It may not be relevant, but many of us with ME, even quite severe, longstanding ME, have the flu jab every year with no problems. I have also had...
It is the same thinking that let the CDC investigate an epidemic and then give criteria for the disease that said you had to wait 6 months before...
They say the more symptoms a person has the more likely it is they have a psychological disorder. I have a better theory. The more diseases a...
CPET testing shows that at least one section of people diagnosed with ME have a damaged aerobic respiration system. They may have fatigue the way...
It's not scientific, but my daughter, who has coeliac disease, asthma and a latex allergy, had the vaccine last Thursday. She is fine except for...
So when you add symptom 4 the first 3 stop existing and become imaginary. Edited to add Oliver Sachs said that 3 migraines a week were physical...
If ME had never been degraded down to the single symptom of fatigue there would not be the diagnostic confusion. CFS was invented by people called...
Free roaming bits of genetic material and the human genome what could go wrong :)
They keep associating long covid with ME because of fatigue but that is all wrong. If the BPS crew had not introduced CFS with its 6 months of...
They do not mention that 35 years ago research was being done into the biological basis of ME.
It was a long time ago, but I read about sickness behaviour being researched in biology. They were talking about the what caused the change in...
When ME was defined it was well understood that it was a symptom set that occurred after many epidemics in different times and places. People who...
During the epidemics people who were active were more likely to get ME, for instance in a convent that was also a teacher training college, the...
At least it is going in the right direction. The real, astounding question is why they could ever be considered the same disease in the first place.
I could easily be seen as perfectionist because I like the house neat and tidy and all jobs kept up to date. However this is because I have learnt...
It is a "get out of jail" idea. People with depression are often unmotivated to do anything so they let things like housework go. ME people who...
I was diagnosed as having a physical disease in 1984 when ME was considered a physical disease and research into it's physical causes was being...
The idea that lots of symptoms means an illness is psychological is very widespread but a few moments thought shows that it is nonsense. Any...
It is just as likely, if not more that the increased in ME symptoms is due to the effort of fighting the infection rather than anything specific...
I was given amantadine for my ME when it was first diagnosed in 1985. It did not help but then again my baby was 3 months old at the time...
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