Please consider supporting this #MEACTION petition in support of a young Swedish ME sufferer being threatened with enforced psychiatric treatment....
Just read the abstract as I can not face reading the article but several things jumped out: - is there any progress in testing treatment...
I just wanted to echo the other comments praising this Rapid Response. It has the main information expressed clearly and concisely. Indeed my...
Do we know yet what the outcome measures are? The above wording suggests they are already specified. Presumably we can be reasonably certain they...
Sorry a bit of a digression, but in relation to vaccines and ME, we don’t have systematic data but my subjective impression from various forums...
I perhaps have trouble spotting mild brain fog because it is a norm. It is only on those rare occasions when I don’t have problems that I realise...
Though subjectively I am not sure I can relate to what you describe as a sensation of ‘sore lungs’ in relation to a ‘good night’s sleep’, I do...
Do we need a description that combines both the ideas of an envelope and a threshold? Triggering PEM can be a specific point or threshold in a...
I don’t know if this is relevant, but it is interesting to see that funding for ME research is about the same as for alcoholism. Alcoholism is a...
Blood letting was probably recommended at one time by the Royal College of Physicians here in the UK, but given both NIH in the US, and imminently...
So sad, that such quackery continues to be given apparent credibility by institutions that should know better.
Do any of these researchers have any understanding of the difference between ‘association’ and ‘causality’? I have observed that people...
My understanding is: Literally ‘somatic’ means relating to the body. So literally ‘somatic symptoms’ are simply bodily symptoms. In origin the...
I used to take various medication, when I still worked part time for migraine, though my impression was they only served to delay attacks, and...
I don’t take sleep medication in part because I have a ‘psychological’ resistance to taking any medication long term if I can avoid it, but also...
(Sorry to state the obvious, but ... ) I agree that we need to scrutinise carefully what is said in tomorrow’s draft about CBT as so far there is...
Perhaps a better example placebo than the single aspirin is how I use the ‘energy drink’ Lucozade. When I was a child Lucozade was still marketed...
This is such a large area that it can not be covered in a simple comment. There are many different solutions to different problems, and it is...
Another excellent blog post, thank you @Michiel Tack and Evelien.
This seems predicated on a belief that there is a treatment. At present there are no meaningful treatments.
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