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I suppose sometimes dry eyes are just dry eyes, but they are connected to a variety of conditions, including autoimmune diseases. They're also connected to inflammatory bowel diseases like Chron's and chronic ulcerative colitis (which seem to show gut microbiome distributions similar to those...

To paraphrase Time Bandits: "Oh, Psychology... Dear Psychology, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of perfectionism."

C'mon! Who'll help me carve the holiday cricket roast! I'll flip you for the thorax! Anyone?

Since they evaluated patients who already had CFS, I don't think they can tell whether their findings represent a potential predisposition or are rather a consequence of the disease. To see if PD's were a predisposition, they'd need to do a prospective study of a group of otherwise healthy...

Seems like the US and UK already are among the nations with the longest life-expectancy. If you assume that maximum lifespan is not all that elastic, the rate of increase is eventually going to slow down for those already near the top. Personally, I'm packing my bags for Monaco.

Merged thread David Tuller: Trial By Error: Mayo Still Champions GET Perhaps you're thinking of Bing Crosby as kindly old Dr. Cook in the 1971 telefilm "Dr. Cook's Garden." Of course, it turns out that kindly old Dr. Cook is surreptitiously euthanizing all the "bad" people in town, "weeding...

You get a different image when you search for ME or CFS on Bing.

I'm not sure how common (or relevant) this is, but, in the first couple of months following onset, I lost my appetite and a lot of weight. Part of it may have just been a reaction to feeling ill, but I suspect it also had to do with the fact that I suddenly got odd reactions to eating most...

This is the problem. The Mayo Clinic is renowned for succeeding where others fail - for being the court of last resort that will find the correct diagnosis/treatment, no matter how obscure. That's all great, but it no doubt makes it doubly difficult for them to believe, let alone admit, that...

It could one, or the other... or both. But I'm not locked into that. ;)

Given it's The Mayo Clinic, I would just apply Occam's razor and put it down to good old-fashioned hubris, the same condition that the CDC suffered from for three+ decades with regard to ME.

I question those who say there is no proof that there are people who refuse to accept that there are skeptics who don't believe in denialism. :)

Well, a couple of years before I became ill, it was discovered that a major US fast food chain had been sent horse meat labeled as "beef" from an oversees supplier. :eek: I remember people making jokes about it, like telling their burgers before they took a bite, "Whoa, boy!" When I looked...

I wonder when/where the term "post-exertional malaise" originated. [below modified from original post] I got a hit from Google suggesting it was in the 1988 CFS "Working Case Definition" from the CDC, but it does not seem to be in that report. I assume that this aspect of the disease...

The muscles soreness that healthy people feel the day after exercise is called "DOMS." It stands for Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness. So, perhaps delayed PEM could be called something like "DOSA," for Delayed Onset Symptom Amplification.

Perhaps the most famous use of the word "malaise" (in the US at least) never occurred. In the summer of 1979, then President Jimmy Carter gave a national speech about meeting the challenges of the energy crisis. Carter felt that the nation needed to overcome a "crisis of confidence" in order...

I don't have an issue with the medical usage of "malaise," but its lay use can be associated with "ennui," a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction, a lack of initiative and a possible precursor to depression. I assume we can rely on physicians to know the difference, but psychologists...

I was just thinking about this a couple of days ago, wondering if PEM delay might be linked to the severity of other symptoms - like... is PEM delay shorter when symptoms are severe? The idea that repeatedly re-triggered PEM from constant exertion attempts could actually be a factor in the...

Seems like it might be a pattern made by the fingertips/nails if the hand were moved in an arc from below by swiveling it from the wrist. Place your hand on a flat surface and swivel it by the wrist to see what I mean. The nails would have to be pretty sharp (or ragged) to make such fine arcs...

I have trouble with right and left when giving directions, but I know which is which internally. I blame years of daily group recitations of the US Pledge of the Allegiance in primary school. The teacher would always begin with "Right hand over heart. Ready. Begin." I think this somehow formed a...