This is excellent reporting from CTV news, primarily about long-Covid but it also covers ME widely....
But it is likely that your gains would have been registered as a success in a clinical trial and left your therapist with the impression that it...
Hi @SunnyK I have had several surgeries within the span of 2 years, under general anesthesia and it hasn't been a problem for me. The thing you...
I refuse to read or even open that one blog.
I have to disagree with you. Walking on flat surface, or walking downhill requires much less energy than climbing stairs. The demand in energy for...
I think SF-36 could be use generally as to assess a cohort's level of illness and compare to another cohort between studies. For instance one...
Here is what we have learnt throughout the last decade from SF-36. 1) Patients are sick 2) Mental health is good 3) PwME can be more disabled as...
Self-report instrument that is not specific to ME. Some of the questions can be ambiguous and subject to interpretation. One section the SF-36...
I agree with you Trish, I don't understand it either and the paper seems to be very careful in trying to find any explanation- instead they have...
Please allow me my daily dose of sarcasm. Can anyone point out to me why these authors did not measure catastrophization in this instance? Are...
The problem with the study they did was they tried the drug before "thinking about doing a study". That means that the patients were not enrolled...
We are particularly lucky you have joined us here.
From reading patient experiences with getting access to LDN, one of the biggest mistake physician make that leads to failure is to start the med...
I worry that LDN has been hyped and promoted as a treatment for both ME and FM and "believed" as being helpful by doctors who frequently prescribe...
Also @Raven you can skip questions or entire pages if you don't want to answer.
I didn't get Covid myself (knocking on wood) but I have caught the flu on January 1st, and it's nasty, I still get fevers and chills. (4 negative...
One questionnaire was clearly about catastrophization. Like people above, there were questions where I wanted to answer none of the above but...
thank you for your tenacity Caroline.
This is a a qualitative study of the experiences in health care of 20 women. No more than that. It is meant in my view as a preliminary and...
Indeed, however this was a gender-based study. It was also a qualitative study on women's experience with chronic disease and its associated...
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