This is interesting and I had not thought about it that way. Being stuck here with little to do but read, it is fascinating how much was going...
This is what I mean by having to distort evidence and invoke some strange new concept of disease. No one had any problem with polio being the...
ME was described from epidemics which means that it is the description of an infectious disease. That can only be a physical illness. We may...
Of course, CFS covers so many things that it is possible to be given this diagnosis without any of the cardinal ME symptoms so CBT and GET may...
Nobody we know of in the pace trial regained old roles and abilities. I would love that.
Wow, they managed to get enough bad science in there to carry on denigrating their white patients while being insulting to other races. What a talent.
Well with those sorts of qualifications he will be published in the BMJ soon.
ME became CFS and the psychiatrists took over. The researchers who had been working on me for years were sidelined and grants dried up. I know I...
Convalescence after an infection (and fruit!) was still used in the 70's. I think that may have been because it was not that long since...
I agree most of us do not get enough exercise nowadays but looking at our evolution we are actually quite strange in that regard. We keep our...
:banghead::banghead::banghead::sick:
I loved my music, was thinking about joining an amateur orchestra or open mike nights but I could not lift the weight of my flute anymore and my...
Congratulations, well done. Thanks for what you do for us.
The fatigue in MS is very different from the PEM that is experienced in ME, but it is like that experienced in a lot of diseases, mainly due to...
Oops, edited my post to add missing word. My eyes bounce from side to side very quickly for about 30 seconds then I just carry on reading. Being...
It is worse than that. I have been trying to get together articles for a post but have had a crash, but the likes of Stone and others were much...
Eye movements have a particular problem here. I saw a documentary recently about an eye disease looking at children. Most of these children had...
So mass hysteria turns out to be organophosphate poisoning, who'd have thought it (sarcasm)
I've never understood the link with depression. They ignored all the symptoms which made ME different then said what was left was the same as...
It has never made sense to me why everyone was so keen to get rid of ME as a distinct disorder. Right from the start it had features that were...
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