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Previous discussion regarding the dangers of long-term corticosteroid treatment: https://www.s4me.info/threads/critical-of-past-research-cortisol-studies.19175/

I'm wondering how you came about to be prescribed this high dose of I assume prednisone? Do you have an ME/CFS diagnosis or a recognised autoimmune disorder?

This questionnaire can't distinguish between depression, other medical disorders that cause fatigue and CFS IMO. All those symptoms listed are totally non-specific and would be answered yes by people with any number of chronic health conditions.

So, to sum up this study, we measured 4 metabolites in your body. They were normal. Therefore, you are mentally ill.

Paper published in a top psych journal in 2014 (not 1950), with 12 participants and far-reaching pro-Freud conclusions, point-blank admitting in the first sentence that hysteria is a synonym: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1780023 Reference 1 is Stone's FND...

It's one of the most insane threads we ever had here, the sheer insanity of that paper and its conclusions. This person literally spent their last days/weeks/months on earth being told they have FND.

Does it come out ok that way for you? I never seem to be able to get it right in the microwave.

Selection bias, low sample size.

Definitely. The goal of science is to lay waste to superstitious nonsense, not help amplify it and wrap it in pseudoscientific jargon. SW and the likes of him took the worst of human nature (magical beliefs about thoughts etc.) and spun a pseudoscientific discipline out of it in 1980s. It...

Yes, this is a common clinical situation. "Functional" is understood by everyone in medicine to be a codeword for psychological. However, in my post I was referring to elite FND scammers who talk a good talk about how all that Freudian conversion stuff is superseded and how enlightened they are...

According to Stone, one of the leading proponents of FND diagnostic creep, pretty much every symptom, including memory issues, dizziness, weakness, chronic pain etc., is FND.

It's not clear from the comment if the NIH paper found anything in relation to cholinesterase or if this is just speculation based on the finding of sympathetic overactivation and what could be causing that.

Stupid. Compare them to similarly disabled and socially isolated people with other conditions and then come back to me.

I don’t think we need another consensus definition because such a definition would just be another opinion based definition with no basis in tangible biological mechanisms. No useful new data or diagnostic tests have come out since the IOM definition so I think people should focus on rectifying...

The notion that FND is anything other than rebranded hysteria/conversion disorder is I’m sorry to say untrue. If you actually read their own papers they often admit it outright like in the meta-analysis we discussed a few months ago on this forum where the search terms they used were all these...

Trial investigators themselves.

Sounds like another nightmare about to hit us.

And emotion attached to various (non-evidence based and probably false) causal models for symptoms and gurus promoting them. You see this in our community too when you push back on some con artist MD or when you point out that the symptoms are not caused by bendy joints, leaky spine, enterovirus...

It would not be fair to say that ME/CFS patients are obsessively focusing on some random condition they don’t even have. As everyone knows, FND proponents in the academia have been trying to subsume ME/CFS, FM and other “functional somatic syndromes” into their thing forever.

He has been uniquely influential in the anglosphere, both in government circles and in the general medical and popular culture, in portraying us as subhuman. As a result of his actions, I’ve been stomped on like a piece of dung and crushed by so-called medical professionals, so-called friends...