"Central fatigue is characterized by a lack of self-motivation and can manifest both in physical and mental activities. Peripheral fatigue is...
My husband's family are thin. His female cousins are twig like naturally. I used to think I was terribly greedy because if we missed a meal I...
They didn't mention patient confidentiality at first. It was something they came up with after their other reasons failed. I seem to remember one...
In the context of ME they specifically meant it as outbreaks of infectious disease. They took it from the life cycle of polio where the virus...
It all comes down to the fact that they say we have a genuine disease but what they actually think is that we are just whiny complainers who won't...
It is another one of these questions that have 2 different meanings. We all want specialist ME services but the clinics that already exist are not...
It is not ever in the blood stream just not enough for a negative test to mean it is absent from the body.
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How much do these things make for psychologists? And how much does this influence their stance on the biomedical research? :(
It might be the individual fitbits. My readings are consistent over my fitbit, blood pressure machine and O2 monitor; ususally identical never...
ME was just ME not connected with any other illness before CFS was invented. The confusion is with chronic fatigue being used as the sole symptom...
The reason enteroviruses can become chronic, in heart disease for instance, is that they do not enter the blood stream very often. Other viruses...
I think we should start making a list of all the "conclusions" which include these sorts of words. I was as guilty as anyone of not noticing them...
Excellent comment from you too Trish. So glad we have such articulate people explaining our problems to the wider world.
Years ago, they treated syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria using the high temperature of malarial fever to kill off the bacteria. The...
Language is so tricky anyway that too much weight is being put onto the answers to questions which are easily misinterpreted. Nigel Speight once...
When we are cold we can't heat up and when we re hot we can't cool down. I wonder if the same thing happens with lots of our body systems. If it...
I read an article in the MS association magazine which was reprinted from one in the RA magazine - got it? That said that a lot of the fatigue in...
Hutan mentioned this "Before the 1960s people with anorexia nervosa did not give fear of getting fat as their reason for eating little. They said...
It is never safe to assume that with ME, Michiel :) Over the years things keep getting rediscovered and it is very frustrating. Researchers leave...
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