Am I being foolish, but surely by looking just at referrals for Lyme’s assessment it is inevitable that you will find more false positives than...
Prof Garner tweets “Nice Guideline for CFS/ME derived from activism, not research-from a recovered patient. I have never seen such a corruption of...
Wouldn’t the middle ground be a flattened ovoid, rather like a squashed deflated rugby ball?
Given the use of the term CFS and the prominence of the idea of fatigue, one wonders if this will result in a preselection of very specific...
Philip Cowen PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY Dept of Psychiatry, University of Oxford See https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/phil-cowen He is a...
I don’t know if this is the same study, but Neurochemistry of CFS and post-COVID-19 fatigue Named contact Phil Cowan See...
Migraine, brain tumour, raised intracranial pressure and carbon monoxide poisoning have some symptom overlap, ie headache, does this mean that...
Though I am not a fan of the word ‘fatiguability’, it or an alternative should be used in conjunction with PEM. Only if it is made very clear that...
sad that this petition has not got going yet.
Is historically the problem not the lack of a specific ME medical specialism, as much that we do not fit easily within the existing structure of...
Creating a medical specialism is I think something of a boot strap operation. You create specialists posts of various sorts, which then train...
Aren’t ministers meant to issue a statement any correcting errors of fact they make in Parliament? There has been a fair amount of fuss recently...
What does this tell us? I imagine if you did an analogous study looking at training people in spiritual healing or mediumship you would get very...
A problem is that sometimes people may have more than one condition. A friend, with an under active thyroid condition, experienced years of...
This is what the Times article says of the mother’s ’Parkinson’s’ and her death: The article does not give enough information for us to be able...
How disappointing. I did not win the Lottery, despite the peer pressure to do so via on line support groups.
I don’t know if there have ever been any unambiguous cases of either Münchhausens or Münchhausens by proxy, despite its popularity in drama and...
Yes, I have always since diagnosis declared ME on insurance forms, as not to do so could invalidate the policy. But I have never had any requests...
[Note, I wrote this response a couple of hours ago, but managed not to post it though I thought I had. One benefit of the software used for S4ME...
I agree this is an important issue, and would be happy to work with anyone to achieve this, though individually going beyond comments to collating...
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