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Should that be "potential causal factors"?

The question that arises from the Pauline Ovenden account is whether there were contemporaneous recorded references to flu at the time of the outbreak. Notes from 40 years later are useful but not definitive. It was definitely stated somewhere in one of the papers that the initial impression...

It will probably be suggested that there was a reluctance to cause potential anxiety by reporting a potential polio outbreak. Something of that sort was previously suggested. Non too persuasively.

It would be interesting to know Turner-Stokes means by that "some patients". Does it mean some of the overall patients she sees, and those are the patients she diagnoses as having MUS? Or does she mean some of the MUS patients? In which case how does she interpret the remainder of the MUS...

I have been trying to persuade people of that for some time but have not been believed. It's good to see some further evidence.

But the officers would be diagnosed with neurasthenia. And we have been told by eminent authority that effort syndrome was merely a form of neurasthenia. And the work of those studying effort syndrome was promoted as having been about PVFS or CFS.

I hope someone remembers that the important thing is to withhold a diagnosis so that the patient does not become too attached to it. If necessary NYD-N should do the trick.

@rvallee Aren't you forgetting something? This all counts for nothing In addition, we believe that understanding of the postviral fatigue syndrome has been hindered by doctors who suffer from the condition also researching it. Though medical training affords insight into the subjective effects...

just not as Popper knew it.

My memory may be playing tricks but was there not , a few years ago, a study into the effects of counselling on post disaster victims which found that those who received the counselling fared worse than those who did not. The counselling somehow fixed (not in the "mended" sense) the trauma...

A couple of things strike me about the interview. It seems much easier now to describe the condition now that the descriptive vocabulary is available, even if far from perfect. Forty years ago it was a nightmare trying to find words when no-one, or no-one you knew, knew of the possible existence...

What is the evidence to suggest that post-covid fatigue, as opposed to the symptoms specific to covid, differs from post virus fatigue after other viruses?

I can think of no evidence to suggest, or reason to suppose, that being broken by a virus would have the same outcome as being broken by the legal system. The US has possibly the best justice money can buy. There were quite recently reports of a court judgment against Mikovitz. There seemed...

I'm not sure. Some have gained fame and fortune from alleged laboratory contamination. Circumstances may be kind or unkind.

I sometimes wish that people would have greater understanding and tolerance for Mikovits. For a number of years she has clearly had "difficulties", and displayed questionable judgment. Given what she was put through this is unsurprising. She was caught up in a series of events for which others...

I have recently been reading a lot of the early advice. Pacing was never intended as an excuse for idling the rest of your life away. It recommended gradual increases in activity, just as GET does. The fundamental distinction was the reaction upon exacerbation of symptoms. Pacing said stop and...

@rvallee do you know where that 1988 MEAction campaign quote came from. @Lucibee and I have been looking for the original quote. It looks to have been quoted unreasonably by you know who.

What has become apparent is that the "new" GET treatment is merely the old treatment for Neurasthenia via Effort Syndrome. You can cure yourself of effort syndrome if you really want to. Or so it was said. What is surprising is that this was not made explicit.

One does wonder whether Fauci might "revisit" his part in all this from 1988 onwards.

One needs to ask , though, whether they have gained control over symptoms or symptoms have gained control over them. EDIT you don't gain control over symptoms by surrendering to them, but the alternatives may be far worse.