I don't expect to see much change in time to make a great deal of difference to me, to be honest. But I'm sure we'll find drugs eventually that...
I know this wasn't addressed to me, but when I think about it, all I get is a question in return. If there is a really effective disease modifying...
It would have been very useful for me. Doing part time fixed-term contracts could have meant I was able to stay in work longer, using a system of...
I wonder whether it's occurred to them to do this study on people with chronic pain caused by cancer, or inflammatory arthritis, or basically...
Happy new year, Mike, and have a good one in Norway! I don't have any contacts there, but other folk might.
Ah, but that would need a psychologist who hasn't been drinking the Kool-Aid. Who of course would be ignored by the rest, because... Seriously,...
As someone who knows nothing about drug trials ... would it be feasible to save research money by running two concurrent trials, e.g. LDN and...
My reason for not trying it was that I typically take a dose of tramadol for nighttime pain at least twice a week, which works well and doesn't...
Could it be repackaged in a pharmaceutical shell, so that it's not obvious? I suppose that could cut across informed consent, though.
I hit the same issue. I can only describe pain using sound metaphors, e.g. one element of my chronic pain is like flowing traffic on a...
She also writes for the Graun, and has a piece today in fact. I've never read anything written by her about postviral illness; her usual...
We probably need a noise-cancelling-headphones-and-sleep-mask combo, don't we!
True, but there are also the options of making care a more attractive option by offering workers formal training and career progression, and...
Children under 16 are, as are people born before a particular date in the 1940s (my former neighbour is still on it, as he'd reached retirement...
PS: before buying a bar stool, it's worth making sure it's the right height. I'm quite tall for a woman at 5' 9", but I still can't get onto a...
My friend has some very like these in her kitchen, which are sturdy and comfortable enough to work on in the kitchen. They old almost flat:...
Or maybe just give the grant straight to the patients, because they'd be a whole lot less stressed if they could afford to live somewhere that...
Interesting. I suppose if they don't have a policy of setting priorities for specific named conditions, then that's probably the best outcome that...
I've used the example of a sprained ankle, as it's an injury most people have probably had at some point. Even when the ankle's recovered enough...
But there's also ... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/25/long-covid-patients-unproven-expensive-treatments-experts-warn
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