ME was also known as epidemic vertigo. Over the years, I have suspected that CFS+FM is actually ME because the fukuda definition does not cover...
It is forgotten now with all the problems with the published PACE results but while it was being set up we felt that the whole thing was designed...
I saw the article on the BBC news front page at 9.45am and was surprised (astounded!) as I thought it would be another attack on ME patients. I...
I can't see moving images as it is processing within the brain that is the problem, not fast enough for tracking. Double vision has plagued me...
I think this could be a failure of proprioception which is not discussed in ME the way it used to be. Many of us have a negative Romberg test...
I think our brain functions are on a knife edge, we manage only when things are ideal, any stress on the system knocks it over. Stimulants can be...
This is not an attack on you, and I believe that you have this experience but one of the things we are up against, is that people who overuse the...
He seems to have severe mental issues and posts very strange things about numerology and medieval type alchemy stuff. He will talk about a drug or...
It is very sad that so many children are too ill to attend school, however it does not give a complete picture and could skew the figures. I...
He also did a study after 9/11 to show that ill effects were psychological, not the result of toxins. It said so on a TV documentary I think. He...
There was an article in the New Scientist a few weeks ago about deconditioning. They said that birds "train" for long migrations by putting on fat...
A while ago, a US doctor did research on GWS which showed biomedical abnormalities. I can't remember the details but it was reported in the New...
I had an OT who made all the difference to me. For one thing she pushed for me to get a wheelchair which I had never considered and which then...
The frustrating thing is that we have known what to do for years. Nigel Speight has said that many of his patients improved or recovered. The...
It may well have been a mistaken discovery, but politics were definitely involved, even if the story has been sanitised over the years. It was not...
Is the point not that ME patients, even if not all of them, do not have the same results on the second day? It is so taken for granted that...
I was never very excited about the XMRV research because treating retroviruses is so difficult that it's biggest effect would have been proof we...
The mass hysteria thing was something that the average doctor thought but didn't care about, it was just a medical curiosity. A lot of work was...
I think they are afraid of ME because it could be a bottomless pit as everyone feels fatigue. I've often thought it very devious that the same...
Actually I think most of this thread has missed the point. SW is very, very clever. He qualified as a doctor but there are hundreds of doctors in...
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