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Very weak article. First of all, none of those tweets are 'abusive' or threatening. Being rude is not a criminal offence (yet). These 'professors' just want to go back to a time when they could issue their ex cathedra pronouncements with no pushback whatsoever from the masses and no...

Pretty much.

I know this is an old thread but I just wanted to say I also received this phishing email and although I did not click on the link or give the scammers any information, my contact details were clearly leaked from that website hack and I had to change my phone number (as I started receiving weird...

No idea really.

Good news IMO. Implies that nothing is structurally wrong with the mitochondria per se. Likely to be a signalling problem telling them to slow down energy production.

Mirtazapine is one of the most fatiguing antidepressants. Possibly the most fatiguing there is. It's a great drug to use if you're trying to make CBT look good.

Medically unexplained doesn't mean medically unexplainable. Just because medical science doesn't yet understand something, it doesn't mean it's imaginary. There is a certain arrogance amongst these "professors" of medicine (many of whom are clinicians with a few crappy published papers and only...

I couldn't get past the first sentence to be honest.

These sorts of "yuppie flu" headlines will continue forever unless patient organisations start pushing back with complaints to authorities or even lawsuits.

Me too. Cortisol and adrenaline probably.

Lots of psychotherapy trials use this design because it makes it exceedingly easy to show a statistically significant result in favour of 'therapy'.

That's not a control group. This is a waiting list comparator arm, a useless trial design. A true control group would force these patients to get out of bed/house, show up to the hospital on the same schedule as the intervention group but have them play solitaire or read a newspaper instead...

Sorry to hear that. I didn't realise an old thread had been resurrected, just saw the dates now.

Hi @Justy, I too have experienced pseudobulbar affect, though not quite to the same degree of severity as what you've described. One of the old school books or articles I read on ME described it as being part of the clinical picture during the initial stages of the illness. I forget who said it...

I seem to recall filling out their questionnaire. Useful study. My ED encounters (for what were OI flares in hindsight) have been uniformly negative, encountering people who ranged from criminally stupid or lazy to smart and compassionate but having no knowledge whatsoever of dysautonomia. It's...

I've had concerns about this line of research (on the other forum) since the MRC funding was announced for this project. Academic psychiatrists have been asserting for 20+ years that interferon-alpha treatment for hep C is a biological model of depression. There are 1000s of publications on this...

A recent low carb study engaged in outcome switching to obtain the desired result. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/11/28/476655

I knew those endless hours of studying Latin declensions in junior high would finally pay off in a big way one day.

My onset was similar. From what I can tell, the current position of the medical industry is one of aggressive denial about the sometimes devastating and permanent alterations of the microbiome caused by (often needlessly) prescribed antibiotics, especially when given in infancy before a robust...

This would be in line with anecdotal observations discussed on other fora that massage makes many patients worse. I don't know that it's actual PEM he's measuring but it's interesting nonetheless that something this innocuous elicits symptoms and biological alterations.