NZ uses two USA sourced machines (and the adhesive pads to deliver ECT). https://nzihe.org.nz/a-biomedical-look-at-ect/ The link is from a...
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encapsulated an element of stress... oh really? now where would that be? I can see them all nodding their heads about their wonderful grasp of...
I found the Mirror article interesting. Another woman with Very Severe ME was admitted to the RD&E in 2023 and they refused to do NG feeds below...
It is a problem I often reflect on. I have been fortunate to find a person who totally believed me from the beginning. Actually if I hadn't found...
I will agree to disagree on that one Jonathan. There is difference between academic medicine and clinical medicine. But I do appreciate this is...
The other issue, after watching the ITV report yesterday, is that M was treated during Covid measures. No family could be with her. So that would...
Yes, I do appreciate this but in all areas of medicine there is an opportunity to use "experimental" treatments which have an accepted rationale...
I wish they hadn't put CBT as a treatment for ME in the Guardian article. Rather focus on the disability of ME. Supportive CBT may only help...
Interesting paper
I find that hard to believe, if that is what he said. He is a gastroenterologist, he would have seen lots of patients over his career getting TPN....
Interesting, the GP said one Consultant didn't think ME was a medical problem. Now we have the Matron of the hospital saying the same. So who is...
Yes I agree. I haven't said that I think fludrocortisone is appropriate. I personally don't think it is. I don't think it is good idea to play...
I have had a good read through the comments. Yes, I totally take your points, @Jonathan Edwards about increasing the intravascular volume. Yes,...
I don't think it is about the amount of red blood cells and oxygen carriage. But the plasma volume of blood. It is nearing my bed time so major...
I still think there is some central reason (i.e. in the brain) for ME and PEM, and the often tantalising, research into the metabolome and...
I read this as it is her ("M's") fear of being locked in, not like locked in syndrome. When I am bed tethered and bed bound , I often feel locked...
Nightsong clarified that she was not on the eating disorder ward, as referenced in tweets, she was in a medical bed for people with a psychiatric...
Yes, I do think she wanted to give anything a go. She knew she didn't have the physical capacity to do so, at times. (And we all understand this...
Just offering information. Not trying to make any point. It is all heartbreaking. Maeve knew she wasn't, and wouldn't, be getting any care from...
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