This is also very deeply entwined with my mental health issues. Every time I try to get this test, and something stops me, I begin spiraling...
I understand anyone with the right equipment can to a 2-day CPET. I think the problem is lack of someone to interpret the results. What I...
Well, my doctor ordered so it's obviously medically necessary. I tried contacting a bunch of VO2Max labs around me, but they all ghosted or said...
So, I need a 2-day CPET. My doctor ordered one for me. Problem is, I can't find anyone to do it. I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My insurance...
Is this a freaking joke?
I wonder how many Americans are getting SSDI for LC. It's probably also a small number, as the US has similar rules about duration: Your illness...
It might need a little formatting cleanup before publication: The link to the old guideline should probably be a citation?: Also there are some...
The authors of the paper don't believe PEM only happens after what a health person would call exercise. They even recognize mental PEM:
Going in the right direction, but could be more explicit about why GET is a bad idea. The probably didn't detail the rationale behind all this...
Oh no. They treated him with CBT/GET basically. They also insist ME is a diagnosis of exclusion, which isn't the modern view. (Nowadays, we use...
Has anyone even bothered to study mental healthcare with the same rigor as physical healthcare? Some autism research is just as bad as the PACE...
What are their criteria for recovery rate? 40% simply not believable on its face. Most of the people I know with mental health problems have them...
Myth #4 is "Long COVID is all in the mind":
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This only happens if you have AIDS--that is, your infection is so advanced that your immune system is seriously weakened. At the point, people...
I shouldn't have read that, now I feel horrible. I feel like I waded through a sewage pond.
And even if we knew the risk factors, they wouldn't mean much to someone who already has ME. Though I'm sure some people will enjoy finding out...
Chalder and Sharpe still at it? Sigh. Also, we need to stop treating ME as a diagnosis of exclusion.
Context: These figures are for the US. For reference, our population is 332M, around 160M of whom work. Let's consider the implications of some...
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