This also commonly occurs with positive thinking strategies, leading to profound depression.
I think this is a big issue, and suspect it is often better discussed as confounds and biases rather than placebo.
There is no high quality evidence of this view, at all.
So far as I am aware the placebo effect is primarily about perception of pain, its not about healing.
I think a follow up study is underway.
When this happened to me for two months it was a surprise. No energy, but no fatigue. Its an eye opener.
Agreed. However when a doctor hears it they are going to think exercise intolerance till you explain the difference. Activity intolerance is one...
The problem is that "Malaise" is just that, only worse. Malaise in popular culture history is synonymous with lazy, hysterical or psychiatric....
It did not happen with MS, gastric ulcers, Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, etc. These theories run parallel to regular medicine, so...
Sharpe? Blunte?
On advocacy there are three goals I like to think about most. The first is how to accelerate research. We need to increase the rate of good...
Biomarkers. When we have diagnostic and treatment biomarkers everything will change, including the disease definition and name. We need ME in...
Ditto.
Some studies are using this to try to get data on cognitive issues with PEM. It depends on the testing.
My, he could resist, many don't!
This happened to me in hospital, in Australia, on my hospital intake form. I wrote down ME, it got recorded as CFS.
Only skin biopsy. They take a small piece of skin, stain it with something (tagged antibody?) then after a while they count the number of stained...
One of the classic issues with small fiber polyneuropathy is burning feet syndrome, which is a misnomer in part because it happens in extremities....
Just on terminology, I prefer to call my problem wheat sensitivity, not gluten sensitivity, because I have no idea if gluten is important or not.
Here is what I said on my FB page - If you have ME and orthostatic intolerance, especially POTS, and any sign of small fiber polyneuropathy, I...
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