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Yeah, I agree that it is actually a very misleading test for good fit. Unless your mask has a non-porous section around the bridge of the nose then air is going to come out of that region when you breath out and fog up your glasses. Basically any mask that meets or exceeds the N95/P2 standard...

Yes. Their arguments and claims just get more convoluted and ridiculous with every new marketing pamphlet paper. The FND craze is the real mass hysteria.

Good to see more in the profession standing up to Wessely and his ex cathedra pronouncements.

I too preferred SEID, but given it did not get broad support within the patient community, and in the absence of more accurate criteria (especially good biomarkers), then ME is as good a compromise as we can probably get for now.

I used to fix dialysis machines, often in patients' own homes, so I got to see and know patients and the pros and cons of dialysis. If your kidneys are bad enough to require dialysis, then you are already in serious trouble. Dialysis might keep you from being dead, but you are usually still...

I'd call it arrogance more than anything.

Leaving aside whatever the initial intentions of this approach were, it is clear that it has now degenerated into arse covering by any means. Indeed. Though that is a good one. It is one of the main problems we face. Most people with no knowledge of what has happened really do struggle to both...

Interesting.

This. The psychosocial club have always demanded the highest level of methodology from biomedical studies, while demanding that their psychosocial studies be exempted from having to meet that standard, and still be given the same weight and influence as the results from much more rigorous...

you will be deliberately infected with the COVID-19 virus Utterly appalling. Are they going to take full responsibility for any adverse consequences, including financial costs of lifelong disability, if it goes wrong? Or are they just going to blame the patient for not wanting to get better?

:nailbiting:

PACE has essentially been debunked: the initial definition of ME/CFS used in the study was overly broad, endpoints were changed mid-stream and after data had been collected, objective measures of patient improvement (or lack thereof) were removed from the study. One of the objective measures –...

This alone is more than sufficient grounds to render any trial of it a complete non-starter. The methodology used must be fully transparent. End of discussion. The virulence and tenacity of the psychosomatic meme still shocks me. It is beyond bizarre.

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came...

I don't think Hilda Bastian is the problem at Cochrane.

Well it would be, if you could get them on prescription. But doctors here are very reluctant to hand them out, and usually only do so on an occasional short-term basis. They get the health bureaucracy on their back otherwise. Add in the whole problem with how ME/CFS is perceived, and you can...

My understanding is that problem can be largely avoided by taking them with food. Is that correct?

But only 8mg with 500mg of paracetemol. Even that is prescription only in Australia now.

To date, there is no single treatment that can cure every patient with ME/CFS, To date, there is no specific treatment for ME/CFS.

It is almost like they are rubbing it in our faces and daring to us to do anything about it. 'Look at what we can get away with. Again. Ha ha ha. Suckers.'