OK working my way through this, a few things worth mentioning to help other people get into it. B cells are from Bone and T cells are from...
Another thing to be careful of is the old association vs causation error. The association of virus episodes prior to ME onset might be seen as...
They must be aware of the Rituximab results, agree will be interested to see what the full paper is saying. I am just "delighted" they are...
I am, that fits my CFIDS symptoms to a tee.
Interesting, this appears to be more specifically about what I have which is comforting to see. Makes me glad I backed the LSHTM biobank. ME...
On that last question, yes bicarb definitely makes air hunger worse for me but helps carby burn. Dr Cheney thinks the body has a natural response...
I dont know about these specific studies but it raises an increasingly important and politically relelvant issue regarding the nature of ME as a...
I am not sure how this theory matches/meshes with with Dr Cheney's clinical observations. From personal experience I found about a decade ago...
FYI in case it is relevant, Dr Paul Cheney theorised that PWME had intracellular acidosis and extracellular alkalosis causing difficulties with...
https://www.healthline.com/health/sweet-taste-in-mouth#causes It could be a bug. I remember you made a post about having severe multiple...
IMHO the biggest problem with all the criteria is they do not consider TH2 shifting. i.e. raised allergic tendency. The problem is most of the...
Interesting question. Strikes me there is no knowing at this juncture. From my own experience and others' reports, people often experience...
Seahorse, summary of inconsistent results in previous studies....
Both is the right answer IMHO since you ask. What you have to bear in mind @Trish is that most disease symptoms are caused by the immune response...
No, yet ironic that non friends are talking about subgroups, which is where imho we all need to be heading. Call me cynical, but the devil is in...
It would be nice and easy if we could assume Tomas et al are the gold standard by which to judge Myhill et al but as I see it, its not the case...
@richie something changed, lets put it like that, wasn't all good though. I gave up nightshades because they were giving me mouth ulcers....
I think its a credible response from Dr Myhill and Dr McLaren Howard. In my experience as a patient who had these tests, this response is correct...
I think it was good that Tomas et al decided to look at this and I hope they will stay interested and keep asking questions as I am sure they are...
Dont Panic ! ;) Not a problem if diagnosis is made on clinical presentation, which I probably should have said, was the case, especially for my...
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