The ME community in the UK should be campaigning for 'services' to be abolished, not new ones added. Given that there are zero evidence-based...
If you don't have family support and can barely subsist, they say it's attention seeking. If you have a supportive husband, they say it's...
The claim that 80% or 90% have abnormal neck MRI is an astonishing one. You'd expect such a finding to have appeared in the peer-reviewed...
It was a challenge to recognise it within myself, let alone for anyone else around me to notice it or take it seriously. I would have described it...
I read a review about fatigue in lupus a few years ago and the treatment recommendation was antidepressant drugs based on the fact that there is...
Sounds plausible. As discussed years ago on the other forum, the RAS is involved in wakefulness/arousal, sleep, attention. If I recall correctly,...
I don't think their funding and publication chances would be negatively affected. Psychiatric disorders, including anxiety disorders, receive...
This line is also used by some proponents of bogus medical treatments for ME/CFS. "Sure, there are no trials showing that this drug works, or in...
Great essay. Re: plausible mechanism, my impression is that the BPS crowd does not believe in the deconditioning hypothesis and they only use it...
The last thing that's needed is further "high quality, adequately powered RCTs" of water. It's highly irresponsible of Cochrane to even suggest...
Awesome! As an aside, I also experienced some benefits from it in the past, though far milder than what you are describing, but could not continue...
Naltrexone is one of the few things that we can be 100% sure doesn't work for ME/CFS given how many clinicians prescribe it to our patient...
Never heard of this diagnostic entity. New ones springing up all the time. :rolleyes:
"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too." - Chekov
Incredibly difficult read. What a monstrous Kafkaesque situation.
I'd love to know what happened to the other 10 who didn't make it to their 16th birthday. Probably died scared and confused because someone gave...
Articles making these sorts of false and exaggerated claims are very unhelpful IMO. Nothing is known about the underlying biology of ME/CFS today,...
Has this study been approved by the research ethics committee at Stanford?
A lot of bad information in this article. It gives the impression that the ME/CFS diagnostic situation is cut and dry (appeal to authority: IOM...
In my experience, its severity fluctuates with the severity of my overall condition and it is worsened by PEM.
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