This is not talked about enough. I used to carry money so I could go and have a cup of tea till I could work out how to get home. I couldn't get...
Way back in the 90s when Wessely and mates shoved aside the biomedical researchers and doctors while renaming ME and equating it with fatigue I...
ME is a very difficult disease to sort into types. It is not linear mild to moderate to severe in the way of other diseases or discrete episodes....
The current concept of FND has no basis in reality. Stone admires the 19th century neurologists and psychologists who gave us hysteria which he...
There were many epidemics documented round the world, often named after the place like Akeyuri disease. There was a conference and it was decided...
I get annoyed when researchers and others start by referencing that there is a high level of psychological problems in ME. The research which...
Only the very severe are consistently bed ridden and the majority of people with ME are not that deconditioned. I was very fit for the first...
This does not surprise me. On social media there are no clues to someone's race, gender or even where in the world they come from unless they...
The latest onslaught of FND began with a paper by Michael Sharpe and Jon Stone in 2008 which was full of caveats on diagnosing it. Since then FND...
There is another significant factor that is easy to overlook. I have a medical book from the late thirties and it has large sections on...
Variability over hours, days, weeks and so on was one of the cardinal symptoms of ME alongside exercise intolerance. It helped distinguish ME from...
The increase in heart rate when you have done too much is because your heart is trying to overcome the fact you have used up your aerobic...
Unrefreshing sleep is a good example to use. I can vaguely remember, almost fifty years ago, feeling annoyed when the alarm went but I would not...
I have read articles about this on the Workwell website which might explain this better. There are various ways to work out a rough approximation...
Since the CODES trial showed there were no reductions in number of seizures after treatment and a psychogenic diagnosis will make getting care and...
ME's PESE is often delayed by 3 days. I was often bedridden 3 days after doing something I had thought was within my capabilities and feeling fine...
Further reading has shown that some pharmacists in Scotland and Wales have already trained to prescribe common drugs including antibiotics. The...
I am sorry, but every time I read the title of this paper I get the giggles. "Fatigue as the unconscious refusal of the demands of late...
They might have changed it now but that phrase was thanks to our BPS overlords. The way I would describe it is that we do not have broken...
Vaccines prime the immune system so that when it comes in contact with the virus it can begin fighting it much sooner. Things like diptheria were...
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