This reminds me of a funny quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy:
Good answer. I had always assumed they said there wasn't an illness, too.
Did McE & B mention the metabolic tests too? Things like creatinine phosphokinase, lactic dehydrogenase, glutamic oxalo-acetic transaminase,...
Ramsay notes both were used and that both showed positive results. It's possible these results were really normal, too, but I'm not convinced they...
One thing worth pointing out is that in many of the outbreaks, the ratio of men:women was 1:1. Ramsay actually lists the ratios for every...
Well exactly!
But then how does this hypothesis extend to other patient groups where this group isn't the main cohort?
He probably wrote it in his bio and they regurgitate it.
It's assumptions like this that make me distrust their conclusions. And the fact they never examined any patients. Even if they had a kernel of...
I think most psychiatrists would use the first meaning. Histrionic disorder is its own thing, with its own meaning.
The guy who's posted it seems to think ME 'has a lot in common with depression', although patients would deny it. *sigh* And he's supposedly a...
Yes, but how much of a change? Should HR increase or decrease at AT/VT? Where do mild/moderate/severe patients fall?
What do you make of the two-day CPET studies? Apparently, even MS and COPD patients repeat their results (or get better) due to the effect of...
I may be wrong too, but I came to a slightly different understanding. I think the point is that some neurological symptoms imply a lesion. If the...
No acute illness can be said to be 'ME'. ME is what happens afterwards. I think even Ramsay (and people like Hyde now) would say that, too. What...
Interesting that people accessed AfYME materials. Aren't they defunct now? I'm not surprised that they found patient-led resources better than...
I'm sceptical of the 'sleep and then recover' bit. It's not usually that easy to escape PEM.
I think the problem is that most of these tests and signs haven't been objectively proven or put to the test in a meaningful way that clearly...
This is also why I have trouble believing McEvedy and Beard's arguments. They may have been right that the objective neurological evidence wasn't...
Thank you.
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