Since ME has been appearing since at least 1935 how long do they think it is going to take?
So someone gets worse with your treatment but that is not any reason to rethink your treatment since it must be the patient that is at fault...
So patients don't want things to be called functional because they think it is treated as less real and because they are prejudiced against it....
I remember reading that someone checked the BPS papers using the same algorithm (I think it is called) that they use to check that pharma...
They talk about brain fog but they do not define it anywhere. Years ago, one of the ME researchers in the US said that ME patients had similar...
The simple fact is that tinnitus is an unpleasant nuisance, but not a serious disease. By his own description he overreacted very badly so...
I don't mind them offering alternatives to painkillers as long as they are an addition to pain relief medication. It is being left in agony and...
For many years, I did not understand ME and especially did not fully realise about PEM as we think of it now. I had young children and no help...
Possibly normal or usual would be a better word than healthy. We live in a world surrounded by stressors like noise :)
I agree completely. I was thinking about FND too and they all have the same flaw. They say that stress or childhood adversity causes disease and...
I have never found psychological stress bad for my ME. I have had nights when I could not sleep for worry, but that is universal with extreme...
I think you are completely correct, but so is Kitty. People with ME have been caught in this catch-22 for years. No one will believe you are ill...
Andy, I have that experience too. It is impossible to believe that anyone with any sense can look at these papers and not see the flaws so you...
Childhood stress as a cause of disease should be easy to prove or disprove. Some children grow up in situations of intense stress. Rates of FM, ME...
The misdiagnosis in this case was picked up because a neurodegenerative disease becomes hard to miss. It is not so much that misdiagnoses are...
This sounds as if it could be a way to differentiate fibromyalgia from ME
ME is not like rheumatoid arthritis or similar diseases. Even something like migraine which is diagnosed symptomatically can't be compared because...
I can't follow these things very well anymore, but has it not been suggested that the problem in ME is that gene expression gets changed to cope...
Is there a link to these comments, please?
Another fascinating insight into the complex interactions of parasites with our basic biochemistry. It really does make the BPS views look like a...
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