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Good as far as it goes, and credit to the authors for both asking the question and accepting the implications of the answer. What is the bet that they instead turn to blaming the less regulated, more informal social media, which is often blamed as a primary means for the transmission of...

We recognise that care for people with ME/CFS has varied widely, and in the worst cases has left some people feeling that their illness is not recognised by the health and care system. It has left more than a few people dead, and many many many more with destroyed desperate lives. Either the...

Also, it is not just a simple quantitative improvement (less ME), it feels qualitatively different too.

Can't add anything, or even offer any helpful suggestions. Just thinking of all those caught up in this shitfest, and wishing the best for you. :thumbsup:

30mg is correct. IIRC, in Europe they use the comma instead of the period for the decimal point, to avoid confusion because the period can also represent multiplication.

WTF? o_O Feeling dizzy and lightheaded after a physical blow to the head is psychosomatic?

Thanks for asking. The only low reading I am getting is ferritin, but very low. The other iron measures seem more-or-less okay, including no anaemia. Had real trouble getting the ferritin level to even start coming up, took a year of daily iron to move it from 12 to just 46, which is barely...

Privacy is the most underrated of rights and protections.

I typically feel better in the early stages of a cold or flu, before it hit full strength. Usually only for 24 hours or so. I noticed that before I was diagnosed with, or even knew about, ME/CFS.

There is no 'feel' about it. The disbelief and mistreatment is very real and pernicious. It is not merely dismissive and unsupportive. It has extremely serious adverse consequences for patients.

Way too little, way too late, BMJ. You have blood of millions of cruelly destroyed lives on your hands via your unrelenting unapologetic uncritical support for the psychosomatic cult and its fraudulent claims, and helping it to take such deep root in the entire governance structure. This is the...

all grants for pathobiology studies that RECOVER funded in 2022 and 2023 were canceled this week. Patients, in the USA at least, are being handed straight back to the psycho-behavioural gang to do as they wish. Except it will be worse this time. We finally start getting somewhere, and then...

I agree that any explanation has to cover both abrupt and more gradual remissions. The word 'remission' could also be a bit (unintentionally) misleading. I don't think that a modest short-term improvement (hours-days, maybe a few weeks?) could be called a remission, nor that it requires any...

This. The USA's loss will be the rest of the world's gain.

First rule of Psychworld: Deny error in proportion to the error and its consequences.

To explore perceptions of... ...GPs It's perceptions all the way down.

for patients where routine diagnostic methods of medicine do not explain their problems and conventional therapy does not meet with the desired effect, a consistent psychosomatic approach is a necessity. 'If we cannot find a cause and do not have an effective treatment, it must be...

Future research should focus on education and standardized guidelines to enhance patient care. A better start might be identifying physicians with these appalling attitudes and throwing them out of the profession.

Not even that much. It is 'true' for no more reason than they want it to be. Because if it isn't, they are completely discredited, and unemployed.

“I am excited to see what therapies develop as a result of this study and expand our knowledge of treatment for this condition.” There are some words in this game that I regard as warning signs. A researcher/clinician being 'excited' about their latest idea is definitely one of them.