Amantadine and L-carnitine treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9018019...
Here is a good counterargument: according to them, GET is enough to cure patients and as effective as CBT. GET does incorporate some elements of...
I am reading carefully and they lean heavily on the fear-avoidance model of pain. Their position is that something similar is happening with CFS....
Reading the 1989 paper, I'm not getting the impression they are proposing extreme illness beliefs that would prevent a patient from taking any...
Not that I know, but why would you run a RCT if you expected that none of the target patient population would participate?
The counterargument is that the PACE authors themselves believed that these illness beliefs are not sufficiently strong to prevent patients from...
https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2017/abstract/effect-of-cbt-get-and-pacing-treatments-mecfs-symptoms-analysis-of-patient...
If patients clearly know beforehand that exercise is bad for them, why are there so many reports of patients trying GET and getting worse? I'm...
Yet if PACE had been a success, the CBT/GET proponents would undoubtedly present it as evidence that their illness model is correct.
Strictly speaking yes, but then nothing could ever really be disproved. In practice you have the draw the line somewhere and be selective because...
The only way to prove that patients have learned to be ill even in absence of biological disruption is by proving that they can unlearn their...
This idea that SEID is a very broad case definition akin to Oxford criteria is promoted by people much like the current author and I think they...
IOM report is probably the best for this purpose. Can't be easily dismissed and is very clear about this.
Also: the number of patients that can trace the onset of their illness to the lake Tahoe outbreak is probably just a few hundred or thousand....
Dislike. There are alternative interpretations for much of this stuff. ME is not considered to be a distinct disease because the underlying...
http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/118949/young-woman-from-norden-cause-of-death-attributed-to-myalgic-encephalomyelitis
@Jonathan Edwards she was found to have ganglionitis, low grade brain inflammation, and "destruction of nerve fibres".
An article by Cort about the ME/CFS conference in Canada...
The idea of having to put in more effort to do even simple tasks sounds true to me though. It's probably just an indication of mental fatigue....
Same mistakes being made again. Nevermind all these other illnesses that were falsely claimed to be psychogenic, this time they surely got it...
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