The Medscape piece is lousy but this seemed to me reasonable. If the main problem was shortness of breath then ME/CFS would not be something to...
Yes, and I think rightly so because it was originally intended to indicate an illness due to one specific unknown virus with features suggestive...
But that is obviously an inappropriate analogy since for ME/CFS we have pretty good evidence of it being triggered by a wide range of infections,...
No it is just a matter of the facts. You cannot define an illness as being due to Blue Meanies that have only been seen in one case at midnight in...
In fact I am not quite sure what the status of 'ME' was by 1983. That was after McEvedy and Beard and presumably after the interest in...
The new NICE guidelines do not define ME/CFS as post-infective. I said very often not as far as we know on the basis that most accounts of ME/CFS...
I m not aware that any of the familiar definitions of ME/CFS make onset after infection a defining, or required, feature. I think if people want a...
What seems to me particularly unfortunate is that the fringe physicians are generating all these pseudoscientific theories about things like MCS...
Looking at the patient support group URLs I can see that confusion is widespread but this looks like the EDS situation where the support group...
I don't understand this. As far as I know MCS and MCAS are in no way alternative names like ME and CFS. They are two quite different problems....
But nobody is likely to have read it. My testimony is an attempt to explain the blinding/subjective issue to people who do not understand. I...
It relates to application of the BPS approach. That is predominantly an issue for unexplained chronic pain and ME but it can spread out into all...
Dr Katie McDonnell has on her twitter handle: Working class, clinical psychologist. Pro social equality and justice. Views are all mine! I...
But isn't that just the workrate as measured by force x distance in terms of useful output (I assume a bike or treadmill). That isn't total...
Same villains, I suspect.
I think it is a mistake to say ME/CFS falls under PAPIS. ME/CFS is not defined by being post-infective and very often is not, as far as we know....
I have spent some time on several occasions trying to get to grips with what MCAS might actually be. The literature is dominated by a single...
Do you mean MCAS or MCS? The two are unrelated. I don't think there is good reason to think MCS is immunological. And I am not sure why either...
Sadly, the piece on this site is just as much make-believe. The villains in all this are the medical professionals spinning tales on both sides...
I am not sure that 'Multiple Chemical Sensitivity' is a useful term, rather than simply sensitivity to odours. Nevertheless, reading this report...
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