I get a sore throat and swollen glands when my ME is bad. Also they can be a symptom of PEM. If they go away with rest, I assume it is PEM. Given...
Isn't this a 'floor' rather than a 'ceiling' effect?
When less severely impaired I general felt better on holiday, but how do you measure the differences in activity level where all food is provided,...
If you think you have a specific wheat problem rather than gluten sensitivity, you may be able to cope with spelt, a particularly ancient form of...
I am just getting an error message with the link. Am using an old iPad, but tried several browsers. I was puzzled by the emphaticness of the...
It seems to me that the response to the menopause, like so many things in our condition, is both confusing and inconsistent between individuals....
It does seem to me that every year or so we get the possibility of a clinically useful biomarker prematurely hyped. This is very interesting...
I sometimes wonder if getting other people that do some of the things a doctor does ends up being more expensive. For example if my GP wants to...
So on the basis of this study just over half those diagnosed with CFS under the Oxford criteria are likely to have a psychiatric disorder. For...
It is the phrase evidence-based health care that always makes my heart sink, as usually in relation to ME it is code for bad and misleading...
Am I correct in understanding that a difference between the CFS group and the sedentary controls is that the CFS group were in general either...
Also non UK citizens resident in the UK can sign Parliamentary petitions.
Would it be worth formally raising our concerns about the inconsistencies in relation to how NICE treats conflicts of interest?
I will share it with friends and contacts in Germany, can non Germans sign too?
But isn't the implication of this study that depression is a bigger factor in ME than in other disabling conditions, suggesting that it is some...
A side comment, but I was just thinking that it is so useful to read about what is happening in countries other than our own. Where things are...
Interesting, but I would have voted for an 'other' option being included as well. It is difficult to know where to stop with such a list, for...
There is so much to unpack in this question. What is meant by stress? Psychological Emotional Physical Environmental Physiological etc. [added...
I would argue that it is possible to have either a complete remission or a partial remission, though it is important to be clear which we are...
I struggled to follow the thread at the other place, so will return there when I am more with it. Like everything to do with ME there is no...
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