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I have an SAD lamp. I bought it years ago & used it as recommended but no beneficial effect. Mind you I am very pale and never tan, just burn. Summer is my worst time of year. The lamp comes in handy when IM works from home. The room all his stuff is in is the darkest in the house with...

She probably did feel awful all the time. I wouldn't dispute that for a second. The thing is so did the rest of us. We all had to creep off and have naps every now and then when we felt we were going downhill. If you felt as bad as she claimed there's no way you could sit there chatting for...

Yep. Why is one person more positive than another? Maybe because they have more support and know that someone will cook their dinner for them if they can't, do laundry etc. So they need to worry less, can rest up and relax more. The resting up and relaxing more being as much if not more...

I've clicked "like" @Sly Saint by way of thanks for the heads up. The content gets a :thumbsdown:. Windgassen again. :rolleyes: At one point I was told I might have Interstitial Cystitis. I spoke to the doc because of frequently wanting a wee. Diabetes came to mind.... I had none of the...

It is. Some very understanding comments. I find it interesting in that I was friendly at one time with a person with mild ME (she would class herself differently). She was financially secure and pensioned off work. She could afford to run a car, was well enough to drive and went out nearly...

I think it's more fundamental. Research that yields null results can be as, maybe even more, interesting and important as any other. A combination of the political and financial interest of the publisher or editor seem to override what is in the best interests of the field of research. This...

This seems to me a gross oversimplification. Regardless of money, what about support, for example. If you have people around you who will voluntarily provide practical support aren't you more likely to have the energy to fight, to investigate things for yourself, to be a more active...

Also are the ones who recover a subset with different aetiology? Without that biomarker can we know for sure? I'm not saying that it isn't worthy of studying those in long term remission or possibly recovered. Just wary of language that generalises or hypes & might set false expectations...

Am I being spectacularly thick here? (Probably) Isn't this like when they give incentives to naughty children on the rare occasions they behave, while the kids who behave all the time get nothing? If a trial is pre-registered, or gets public funds shouldn't they just be made publish anyway...

Even a disposable mask, @Jonathan Edwards? Your clothes are designed to be washed and are for warmth and cover rather than protection against germs. Or are you saying that your clothes are just as likely to get the virus on them as the mask? Therefore just as likely to be a source of...

I can see that, but you're still increasing your risk of spreading the pathogen around in an attempt to clean a mask that wasn't designed to be cleaned. Worse still, you're potentially spreading the pathogen inside your own home. I know the reusable ones will be more expensive. Then there's...

Why would you want to sterilize or disinfect a single use mask? Apart from all the other snags noted by those better informed than me I reckon, even wearing gloves you are more likely to accidentally spread pathogens onto the inside of the mask or onto the band holding it onto your head...

Sounds more like she wants a nice safe place where she doesn't have to think at all. No difficult people asking awkward questions, regardless of how valid those questions might be. Just blindly following those in charge and not questioning. Then again faith is the lady's business I suppose.....

Just of curiosity, does anyone know if there's a starting age point for diagnosis of somatization in paediatrics? I do wish they would think about/could see the life limiting consequences of such B.S.. Blighting a person's life before they've even begun living it. :cry:

I would imagine he would be relying to a large extent on advice from other people about technical or medical aspects. If in turn those people have fallen for the "expert" opinion currently in favour he may not know or understand anything at all about it. This could go a couple of ways- - He...

Oh dear. the references on that website are very old 2002 is the newest - the report to the govt Chief Medical Officer. 1994 CDC diagnostic criteria. All that energy, yet as a research coordinator can't be arsed to keep up to date. Waffle, waffle, waffle.... Bit at the end I got cured...

Yuck! Coronavirus aside I don't think it would be unreasonable to request they wash their hands or use a hand sanitizer when they come into your home. Maybe have a bottle of the stuff on the hall table?

Absurd and abusive are the first two words that spring to mind. Edit - forgot to ask would it help if foreign nationals, living abroad wrote too?

Well.... CBT does naff all for us so it's effectively GUM for the BPSers. Clearly GUM works for them. It should definitely help us!

Do they ever just listen to themselves? So you can on!y do something to help someone if someone else has written instructions for you? I have zero medical training, yet if someone collapsed in front of me I would try to help. Even if it just to call an ambulance and try to keep em going till...