Liars will lie whatever you do.
Yes, I get you. I think the Biobank test is targeted at GPs and nurses. The DWP do tests like this anyway but without any evidence base. However,...
I understand where you're coming from. We've been burned pretty badly. But we shouldn't solely focus scientific efforts on ways to avoid bad-faith...
Me too. I've taken hydrocortisone before (I have asthma too) and while it gave me a little lift, it made me more wired, more likely to crash, and...
But surely you'd flag that before the test, though? It would obviously require some commonsense. Additionally, if it was used in the early days,...
The theory with low doses is that this might not happen, or it may only happen to a small degree. It's surprising they're publishing on this...
Oh, I see. I don't think it really adds anything new in that sense. It's not supposed to be a biomarker. You would probably use this as a...
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.
As I understand it, the measures were subjective but the trial was blinded? So what we may have is patients reporting improvement despite no...
This. It seems very likely to me that cortisol levels in ME are reduced because of activity levels. I think we've also discussed sleep times,...
And that's fair enough, I think. You can recognise the utility of a test (dynamometers are in every GP's surgery) while still acknowledging that...
There's at least some evidence that it's hard to 'fake' hand-grip strength tests. I linked to that in the repeat hand-grip strength test thread...
I, too, think handwriting would be a good thing to assess. It's used in Parkinson's and other diseases. It would be useful, I think, to develop a...
He says CBT isn't curative for ME. It's the 'decrease the belief that the condition is serious' that's out of character.
Thanks. I'll follow this. It may yield an interesting discussion!
But not all patients are bedbound. I think you're being either pedantic or contrary, but I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here....
That's positive and welcome. Thank you.
Even better would probably be to explain what these features are like. E.g., I feel really flu-like, with swollen glands and sore throat, muscle...
I wonder if it's because 'chronic' usually means 6 months+ in medical terms, whereas 'post' just means 'after'. So there was need for a term to...
Define 'sufficient to do most jobs'. Who decides that? If a person displays only 60% of the strength of an average person of their age, then that...
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