Co‐occurrence of immune‐mediated conditions and endometriosis among adolescents and adult women, Shafrir et al, 2021 The sample of (mostly young)...
This is an earlier study related to the one above: Gynecological history in chronic fatigue syndrome: a population-based case-control study, 2010,...
Early menopause and other gynecologic risk indicators for CFS in women, 2015, Boneva, Lin, Unger A study of 157 women in Georgia, US, based on a...
Endometriosis: A Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Data from a Cohort of 4,083 Patients, With Focus on Symptoms, 2022, Signorile et al There is...
There was a UK MEA survey, I'm not sure how many people/women answered. It was reported that 15.5% of the respondents said that they had...
It is often suggested that rates of endometriosis are higher in women with ME/CFS than in women in general. I thought it would be useful to put...
Great to hear of some hope for early detection of endometriosis. It's frustrating that we still don't even have decent information about this....
Yes, vision does get worse with age, although I think short-sightedness is pretty stable during adulthood. I had had a stable vision measurement...
Posts about floaters have been moved to: Floaters, visual snow syndrome and blurry vision
Just finding this thread, the description of visual snow is a revelation. I definitely get that, just like the picture. I have previously talked...
When I first got ME/CFS, I too noted lots of floaters. I did report it to my GP, but I think she thought I was just being hyper vigilant. I guess...
From a quick skim of the paper: They had a control group that hadn't had Covid-19, and they had groups who had mild and severe Covid-19. The...
Oh, now I feel bad about posting a puerile comment about someone's acronym. Not quite bad enough to delete it.
Umm, I make that "A WEE", not "AWE". But I guess "The Power of A Wee" didn't have quite the same ring to it for the title of a self-help book.
Isn't that a bit of a weird statement? MS has MRI imaging that eventually shows the physical problem - there's no need to resort to whether there...
There's a paywall. This has the potential to be an interesting study. It would be helpful to know the incidence of noise and light...
I'll play. There isn't much detail at the Clinical Trials site. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05676008 1. waitlist-controlled clinical...
[ATTACH] There's the results of the GDF-15 levels in this study (the boxes are the interquartile range). Clearly some of the patients with a CFS...
We've seen high GDF-15 implicated in hyperemesis in pregnancy and also in severe ME/CFS - more here. This Spanish study makes no reference to the...
I also note "Long covid syndrome" on that list - which is a bit problematic, as Long covid syndrome could be all sorts of things, including ME/CFS.
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