Your point is forcefully expressed and I would think many on here sympathise with that force of feeling. I take a different view 1) Your own...
Once you start with a definition of ME which excludes actual biophysical aetiology (ongoing) , everything we say about this or that not addressing...
What is need is the acceptance, as with e.g. depression , that different approaches suit different people. Talking for one, psych pills for...
This is the whole thing. He cannot any longer be objective about his condition because objectivity would threaten his own recovery. It's part of...
All I can say is I believe I am better for taking low risk chances and I know others too. In at least one case the weight of reasonable evidence...
As a patient I have been happy for certain biophysical doctors to take action on the basis of evidence which other doctors would have dismissed as...
We need some latitude on evidence because it happens many times that a condition is real and biophysical but is dismissed or psychologised for...
Yes, and it is pretty evident in both LP and RT writings that HPA axis and specifically sympathetic overdrive (SO) is what they are on about. But...
You'd get the brush off from many of their advocates and enthusiasts.: 1) Definitions By the admittance of some of their practitioners, they...
Merged thread Covid linked to risk of mental illness and brain disorder, study suggests | Coronavirus | The Guardian I haven't seen the paper...
I am concerned about the potential of the PTSD angle. Not in as far as it might examine purely psychiatric symptoms but because of the risk that...
1) Lyme is known as a cause of actual encephalomyelitis and myalgia. 2) In the old days CFS sufferers were said to want CFS/ME, or ME diagnosis in...
If Me is as you describe, that does no an any imply that there are not sufferers from long term infections who may overlap considerably with ME....
Psychocentral cases. Plus those on the way to remission in need of a push and those in the overlap. Theoretically maybe some with a virus who are...
Seconded. Plus should we be seeking diagnostic or informative testing (lupus is (often) diagnosed by test panels). IS atest invalid just because...
My hope is that all is not lost in this matter. It may be that some practitioners rather than My/Mc presented/used this test as diagnostic. Did...
Having now read...
Agreed From my position of ignorance your point sounds reasonable (no sarcasm intended btw). That's the kind of issue which it would be...
McL is a senior scientist and it is reasonable not to expect such errors, though I accept your implication that in real life labs they do occur....
Such questions need to be asked.
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