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There is a market for desperate people. People will pay lots of money for the suggestion they will get better. The product is not necessarily supplement or medication. The product may be the doctor himself/ herself. It could be a serie of treatments (Neurofeedback, brain retraining, Vagus nerve...

Usually it is suggestive of sexual function. It’s what sells.

Uhhhmmm. There seems to be 4 different threads for RobuVit. Is this an infomercial?

I think it means that this paper needed to get published, and that more work from them, with that topic is coming.

Here is my nursing perspective. For a patient recovering from ICU post mechanical ventilation, it is essential to recover the lung fitness via breathing exercise to begin with. Next, there is a need to prevent blood clots. Usually hospital staff will recommend to move feet and ankles while in...

Beyond the abstract, here is the first 2 paragraphs: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are subjective symptoms that last for more than 3 months and cause a loss of function with little or absent pathology. Patients with MUS spend $256 billion a year on direct health care in the United...

What Works in Mindfulness Interventions for Medically Unexplained Symptoms? A Systematic Review Billones, Saligan Note: Dr Saligan is involved in the NIH study with Dr Nath Link to paper here Abstract Background/Purpose: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been used in medically...

How about sliminess?

Thank you for sharing @Kalliope. May i ask that you fix the typo in the title to read ‘beta’ and not ‘beat’? :whistle:

Fascinating. Now they will operate in the shadows...

I get very weary of this global trend to organize ‘multi-disciplinary’ teams for self-management, coping and ‘wellness’. It simply means that you will not get access to any kind of medical care, but you will be offered a smorgasbord of group sessions to learn how to cope, how to be positive...

@ballard thank you so much for continuing this excellent work of yours, i had been used in social media with great interest. In regards to the latest one as posted on the first post, it would be great to add a historical explanation of ‘what took you so long’- For those not familiar with the ME...

Get psychiatry out of COVID :devilish::devilish::devilish: They have nothing to contribute.

I agree with you @Ravn, and i would like to add that many patients go through long periods of time without any infection (such as getting a cold), but PEM is often manifested by tender or swollen lymph node, sore throat and the feeling that an infection is coming.

That is a bit of a scary thought but general practitioners do not know the difference between criteria, or the nuances, and most of them would not know what post exertional malaise means. And in Canada, most physicians do not even know the Canadian Consensus Criteria. Most patients have had to...

It’s just a possibility amongst others, but somehow i remembered my nursing lessons. It is worthwhile to get it checked out and rule it out. I am sure the neurologist would have reviewed your meds anyways. Sending my best wishes.

Hi @Squeezy lithium toxicity includes tremor, and it may be useful to get your Lithium blood levels checked just in case, even if you have had the same dose for a long while. Sometimes, your drug clearance changes due to liver or kidney function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_toxicity

Congratulations to everyone who worked on this grant application and that made it successful. This is great news for all of us around the world.

I really dislike the term ‘long haulers’- it edges on the derogatory side, almost blaming the patient for not recovering as quickly as they should.

Agreed. It is pathetic to give a psychological profiling to all diseases that are poorly understood. It stigmatizes and decrease the likelihood of receiving competent care while increasing the likelihood of getting a psychiatric consultation or psychological treatments when it is not...