Could the clinics be encouraging people to sing petitions to keep them open or expand the service?
The most likely explanation is that ME causes sickness response or even sickness behaviour like taking to your bed because ME is a serious...
I have said before, my parents worked very physically for long hours in a factory for very little and came home exhausted, they certainly never...
If the Workwell results are correct, and what they have found matches my ME very well, we have broken aerobic energy production systems in our...
If people only took opioids and gabapentin and pregabalin the way they are prescribed it would save a lot of deaths too. We are lucky to live in a...
I think that BPS issues, while important to us, are not particularly central to most doctors. They are told certain things and believe them...
When I was less affected and undiagnosed I was able to look after my children and run the house. I felt the illness didn't stop me doing anything...
This is a good example of how trivial much of medicine is becoming. Once, a doctor would have questioned the patient to see if they had...
I don't have the reference offhand and I don't feel strong enough to plough through the dross to find it but one paper suggests that FND should be...
It is difficult to underestimate the value of these articles. We have a large community nowadays, information is easy to come by and there are...
Psychological treatment can help social anxiety by giving patients techniques to help them. Things like reciting the alphabet or tapping your arm,...
I have a strange feeling (lots of them!) but something I read recently makes me wonder if it is an enlarged spleen. I'm never going to know as I...
An important thing to remember in any discussion of ME and depression is that the symptoms of ME are taken as being the symptoms of depression....
It also misses the glaring fact that childhood abuse involving being slapped round the head or malnutrition or neglect leading to developmental...
Symptoms vary between us and for each of us over time but they are all pointers to having ME. There needs to be a list of symptoms that many...
ME is so complex. The Workwell findings, as I said, mirror my illness very well, but .... They are not the only thing going on, they are the...
My friends with MS talk about the cognitive problems as being one of the worst symptoms (after fatigue!). Umm, I did not read the paper but how...
Yes, their research may be wrong or be superseded one day but it is the first which matches my symptoms so exactly. Every new thing I read about...
Without getting into another area of controversy, after the Kennedy assassination there was not a great conspiracy to silence the critics, it was...
Could this be the statement of someone who has been pressured into keeping the paper but thinks that anyone reading it as it stands now will see...
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