I think it depends (as always!) on what you mean by 'fitness'. I too can build muscle in my shoulders, arms and core when ME allows me to swim –...
That's why I added 'in addition to'. I think questionnaires need to put more emphasis on the accumulation of daily or weekly activities than they...
There's all that, plus judgement. Whether it's judging how to go through a door frame without colliding with it, how to phrase a sentence without...
The more I read, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that the best way to estimate physical and mental fatigue levels in these studies might be...
Excellent news! Hopefully there'll be more once it's being recruited through GPs, as some people aren't big users of social media, some may...
No, at the same time. They're different drugs – paracetamol doesn't have the side-effects of potentially raising the risk of bleeding, gastric...
And if he really knew anything about ME – let alone grammatical logic – he'd understand that increasing a baseline is a contradiction in terms....
When I was going through a phase of almost constant pain from frequent hip subluxations, my GP suggested I take paracetamol and ibuprofen...
I hope you'll consider anonymously tweeting some of your spectacular turns of phrase in the direction of Sir Simon Himself, @rvallee – if nothing...
My thoughts exactly. Only with a different word at the end of the sentence.
Dr Pope's response is worrying, as we can't know whether or not Long Covid shares features with ME until the underlying processes have been...
In the sense that I can't achieve clarity and direction in my thinking and writing, then definitely yes. It's due to fatigue. I was never good at...
It would certainly be useful to study responses to extracellular ATP in detail, if it's possible to do so. It sounds like a really interesting...
They can be, but usually aren't – so don't worry too much. They will remove them if they're causing problems. I've had large ones removed from...
Just seen that BBC File on 4 has a programme tonight at 8pm called The Long Road to Recovery. (I don't know whether it's based on the recent...
The difficulty is going to be that some of the sequelae are difficult to treat, and that – for the specific symptoms that clearly indicate an ME...
Sleep initiation typically takes between two and five hours. I don't know what Z drugs are either, but I never take sleep meds anyway. The drugs...
Root canals are done because the pulp inside the tooth is infected, usually with bacteria. They're best done sooner rather than later, as it gives...
Interesting, we do have different problems with hips and shoulders. Hips sublux, in my case so often that I had a physio train up friends to shove...
From the experience of my own family, I also wonder if the coincidence of two heritable tendencies can present as 'EDS'. In a generally...
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