No. Right from the start people pointed out that they had never shown that everyone with ME was deconditioned.
Derek Pheby was the guy who wanted a large study done to see exactly what people with ME felt their symptoms were, but they gave the money to the...
It takes years to validate a test and do all the tweaking necessary to make them consistent and even then individual batches can go wrong. You are...
Since I became ill in 1968 there has not been a single treatment from the medical profession that has helped me. Even worse, doctors do not...
Thinking about this, I realised that what we have is this circular argument Someone gets an infection or whatever which limits what they can do....
Lots of people in our local clubs enjoy what they do Saturday night but have payback Sunday morning :) It doesn't stop them doing it again the...
I found the thought behind this sentence truly terrifying. Painful disorders can be treated with painkillers but if anyone uses those painkillers...
We have seen this over and over down the years. Everyone else is more important than us so the money to help us is used for someone more deserving...
So despite the continual emphasis that "the symptoms are real to the patient" we are back to 50% of MUS patients are lying. There goes the PIP...
I am diabetic now so I have a blood sugar machine. For years I have had attacks which I believed were caused by low blood sugar. It was very...
I agree. Having a very low number of antibodies in the blood doesn't mean much, it is how fast the body can make new ones when there is a new...
I have managed to increase my fitness, and more importantly, do more so life is pleasanter. I started by walking to my kitchen once a day using a...
I think it is because people keep touching their faces to make the mask comfortable and to talk to people but it can also give a false sense of...
I liked the "Brave maverick doctors are not all quacks, but all quacks are Brave Maverick Doctors." since it is a truer example of how numbers...
This is Wessley's long standing idea thay ME is caused by a virus that people get over but being an invalid helps them emotionally or they mistake...
Part of the picture of ME is that there is a certain level of overall function which can give a number on something like the SF 36 but it is far...
Even back when it was called pseudoepilepsy it was commonest among people with documented biological epilepsy. I looked into it at the time and...
I started going to an MS therapy centre in 1994 just as MRIs were being used for diagnosis. They were not routine and very expensive, though a few...
My father was transferred to a convalescent home after a heart attack in 1970. They were given a glass of Guinness every day. Stout was seen as a...
It is all so back to front. Sensory processing difficulties in psychiatric disorders indicate that these disorders are rooted in the brain not...
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