The confusion brought about by the invention of CFS has been devastating for ME research and has left patients to suffer alone for decades.
PEM is not a crash with exercise, though that often happens. It is an exacerbation of symptoms with physical or mental exertion and a response to...
Not very useful, but when SW made the claim that people were advocating complete rest none of us were able to think of anyplace or anyone who had...
No one funds anything. There have been important studies, such as the NIH research years ago, which looked at cardiac problems in ME. They were...
Years ago there were studies done that found abnormalities in the brainstem in people with ME. A healthy functioning brainstem is important for...
There are animal models for psychiatric diseases. One of the most curious is attention deficit disorder. In Australia they had a breeding...
I think we are extremely good at processing medical reassurance - we know exactly what it is worth.
Forty years ago they used early morning urine samples to test for pregnancy as there was time overnight for the hormone to gather. Mine was...
The lights are the insides of an animal so rising of the lights could like hysteria, or hysteria is the only specific instance that has survived t...
They say there is no relevant lesions. They are quite happy to diagnose FND even if you have positive signs of neurological lesions if they...
A lot of research is being done on dry eyes so the basic biology of how the eye makes adjustments is being worked out. It is only when you think...
The important point is that our immune systems do not work normally. Some research found that in the early years it was most usual to catch...
David Bell found low blood volume in ME patients. He gave them IV saline and they felt normal almost at once. Unfortunately the effect wore off...
Um, they say that BDS is commoner in younger women but they arbitrarily excluded anyone over 65.
If they found that physical abuse causes physical problems in the brain that are measurable then it is not a conversion disorder caused by...
What people on this forum may not appreciate is the way many of the things we have fought for years are being rolled out for other diseases and...
Gould developed pancreatic cancer which has a very short time on average from diagnosis till death. I think he desperately wanted to believe that...
Wasn't there a suggestion recently that Stephen Hawking had a psychosomatic disease?
I have mentioned before that the MS therapy centre I attend for hyperbaric oxygen is promoting a commercial 7 step treatment approach called...
An abnormal response to exercise is not mentioned. In 2020 we should expect and demand that anyone claiming to be an expert, spokesperson or...
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