depression.
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