Yes, but is it normal for them to deflate tso much that the skin protrudes inward? If it's not normal, what does it tell me about my illness?
I was sitting with my feet elevated high up and noticed that all the veins on my feet, which are usually protruding outward markedly when...
Reading that makes me think the founder of the institute doesn't spend time with his patients without a security escort.
I have developed a muscle specific fatigue. It feels like some muscles in the thigh are weak, and when exercised begin sending fatigue and...
I think people can't recognize problematic practices like relying on self-reported outcomes in CBT studies that set out of modify how participants...
Would it be useful for patients to try and identify particular activities or situations that cause a change from feeling okay to abnormally...
I find that my illness fluctuates over time. The illness severity determines whether events are stressful or managable, activities are exhausting...
If I remember right atypical ME in the context of the Canadian criteria means no infectious onset.
I think German advocacy succeeded because they were able to reach people in parliament with successful protests, after a very successful petition...
The mechanism behind the belief in psychosomatic illness appears to be that uncontrolled severe illness causes feelings of hopelessness and...
I can experience a drop in mood during PEM. It lasts only a day or two and gets better with rest.
Is it possible to demonstrate causality with these methods? I have doubts. Also the authors make the assumption that the thing that is called...
Does the "more likely to report clinical depression" group differ in other ways? Is this clinical depression being confused with ME/CFS, or is it...
He calls graded exercise therapy "pacing". I also looked at reference 3. The descriptions of a patient sounded more like POTS or a form of OI to...
I suspect the reason that GRADE does not allow for the possibility that a study is so bad as to be useless is that it wants to be attractive to...
It's impossible to have serious fatigue and not have reduced activity levels. The BPS people are telling nonsense again.
[ATTACH] The perpetuating factors of fatigue according to BPS people. It looks like thinly veiled patient blaming. Or at least sets the stage for...
I think antioxidants are somewhat helpful for me.
It's a convenient narrative to create or justify inequality in healthcare.
My guess is that higher socioeconomic status affects the ability to obtain a diagnosis, in particular when the problem is not easily diagnosable.
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