I was like that thirty years ago.
My memory is headed into the dementia range, I am forgetting so much, but my reasoning is intact. Problem is that reasoning without memory is like...
My very first blog on ME online was Masks if I recall correctly, and this was a central theme.
I was able to trace it back to at least 1949, though at that time it was a research-only tool, used primarily in cardiac testing. I think a...
Based on my experience I would actually suggest the patient perception is more likely to be to underestimate the severity. We want to get better....
Psychogenic hype.
I have long been concerned about enforced bed rest in severe ME. Its necessary I think, but its also detrimental. I am less concerned about muscle...
If we take an approximate figure of seven million deaths from Covid globally, then it looks like for every person who dies twenty have long term...
Many ME patients anticipated this might be the case. Data is growing that LC is becoming more prevalent. If this data is right, and if all the LC...
Government systems are never optimized, but subject to the vagaries of current political trends. Those trends rarely move around to dealing with...
You only have to ask why the DWP was a part funder of the PACE trial. BPS is pursued by rhetoric and influence, and not facts and sound argument....
I wrote a blog on this many years ago. Nobody takes into account the total impact across all domains. Government should but nearly always does...
There was a study in Victoria, Australia, a decade or two back. They took homeless people, many of whom have health issues, got them...
While I am concerned that I have not read details yet, and any such study will need follow up studies, I was actually clapping as I read the...
PACE and other studies claimed all sorts of improvements and recovery, yet long term follow up shows the real outcome in PACE - zilch.
Where is the fibro only control? Others already mentioned healthy controls.
I would argue yes, it can. However I would also argue that it wont. Poor scientific methods are deeply entrenched into too much of psychiatry....
I am not sure of the specifics in this case, but at some point the pandemic will be over, as its a matter of definition. For something like Covid...
Heat and cold are standard treatments but did not really work great for me. I found menthol rubs to work best, here in Australia the brand is Ice...
I made comments of concern about this study some years back, maybe 2017. I was concerned they could harm some of the participants. I play video...
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