I have met clients with clinical alcohol intolerance due to a genetic defect in the aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme. They show facial flushing and...
That would require some insight into why the ME community are upset by his views, something PG has shown on many occasions not to have. To label...
Great article, not much to add. Being a psychiatrist and I did practise CBT for some years, I can only add this from my experience with clients...
Golly, UK psych units sound quite different to NZ ones. Mental health nurses don't barge into people's rooms. Units are run much the same as...
@JellyBabyKid In NZ, DBT skills are being taught at primary school eg.mindfulness, breathing, emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills....
@Haveyoutriedyoga yes, part of the neuropsychological examination is distractibility, the ability to maintain attention (sort of like alertness,...
@SNT Gatchaman Though the structural problem underlying dysfunction may have been very difficult to delineate ex vivo. Yes good point. Nice...
I think there are central mechanisms involved but there is not enough evidence. I don't think it is a problem with the structure and function of...
So how is the experiment going @SNT Gatchaman? Have you done it on some controls? You hinted at a study. Is it a go-er?
This is awesome! very well written. And reading it, some of these studies are maybe where ME Clinicans have got their information about reduced...
Reduced fitness and muscle function lead to fatigue even in everyday activities. That is incorrect. (well most is incorrect but this is just a...
That sentence in the abstract is too long...A moderation effect..I can't read the paper so what does this mean? a moderate effect? it moderates?...
I haven't read all of the paper but this popped out to me first: self reported valence is one of the metrics gathered in this study. Valence also...
No, not specifically, we were taught that some people developed post infection fatigue syndromes (ME) but little was known about why they occurred...
I think they are out to save money for the health service. They seem very clear they will try anything without good proven evidence. They also...
@Paraprosdokian I agree with your approach as a layman with some understanding of medical idemnity. I think being able to successfully claim on...
Yes, this is the current guidance in NZ. When I went for an eye op under GA a few years ago, I told the anaesthetist at my preop assessment that...
In response to @SNT Gatchaman report that the term "medicalise" and "medicalisation" is only even been used to legitimise biological illness, from...
Off topic again but I read in Stuff last month, a young woman diagnosed with hEDS flew to Germany for the nutcracker surgery with her mother after...
As a doctor, I don't consider any of those medications low risk! Many have significant side effects and can cause a variety of serious health...
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