Why not just measure the time spent lying down? That would be less subjective than questionnaires that ask about feelings. If you don't have a...
Nope, certainly not while you have fever or first a few days of infection. But I was able to get back on the trail on the second week of COVID...
10-100w in 10 min is fairly modest for healthy people. They could study the effect of moderate exercise on cold/flu patients without too much...
You can put a flu/cold patients on 2-day CPET test and see if the performance decreases on the second day. No reason why you can't. It may need to...
They may be yet to find million new things about virus, I don't know. The problem with any old/new findings about virus is that they don't explain...
Do we really need to disprove? We typically assume X is false and then try to prove otherwise. There have been more than adequate attempts at...
It's true that they may not be able to extrapolate the result to severely ill patients. But it would be still valid, at least for...
I don't think too many patients check AQI, PM, CO, etc. on regular basis. I'd guess that there is sufficient blinding. Except for obvious events...
I think this is where the distinction between exercise-intolerance and exercise-inability becomes useful. Most of mitochondrial "PEM" I've read...
For what it's worth, I used to get PEM just by squatting down and getting back up a couple of times. This was when I was able to walk at 90...
I'm guessing that the first number (p=0.0998) is for the population of studies (k=4) and the second number (p<0.05) is for the population of...
Congrats for getting over the virus! I'm still coughing also, but it's fairly well controlled and productive. It seems I'm recovering my smell...
If you don't mind PEM, your muscle mass will increase with exercise. Back in 2010, I temporarily moved to a new city. I did 2x4 pushups and/or 2x4...
Sound vaguely like an allergy. For what it's worth, my working model of ME/CFS has been an allergy to exertion or a byproduct of exertion. The...
Happy holidays to y'all. This paper on recovery after 2-day CPET test might shed some light on the important topic of rest-vs-activity on long...
I think MECFS patients are way more likely to exert more than they are allowed to, not less than they need to. Those couple of people that you...
It's now 5th day since my symptoms appeared. I sedated myself heavily last night with 2 sleeping pills and cough suppressant and now I seem to be...
Severe PEMs that last months feel like that in my experience. And it does take some time for me to get back to the baseline after the PEM is over....
For what it's worth, I view symptoms and threshold imposed by worsening of symptoms as two different things. If I know that I'm not going to get...
I'm in bed with one right now, for the second time in 3 years. No, I haven't got it tested; I'm away from my other home and don't have access to...
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