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Title : Long Covid: MPs call for compensation for key workers Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56090826 I wondered how well this idea of compensating key workers would go down with the BPS crew. It would also get messy for the DWP and the government if compensation depended on...

Is it always low cortisol that is associated with ME/CFS? Or is high cortisol a known feature in some cases too?

I suffered from severe hyperventilation syndrome and "disordered breathing" about 15 years ago. I'd also gone through a phase of this about 40 years ago, but the first phase disappeared on its own. I was told that hyperventilating caused the symptoms I had because it reduces carbon dioxide...

So every doctor in France never misses an organic cause? They are brilliant diagnosticians, always? This is simply laughable, as well as being arrogant beyond belief. I have the same beliefs about doctors in the rest of the world, I'm not just picking on French doctors. The sheer arrogance of...

In my experience, once a health problem has been dumped in the MUS dustbin nobody ever looks into the problem again if they can help it. MUS has effectively become a diagnosis in its own right.

I think one of the major problems that women have is that doctors prescribe anti-depressants and sedatives to women and actual pain killers to men. If anti-depressants work that's great, but they never worked for me. I'm surprised that you describe the pain from endometriosis as neuropathic...

I have to take lansoprazole (a PPI) with my NSAIDs because of the stomach problem. But I find my NSAIDs do help my pain a lot and I take them every day, and they don't have any affects on my brain function. Amitriptyline and nortriptyline both give me tachycardia. I was prescribed four different...

@dave30th I noticed that there has been a redesign of the virology blog and in the process the Next blog and Previous blog links from the bottom of each page have been removed. Can we have them back, please?

NSAIDs are actual pain killers. Doctors will very rarely prescribe actual pain killers. The medical attitude to pain has turned them all into torturers. For proof, I offer this : https://www.pslhub.org/forums/topic/68-painful-hysteroscopy/...

I may have misunderstood what I was reading. I'm assuming that the subjects are going to be doing exercises on 2 consecutive days, rather than 2 "subsequent" days. If they are measuring total blood volume before each exercise test then it suggests to me that they think that some people may...

I was aware that being hypovolemic was a known symptom for some sufferers of ME, but something I wasn't aware of is that hypovolemia could be caused by exercise, so I've learned something new today.

It's been over 30 years since I last wore earrings. I doubt that my earring holes would still be viable, and it makes me squeamish just thinking about trying to force an earring through a hole which might not go all the way through. :dead:

I have never been someone who could regularly fall asleep in front of a screen, although it is sometimes starting to happen now as I get closer and closer to being a decrepit old fart. I was sent to bed before I was sleepy and wasn't allowed to read when I was a child. My parents thought that...

The article I linked is rather limited and could be a lot better. It links the problem it describes to technology and scrolling on smart phones when we should be sleeping. But I would say bedtime procrastination pre-dates social media and modern technology by many centuries. If your life is...

Title - ‘Revenge Bedtime Procrastination’ Is Real, According to Psychologists Subtitle - You know that thing where you stubbornly stay up late for no reason because you feel like you didn't get any time to yourself? Here's how to stop. Link ...

If she suffers from indigestion and/or heartburn and/or acid reflux then perhaps she has low stomach acid ( hypochlorhydria ). It's very common, and lowering stomach acid further with PPIs like omeprazole, or drugs like ranitidine just makes the problem worse.

This post is all about Hanne Kjöller's article, NOT mango, just to make it clear! I can't see any reason why sentence 1 leads to the conclusion in sentence 2. Any author suggesting this sees humans as a group as amorphous lumps whether they come from Croydon, Oslo, Adelaide, or Outer Mongolia...

I was taught how to do this by a respiratory nurse at my GP surgery when I was hyperventilating like mad. I couldn't even hold my breath for more than a second because I was over-breathing so badly. I can now hold my breath for over 30 seconds. I'm certain that the breathing lessons were far...

I wish I could be taller. Perhaps that is my problem. I "wish" to be taller but don't believe that it will ever happen, and that is why I can't increase my height. I don't "believe" therefore I have only myself to blame for being short. Edit : I was making fun of the BPS magical thinking, just...

This post is written with tongue firmly in cheek, and is intended to be sarcastic, not taken seriously... Many years ago I read that a treatment for syphilis that worked for at least some patients was giving the patient malaria to encourage long-lasting very high fevers. Once the patient had...