One quarter? More like 90% at least.
When you think about it, malingering gives you such a poor return on investment that if you choose to go through all the trouble and manage to...
That's what I meant, when patients exert themselves in a way that leads to a crash days after, they need to measure not just the crash but also...
PEM clearly has two stages, the one during and right after exertion and the crash that happens a day after. Any study with PEM should investigate...
How do we plan on identifying the pathogen if all previous methods have failed?
You have to be really dumb as a malingerer to choose ME, nobody will ever give you disability or any of the secondary benefits you are looking...
The thing about neurology is in papers they clearly write a large subset of patients with neurological illnesses can be negative in the tests and...
This is missing the point. If you are a patient with depression, anxiety or autism, you will find that psychiatrists tend to listen to you and...
Off topic but out of curiosity, roughly how many people did you see during your practice that most definitely had ME?
How does PTSD relate to posture? I don't get it. Plenty of people have PTSD nowadays and none of them have this posture problem as far as I can...
Do we have a comprehensive list of these somewhere? Should probably add it there. How nice would it be to have a mega class action lawsuit...
Honestly, I doubt it. I've noticed over the years patient organizations tend to have this "submissive" vibe where they just assume the researchers...
The vultures are at it again.
What a load of bullshit. The condition is too complex to be studied with GWAS, really? But psychologists telling you to think happy thoughts and...
If you have an underlying immune deficiency with chronic or recurrent bacterial infections, and you also have ME, it's likely that treating that...
I don't think it's correct to say that either, because they tend to only work once, if they work. There has to be a specific reason for that.
I mean, for every ME patient that goes into remission from those antibiotics (I tried all of those in the protocol and more, 0 benefit) there's a...
That would be an even more compelling reason to keep working on it. A biomarker that could differentiate unspecified illness from controls would...
The culture of disdain is very deeply rooted within medicine. I remember reading a literature review on autoimmune encephalitis, which is an...
You might be right, but let me elaborate what my thinking was: Historically debate on ME has been hijacked and turned into a mental vs physical...
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