I assume that any central sensitisation theory would imply all the senses would be effected equally. For me I am generally only aware of sensory...
My n=1 response is that for me the opposite may be true. It is hard to be objective about subjective experience that can not be independently...
I relatively recently have started to experience when in PEM a nondescript sensation, that I can only describe as a sense of emptiness or of...
Could we see a risk of child protection procedures being wrongly invoked for children displaying ‘elevated IL-6 and hsCRP’? Having worked in...
Though similarly just because eminent physicians have had people with ME pass through their clinics, this does not necessarily guarantee their...
I suppose I was thinking of myself, living alone in a detached house on a quiet lane with pretty quiet neighbours. The only environmental stressor...
There is a risk of evolutionary arguments becoming circular: crudely put evolution is the survival of the fittest, but the only measure of what is...
Playing at being a Devil’s Advocate: At present we do not have the evidence to unambiguously say whether ME is a purely biomedical condition or...
For someone bed-bound or even just housebound, the likelihood is that most of the time they are pretty calm to start with.
This seems a potentially enormous growth area: asserting certain symptoms are psychogenic without regard for alternative explanations, even if...
Interesting that the article goes from attacking people with ME and their advocates to lauding the researcher(s) that the author finds...
Unfortunately variability is one of the aspects of ME that some regard as evidence for it being a psychogenic condition.
A friend’s grandmother wore a corset two sizes too big when she was first presented at court. She had a naturally exceptionally narrow waist, and...
Not upto reading the full paper this evening, but is the abstract indicating improvement of self reported measures, but no improvement on...
Given this study was an evaluation of regular treatment as part of an ongoing specialist service provision patients may not be aware they were the...
This is not an experimental trial, at best it is a feasibility study as to whether it would be practicable to conduct such a trial. Though given...
I initially did not link to the petition, being overseas, but now have signed.
I think that there will be varying degrees of uncertainty from person to person and onset to onset. For me my ME began with an acute episode of...
I was confused by this too. I too have not read the article, but unless they are referring to very occasional seasonal viruses, the only...
Fascinating that Paul Garner has conducted his health issues in the full glare of social media and the press, but now claims this is the first...
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