With the knowledge we have now, I think it is fair to say that post infectious syndromes have ME-like symptoms without the broken aerobic system...
The definition for CFS is so loose that many people with Lyme (and lots of other things) fit within it, but that is just more confusion, not an...
This is all so back to front. From experience with family members I accept that some people have bowel problems when under stress. The "fight or...
That variation was what Dr Ramsay felt to be the cardinal symptom of ME along with an abnormal response to exercise. We have corrected the...
I was describing the problems with EC's work to a friend when I realised something. Bristol is behind training social workers and the police that...
No matter what our criticisms are or how valid they may be the BPSers will call it harassment. The scientists who back us are the ones we do not...
So significant differences between subjective and objective observations are related to underlying psychological factors. What does that say about...
I am not sure but I think they must mean physical disease when they talk about somatoform disorders if they are distinguishing them from...
A very important point. Until we know more about the mechanism and can measure what is going on underneath, there is no way that pushing exercise...
The evidence is clear now, that people with ME have a defect in their aerobic respiration system which means that their anaerobic threshold is...
For a long while after CFS, ME was taken being depression. There was the odd bit about deconditioning and other things but it never formed a...
A recent article in the New Scientist said that all the evidence for food was just rubbish. Common sense says moderation is probably a good thing...
It was designed by a guy who "overcame" his MS and is now passing his knowledge onto everyone else. I think there is a charity set up, but of...
JES, this is a genetic problem which affects some people. I always thought it was due to my ME but my healthy daughter and son both have the same....
Like all these trials they have found that people who were able to finish the course were not so ill as people who were not. The more of the...
Initial post and some subsequent posts copied or moved from this thread. I can't stand this "positive outlook" push for the chronically ill. I...
I can't stand this "positive outlook" push for the chronically ill. I go to an MS therapy centre and about a month ago they got in lots of stuff...
I do know that neurologists are looked on as doctors who couldn't quite cut it as neurosurgeons. Years ago I read about an activist who was...
Thank you for your kind words. I wasn't really ill just not right with strange neurological symptoms like not being able to talk sometimes that I...
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