Because NZ had vey quick initial lockdown and border restrictions and lived in elimination strategies and zero community cases for about a year we...
Radio NZ article: Emeritus Professor Tate has written to MOH and PM asking for full covid vaccine exemptions for ME/CFS. ME Auckland interviewed...
I have no idea, everyone has their own individual take. Most of ME is managed in primary care in NZ. We pay for GP treatment (as opposed to the...
I found this very informative. A minor point is they state it primarily effects woman of childbearing age but they did not include the ages of...
This is a good way to improve services, people need to be encouraged to make complaints. Too often they fear they will lose service or feel...
I agree, I was referring to techniques used in mental health not in the “treatment” of ME, MUS, Persistent Symptoms as they call it . Mindfulness...
. Some people find it useful to use mindfulness techniques while processing trauma with a therapist. Of course it does nothing to change people’s...
People describe fluttering in the chest with AF, this is a serious arrhythmia as it can cause heart failure (compare to a few ectopic, missed...
This is a common drug still and shares many qualities with antipsychotics (they share similar neurological and receptor pathways) and with some...
yes, it is all pervasive in psychology/psychiatry for pain clinics and mental health problems arising from chronic illness (not sure in NZ for...
I gather this proposed research is being generated by studies into mindfulness and psychology/psychiatry’s belief that if people improve their...
Supposition. Would enjoy reading their proof of this. Was it a psychologist/therapist? A lot of people throwing around unproven biological...
I had neuro-inflammatory symptoms with my first Pfizer (lasted 2 days) and getting my second Pfizer at the weekend. Even though I am in relapse,...
This has been the standard treatment for Major Depressive Disorder of mild severity and other depressive disorders in NZ for 20 odd years. People...
No, can’t get through that paywall either. This is useful additional information..…yes, you can die of Parkinson’s Disease, it a degenerative...
I have now read the full article, thank you for the link. People with Factitious Disorder usually have a strong and verifiable history of...
@Trish I can’t read the article as it is behind a paywall. Fictitious Disorder imposed on self (Munchausen’s Syndrome) requires careful and...
I especially like this quote “By the mechanisms outlined in our previous paper, ME/CFS, once fully established, is a state in which a high level...
He has long covid, he is part of the treatment group for the Pretorius study, according to twitter.
Sorry, some access problem. The quote is from Karl Tronstad, the biochemistry researcher, he links to the recent Chest article on invasive CPET in...
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