This may be a step forward from a similar study done years ago using GP records. They found that people with ME had more GP visits in the previous...
Personality traits are such a dubious, subjective subject this may be the start of something that will become a firm science one day .... or maybe...
A friend's grandfather lost a leg in the. He had a mirror he used when he felt phantom pain that uncramped his lost leg. The family too it for...
It is so weird that they call it an emotionally based illness because there are no physical signs but then demonstrate physical signs to confirm...
It sounds like he believes ME is just fatigue. That is what happens when all the other symptoms of ME are ignored by the "experts" and their...
Sadly, in the UK especially under the FND work but elsewhere as well CFS and fibromyalgia are being used more and more as simply symptoms. if you...
I think you can safely say you have an abnormal response to exercise. Before I knew very much about ME I was still active up to a point, mildly...
I seem to remember the theory of post polio syndrome is that the polio virus damages the end plates of the muscles and as they are used they...
That seems like a very good way to categorize what we can do. Dr David Bell from the Lyndonville epidemic said that his patients could do lots of...
That is not a paraphrase, that is the complete opposite of what I am saying so I want to make that very clear. (My GP only has one code for ME and...
CFS is a wastebasket diagnosis. There are no wastebasket patients. Before CFS became a big thing in the UK people were told they had depression,...
We get used to things, don't we :) I think it is very likely you are right about the brain not being able to process information. Like you, I have...
Blindsight is where someone goes blind in one eye after a stroke. If they are shown a picture of a lorry in the blind eye they do not see it but...
The paper, which was a PhD dissertation, was discussed in Time magazine a short time after it was published. That could not have happened without...
Oh, that one is easy. The example I read was justifying a diagnosis of epilepsy and psychogenic epilepsy (called pseudoepilepsy in the article) If...
Unfortunately, that 40 years of research has had about as much funding as 1 year of MS research (maybe more but definitely not much) and much of...
Myalgic encephalomyelitis was a specific disease. When the CDC sent a team to investigate the outbreak at Lake Tahoe they ignored those doctors...
I think if you get sore throats, swollen glands, flu like feeling or just feeling sicker, rather than just tired or exhausted, you have PEM. If...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a such a vague diagnosis that it can cover many things since fatigue is such a common symptom but ME is a specific...
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