The CDC recommends for ME/CFS, "Limit daytime naps to 30 minutes in total during the day." They really have no clue about the variability of this...
Note that the CDC "Information for Healthcare Providers" has been "Coming Soon" on the CDC website for almost a year. Apparently, the CDC and I...
Bump. Less than 20 hours away. May 10, 2018 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Eastern Time
In the 1990s, it was fashionable to use lithium as an "add on" drug combined with an antidepressant(s) for treatment resistant depression. The...
Over 10,000 views. :eek:
Still waiting for the CDC to update their "Resources for Healthcare Providers". It's been nearly a year of "Coming Soon". I understand these...
Good to see mainstream media no longer pushing graded exercise, and even pointing out harms. Nice jab at the CDC's decades of negligence. Now if...
Of the 10% diagnosed, most are not able to work. Need to find a way to get more donations from healthy working people.
My concern is for ME/CFS patients misdiagnosed as refractory depression patients, after antidepressants, therapy and exercise don't improve their...
Definitely an outlier, but here's an article and commentary about a 55-year-old woman given ECT who lost 30 years of memories....
ME/CFS patients are still routinely prescribed treatments that worsen symptoms. The disease itself, combined with inappropriate treatments, can...
"Talk with me if you want to live."
Thanks, I'll add it to my post above.
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Perhaps robots would be better than humans at determining which diagnosed psych patients are actually misdiagnosed ME/CFS patients.
On the plus side, all the suddenly unemployed therapists will have "someone" to talk to.
Good catch. Rep. Schweyer's district includes Allentown, Pennsylvania. I feel a Billy Joel song coming on......
From the IOM report, a breakdown of PEM symptoms. http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report Files/2015/MECFS/MECFS_KeyFacts.pdf [ATTACH]
Yes. Even in the United States, there are medical providers who in the past refused to diagnose anyone with ME/CFS. So any ME/CFS patients they...
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