How similar is PEM to how one might feel after they exerted themselves during a bad infection? I'm trying to think back to when I had an infection...
This is the study mentioned by Younger in his most recent video. Couldn't find a thread on this paper.
In this pilot study, a human intravenous injection of low-dose endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) model was used to test if fibromyalgia is...
The idea of measuring the signaling response to a stimuli is a good way to go about this. If there ends up being a signaling problem, there has to...
What about a shift in how certain brain cells are utilizing energy. If there is some subtle shift in the way energy is generated perhaps cells...
It must also be the case that almost everyone is using the term incorrectly. Most of the websites I have visited suggest that FND is due to some...
Ahh ok I understand the nuance now. People with FND do not have any pathology but only in a definitional sense. It is impossible to have FND and...
I thought we agreed that FND is a label to describe a condition where some symptoms can not be currently be attributed to some identifiable...
Some threads discussing papers which showed abnormal brain lactate:...
I don't think it was expected to be a cure for GWI. Even finding a treatment helps with symptoms can be useful and tell us something about what is...
How about idiopathic non-epileptic seizures? Because we don't know the cause of FND, I don't think the label should be particularly specific. I...
I wish they could be a little more humble. But I think a lot of these people are actually convinced they do know the answer. People become...
Yes the hypocrisy is infuriating. It really is a lose-lose situation for everyone but the FND advocates. However, the only way out of this mess...
What good timing. This is exactly the kind of research we need to dismantle the FND bandwagon.
I agree that separating ME/CFS from FND is very important. Both for patients and to make sure research doesn't get mixed up and reduce the...
I am certainly in agreement on that. Any replacement term for FND would inherit the baggage of the prior labels, just like FDN has connotations of...
There are so many great comments here. I do now think there are a group of patients, who after an extensive workup have certain common issues and...
Thanks for explaining, I deleted the comment because I came upon David's blog on it which answered the question for me! For some reason I can...
In that specific context I understand the use of FND as label. My only pushback is on the implication about causes and on the misuse of that...
If FND refers to a neurological condition with no known cause then I have absolutely no issue with that. It would be like if hEDS only referred to...
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