Over the years, too many promising studies have never been replicated in large trials. For instance, the heart problems found in the NIH studies...
The recent studies on vision problems are the sort of things I have been wanting for years. They actually looked at something that is a big...
In the days before CFS and the emphasis on fatigue, there were imaging brain studies which showed the parts of the brain which controlled...
I do not experience pain and fatigue as dangerous. Telling me they are not dangerous is completely beside the point. The "fatigue" (I would...
Biopsychosocial approaches are very specific. They distinguish between disease, which is what goes wrong in the body and illness, which is the...
There was a study done by the MEAssociation research fund (I think!) many years ago which had significant results for magnesium sulphate. It is...
We know that ME happens in epidemics and clusters and organophosphate poisoning in rural areas gives a syndrome similar to ME. Glandular fever is...
Thank you Sunshine. I don't mean to bring the personal into a discussion thread but sometimes it all seems just too much. I am so grateful to the...
I haven't read all of this thread, I am finding it too upsetting. The 27th July this year is a milestone in my life. It will be 50 years since I...
Going back to an earlier point, I have never minded being asked if I have mental health problems, I don't even mind them asking whether CFS has a...
I hope everything will become clearer and we will have a better vocabulary to talk about this sort of thing with more and better research into...
It's not as if the brain is a complicated organ :banghead: If you have a shared set of symptoms in a group of people it suggests a possible...
It isn't just women. In 1972 my uncle was not doing well, I can't remember exactly what happened but other people kept telling the family how bad...
There is one point that is important about GET that I don't see mentioned. In 1990 I was advised to do more exercise, but I had a three year old...
In the days before CFS the general feeling seemed to be that ME was more common in people who were not able to rest enough when they became ill....
I am very wary of anyone who worked in King's college, Wessley's home and any trial that think's CFS is extreme tiredness is not one where anyone...
Just for information Ramsay and the others examined patients just after they became ill. By the time you wait 6 months the symptoms will not be...
I get exactly the symptoms you describe, Inara. They are a central part of my experience of ME and have happened regularly since the beginning...
I had a terrible reaction to metaclopramide too. To myself, I called it a pathological restlessness. If I was sitting I felt I would explode if I...
So young, so naive it brings a tear to the eye :hug: or was that sarcasm?
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