I dont think Canadian Consensus Criteria are reliable but I have had this test a few times and feel I ought to speak about my experience to...
Hi Chris, thanks for corresponding. I was wondering, could linkage be a possible factor in the statistical anomaly? i.e. could this SNP be...
I periodically have problems with muscular back pain which does not involve the kidneys but can involve the muscles in the lumbar region,...
Given this choice of title, I think the question moves the discussion to a political perspective. In theory it should be informed by clinical...
On a point of information re: mast cells, in case it helps, ME CFIDS of the kind I have is widely regarded as being associated with TH2 shift...
Wow, that's showbiz! IMHO we have to be really careful with these "comorbidities" about how we classify them. For example Lyme is probably...
I should probably have quoted the conclusion of the study on anaphylaxis to show the link with TH2 clearly. Since the anaphylactic mice are in...
Well, I would take the view that some stress models presume a priori that stress causes ME which I dont believe, though stress does undoubtedly...
A key concept in CFS / CFIDS is TH2 shift, which has been proposed by clinician Dr Paul Cheney for decades and others e.g....
This sounds familiar to me Marky and I have heard of other ME CFIDS patients saying they get this. I still get episodes of what I call an...
Purely FYI, I have heard of practices which claim to be able to treat ligament laxity for sports injuries etc under the name of "prolotherapy"....
I agree its problematic. I believe I am not alone in taking the view that this kind of fatigue is probably part of an immune response which is...
IMHO this whole situation exemplifies the problem we have with unspecific criteria, bucket no barrel no builders skip diagnosis and no ability to...
Trying to be helpful on this specific point, having tried to clear up my own muddle about misremembering ventral as opposed to the correct dorsal...
Dorsal, my mistake. Will correct my previous.
I agree with being very sceptical. The first question one asks oneself is whether this is misdiagnosis of another condition as ME or whether ME...
Secretly, or not so secretly now I am writing it on the WWW, I am wondering if PWME with more neurological symptoms might experience a subjective...
I agree with you, we simply dont understand the disease and we have no idea what the different presentations really represent. Those acting on...
It makes good sense that we should be trying to understand what helps. I am afraid though part of the difficulty is the intractability of the...
Well done everyone :)
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