I get on fine with metformin, have taken it for about 8 years now. I have been taking low dose glycaziade for a year or so now as well. My problem...
It is the difference between people with disabilities and people with a chronic illness. (Though, of course there is an overlap.) If they are...
Alcohol intolerance was seen as very common in the days before CFS. It has always struck me as something that has not been considered enough. TV...
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Too many mental illnesses, especially in research, are diagnosed by questionnaires. Add up the scores, job done. Can't sleep, one point for...
It would be good to think they actually looked at clinical, pathological anxiety but given the evidence I think it is unlikely. So many of our...
Singing and dancing are good for people and something has been lost from life as we have stopped being performers and become consumers. It being...
In the 90s I think it was work was done to show that it all depended on which questionnaire you used to diagnose depression. One found that...
I walk too much I get terrible pain in my legs, do things with my arms, pain in arms and so on. The pain is a direct result of doing too much and...
Quick background - dry eye and eye pain was often dismissed because nothing was apparent on examination, but doctors who believed patients worked...
In MS, individual patients have a wide range of symptoms depending on which nerves are affected by the disease. This is apparent in the early...
There was a paper published about GP usage in the year before diagnosis. They found that there were more visits and concluded that this showed we...
I see what you are saying. It is like the way I say I am a little bit tired when I mean I am about to fall over :) Acceptable can be heard as much...
GET carries within it the idea that the illness is being perpetuated by not doing enough and deconditioning. Pacing accepts that we are sicker...
Also worrying is that there is a discussion of this trial on another forum where it is seen as adding to the evidence that vaccines are only a way...
That was the rational behind the CDC "research" that phoned people up at random and found that some people with CFS did not even know they were ill!
"“If the thing is triggered by an abnormal or excessive immune response, if we could find a way to reduce that immune response, we might stop...
We have to remember we are not typical patients, analysing everything said to us. If the specialist tells you that doing a walk every day is going...
When Les Simpson found deformed RBCs he did so by examining cells as soon as they were taken from the patient. AS soon as they were put into...
The BPSers have used the days before Christmas to publicise things before. I can't remember details, but I do remember feeling upset and angry....
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