It is only in the past 40 years or so that most people's lifestyles have meant that they need to use leisure time to keep fit. Before that...
I have only met one person with MS dementia but it does happen. It makes sense that anything that affects neurons will affect the brain.
In the UK before Lake Tahoe the symptoms of ME were seen as being widespread, often devastating pain especially in the muscles, an abnormal...
Yes, it might be better stated that some people have unusual sequelae to common infections :) When I became ill my uncle did too. He experienced...
I have not read the paper so I don't know if they controlled for this. Polio was caused by an abnormal response to a fairly common infection. In...
I do love It's like astrology. "Capricorns are fun and outgoing but shy and retiring. They like to sit quietly in the corner and observe others...
I knew a woman who had her pituitary removed for cancer. She looked like the stereotype of the couch potato, very overweight, plodding walk and a...
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If you have a glass of wine 4 days a week you score 4 then having 6 drinks every Christmas day gives you another point to be classed as a...
From Stone's writings they seem to believe that they have finally put hysteria on a scientific basis, hence the continual assertion that it is an...
After all this time you would think that that "may" could be replaced by "often", "sometimes", "usually" or something more definite.
There is a general problem in medicine caused by the use of cut off points in testing. Most of the time it works well but it is hard to keep in...
When I did microbiology in the 70s we were taught that E. coli was commensal but could cause infection if it was given a chance. Neisseria can...
What gets me is that there are plenty of people out there who could do with good research into how they could stop their emotions ruining their...
Studies on ME epidemiology are sparse but the old idea was that trauma could reactivate a virus or let a virus that was contained run rampant....
I think it just got left hanging the way so many things have been left in ME research. I will say though that 19 from 20 sounds very high but...
We are not anti psychology or psychiatry as long as such and especially not against FND because it is in the DSM-5. We were fighting against it...
So if they find that antimicrobials helped ME/CFS it will be proof that microorganisms can cause mental illness?
The list of similar symptoms and the general thrust seemed to echo what this forum has been saying for years; that ME is a disease which is the...
The first sentence is about a one way interconnection, the second seems tagged on the end to deflect criticism.
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