This is a description of typical EBV infection which the Americans were obsessed with at that time. Stephen Straus was brought into the CDC and...
I often wonder why people don't dread ME. I suspect it is just too scary so it is easier to think people are exaggerating. A disease which can...
Many of the doctors I have seen have been caring but they are taught certain things as facts and never revisit them. Instinctively they know that...
Very few people die of actual MS. The mortality comes from the same reasons as it does in ME mainly the consequences of immobility. One notable...
This is one of the issues I have with FND. They treat it with physio and CBT to persuade patients that there is no actual disease. There seems...
i had problems with hypoglycaemia for years. it was very frustrating as it cut in when i felt able to do something. Well enough to take the kids...
He is the one who compared it to neurasthenia. The victorians felt it was due to their version of modern life and city living but they were a long...
For what it is worth, high levels of stress make my me feel better. I believe that I work on adrenalin (or something, it would be good to have it...
We do not know if our fatigue is a protective response against a problem with our biology the way it is in things like flu. If it is, stimulants...
Microbes are so interesting and change all the time yet they are almost taken for granted by many medical people as if they were something that...
After the birth of my first child I experienced deep black depressions. The first few times I thought it was a reaction to my circumstances which...
What it shows is that basic physiology of mammals is completely known. It may be a long time before the relevance to ME treatment can be worked...
Talk about confirmation bias! The diagnosis remains constant because they miss the same thing all the time. If you decide acne is a sign of a...
They also found VP1 in muscle tissue and it might have been found in gut tissue as well.
It may not be relevant to what they are saying here, but one x chromosome is switched off in every cell in a woman. this is the barr body (?) that...
When they started with their GET rubbish Ramsay said that what defines ME as a disease is that it is made worse by exercise so if anyone gets...
They probably all got it at the same time. Coxsackie B gives you "summer flu". As usual with infections once you have had it your immune system...
I also started being able to touch my toes after many years of ME but it felt as if I did not have the muscle tone to stop my body bending.
I can't remember who said it, he was someone in the medical establishment at the time of the royal colleges report. He said that ME was a new...
They did a couple of brain biopsies in the UK just when CFS was invented and they found vp1 which is actual pieces of enterovirus. They also found...
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