@2:12:20 He says crashes last for days. I would have preferred it if he mentioned crashes that last for months, years or even indefinitely as in...
May be modern thermometers are more accurate.
According to this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2379748/?page=2, the ME Association said there were 150,000 people in the UK...
Can someone tell me what psychosocial exploration is? It sounds like a scam used to dismiss patient's symptoms as minor and inconsequential...
Didn't Charles Shepard say he was taught in the 1970's that ME was "hysterical nonsense"? I'm beginning to wonder if GPs ever took ME seriously.
7 days? I've had payback lasting over 12 years and counting. There needs to be acknowledgement of harm from exertion that lasts for years or even...
Wrong. What about an adverse reaction to exercise and exertion? To be fair she doesn't seem to use the phrase ME but surely she's aware of the...
To add to what I said, I think inflating the figures is counter productive to advocacy. Take this example:...
The population of the UK is 66,440,000. 0.2% = 132,880. I doubt that many people have real ME, chronic fatigue may be but not ME. I suspect...
What was that Wessely said about a little less t-cells and a little more psychology?
I believe that worsening of health (permanent or otherwise) is a symptom and doctors should have the basic respect for their patients to believe...
I'm disappointed that Jonathan Edwards didn't mention that exercise harms ME patients, sometimes indefinitely as in my case.
I have to be careful with painkillers because I have an extremely low threshold for injury and can easily exert myself. The pain is localized and...
Last time I had a home visit was about 5 years ago and my GP told me that GET was the best evidence-based treatment for ME.
CRPS is a wastebasket diagnosis.
Neurasthenia is seen as psychosomatic. Associating it with ME is one of Wessely's tricks.
They conflate chronic fatigue with ME and use no control group.
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I would drop this line because CFS means something different and is too easily conflated with fatigue.
In my parents house me and my brother would have a runny nose all the time that got worse in winter. Later in 2004 I got a Flixonase nasal spray...
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