Alas, I became sensitive to fibre metabolites (I believe it's the propionic acid, but it could be the butyric) a couple of months ago. After...
I expect on some of those questionnaires, if you answered 99 questions 'no' and one that was vague enough to be considered 'yes', the psychiatrist...
What would a questionnaire about the usefulness of questionnaires show?
Catastrophizing? Kinesiophobia? Leading the subject much?
Darn, I thought the wound healing application had been verified, and I thought I'd read about it in a credible source. Maybe someone will start...
Well, they're nearly identical in that they involve scientific-sounding concepts that are mysterious to most people, and thus easy to make magical...
I have an alternative hypothesis: that it's not the overall effort of the activity, but the microtears that occur when using your muscles in ways...
It depends on the type of cognitive effort. Back when I still got PEM, socializing and driving were the most noticeable triggers, and the PEM...
Posts moved from this thread One thing about my ME is that I never noticed any reduction in my physical ability. I didn't do any fancy tests...
This triggers a question: do any other languages have better words to differentiate between these similar but unrelated symptoms? Does, for...
While checking for something else, I noticed that Google's 'list of common questions' showed this: Does Graded exercise therapy work for CFS? A...
Were the tests done on patients who were severe? If not, the results might not apply to severe patients. I'm really skeptical about the...
CSF may not contain the abnormal metabolites that might be occurring in ME. It's possible for them to be localized to specific parts of the brain.
Hmmm, pretty complex systems.
It's a shame that they didn't include one or more other groups, to test the comparative effectiveness of watching TV or playing computer games or...
@DMissa , perhaps you can comment on my hypothesis about dietary niacin causing suicidal moods. I started getting suicidal moods soon after...
Yup, not very useful, especially since it's anecdotal evidence. My guess is that if they'd asked people to try magic crystals or random...
The comments mentioned another thread about someone who benefited from it, but also a comment from someone who almost died from taking it. I...
I expect there would be plenty of volunteers from the ME community who would be willing to give this a try. If it doesn't help significantly, at...
Yes, we still have no reliable test for actual fatigue, or even a clear definition of what fatigue is, so asking a patient "Do you feel fatigued?"...
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