The only problem with talking about post infectious disease states is it assumes the infection is over and we do not know if that is the case, for...
The guy who was head of the benefits agency then got a chair at Cardiff University (his name flashes into my mind then disappears, sorry) said...
I think that CBT is effective at changing thoughts and behaviours if the changes are beneficial to the patient. My mother was always a bit...
Many microbes easily hide in the body and evade the immune system. Detecting antibodies in the blood is different from finding organisms. Basic...
In the late 80s I was a member of a local ME group. One woman there had developed ME after she had gone down 2 viruses at once. I think it was...
The device shows biomedical anomalies so it would be useful important evidence to the people who decide who gets disability benefits. A lot of...
This is one of those papers that typifies how some research is only needed because of issues which only exist as a result of serious flaws in the...
In the early 80s my husband was a microbiologist and there was a renewed interest in enteroviral research in the meetings and things he attended....
I think people with ME develop POTS because ME causes damage to parts of the brain resulting in general dysautonomia. All ME patients have this...
I assume goodwill among GPs and that they want to help them get better. They have a patient show up saying they are tired, just not feeling well...
Going back many years before CFS, there was a growing feeling that all the tests for ME were negative because they were all done at rest. I...
Glad to know that :banghead::banghead::banghead:
Years ago, an official report on CFS (ME/CFS it would be now) that paved the way to the PACE trial etc said that it was a new type of disease in...
2012? That worked well then. Something I have noticed in many aspects of life, we do not need new rules we just need proper application of the...
That sounds like CFS is being used to mean, well, having chronic fatigue rather than the specific disease that was meant to be identical to ME....
I am shocked speechless. Perforated appendicitis is no joke. My Mother in Law died at age 75 due to adhesions on the bowel caused by a perforated...
So, basically, lots of information but nothing that tells you what you want to know :) I find weather forecasts to be much the same! Thank you.
May have missed it, but I am wondering exactly what, say, a 90% efficacy means. Is it 90% of people have immunity but 10% don't? Or does an...
The use of activity timetables just shows how out of touch with the realities of ME these therapists are. I can never predict what I can do on any...
People who run these trials and make all these pronouncements have never experienced real pain. They could not have, it is impossible to be so...
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