In my view it still needs to be clarified what is actually happening in these cases. Is it weakness of the muscles involved in swallowing, does...
That could be true. I don't know since I haven't been in this situation. We patients probably use these theories of to resist psychologization...
Eating disorder has this connotation of psychological cause. Which then leads to helpless patients being assaulted with strange theories.
No illness can be cured by stopping believing in it. If someone with hypochondria is misdiagnosed with ME/CFS and gets better by stopping...
Typical for me is also this: I get out of bed and two seconds later, fall to my knees or flat on the ground. Happened this morning. When there...
Abstract Objective Orthostatic intolerance is typically thought to be sporadic and attributed to cerebral autonomic dysfunction; we sought to...
The funny thing about this is: these people have lost the scientific debate years ago. Their ideas are simply without merit, and smearing their...
My muscles tire more than that of a healthy person when walking, and this is visible in my gait. I begin walking slower, use my hands for extra...
Are these cases similar to what one might see in eosinophilic esophagitis?
I'm not sure that I've seen a good description of what these patients are experiencing. In some cases the feeding difficulties appeared to be due...
I wonder if this fits with my experience that eating something can greatly improve symptoms of orthostatic intolerance. How would eating improve...
This confusion is probably because psychologists are not able to admit that with pain they're not measuring a real phenomenon but a perception of...
This is an opinion piece. The authors believe that staphylococcus aureus plays a role in about a third of ME/CFS cases but do not report any data...
I hear you.
It seems clear that some patients given a FND diagnosis believe it is correct, and that they are gaining something from the diagnosis. It can be a...
My neck pain improved a lot with just strengthening the muscles and stretching. We patients tend to lose muscle strength and often spend much time...
De facto FND is being used as garbage bin diagnosis, while being presented in public as specific entity. FND proponents are advancing the garbage...
This description in a paper on sarcoidosis sounds like PEM (although not much detail is given so it's not clear). Fatigue is often reported by...
This seems to show once again that cognitive factors have don't have a causal role in disability. Whether the fatigue has really improved or not...
This whole thing now looks like a delay tactic to protect the careers and incomes of the CBT and GET industry.
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