Guilty admission: I haven't voted either. In my own poll! :bag: I've started to doubt whether what I thought I knew about my own experience is...
Good question. I've always assumed - based on no evidence whatsoever - that the sore throat is part of the general sickness response symptom...
I think that must be the case. The physiological changes underlying PEM must surely start during exertion, there can't a be a switch that suddenly...
Could be the law of unintended consequences at play. Consider how so many patients, advocacy groups and biomedically orientated researchers and...
Full poll question: Please compare your typical PEM from physical overexertion with your typical PEM from cognitive overexertion. Consider the...
Yes, it was pretty good. The reporter committed a couple of 'chronic fatigue's - somehow that seems to be unavoidable - but apart from that it was...
In mice. A new study has detailed the damaging role played by the immune system in a severe brain condition most commonly caused by the cold sore...
The study makes the important observation that some pwME already have PEM from travelling when they turn up for their day 1 CPET. This raises the...
This may be a language thing? Both in this study and in others before I've been surprised at how few participants endorse flu-like symptoms given...
Yes. This should have been done decades ago. But better late than never. Hopefully this will help dispel the myth that PEM is the same as...
Have only read the abstract - and that's all the energy I'm prepared to give this - but to me it sounds like they only tested the how well the...
A feature of brain fog I think. Sometimes I need to use so much mental energy to simply remember what options 1 and 2 are I don't have any energy...
I wonder if that's the result of ME being uncomfortably caught between acute and chronic illness? With acute illness we generally expect that we...
A mixed bag, also apart from the uninformative abstract. The idea behind the study seems reasonable: people with FM and pwME struggle to exercise...
That was my first thought, too. But I expect that somehow they'll manage to twist their findings into a version of there's nothing wrong with the...
A clear improvement on the previous version. :thumbup: One thing I find annoying is that this page - in common with seemingly every other ME/CFS...
This. When well rested I have a sort of bi-phasic sleep, i.e. go to sleep ok, wake around 3am for a while, go back to sleep, wake around 5.30 am....
Question 1: what is GFAP? Question 2: what relevance would elevated GFAP autoantibodies have & could that really be a biomarker (if the finding...
Heads up to anyone in the Tauranga region and fit enough to attend meetings. The Neurological Foundation is running a series of events, one of...
There seems to be a fashion for systematic imaging reviews. Here's a similar one (link below). Both conclude current studies are too few, too...
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