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@Webdog how much is the subscription? I wonder if we could crowdfund for you to keep this membership?

You meant childhood abuse in the title, not childhood harrassement, right?

No @shak8 catastrophising rhymes with hysterical

Not too late to join us, click on the tweet above, like and retweet, and you’re done! Thank you to all who did!

Exercise-induce hyperalgesia, complement system and elastase activation in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - a secondary analysis of experimental comparative studies Polli A1, Van Oosterwijck J2,3, Meeus M3,4, Lambrecht L5, Nijs J6, Ickmans K6. Author information 1 Pain in...

Thank you @Snowdrop

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hello, I wonder if anyone with a twitter account could please like and retweet the following tweet? The British Columbia ME/FM Society is requesting a meeting with the government. Thank you For those of you on Twitter, could you please retweet and/or comment on the ME/FM Society of BC's most...

Thank you @Webdog for your persisting efforts. You are doing great work!

Catastrophization is a construct, and they admitted it early on in the document i provided to you above. It allows them so called professionals to associate emotional distress to physicial symptoms of pain, and will help them determine whether a CBT program will help diminish catastrophization...

I believe it is more than stupidity and laziness. It is adding labels to patients who ‘claim to have pain and behaviors that are unhelpful to their recovery’. It is the psychologization of patients with fibromyalgia. And if you do not change your catastrophization behaviors, then it’s your own...

Often time when i read research literature, i notice how researchers use the catastrophization scale with the fibromyalgia community and in the chronic pain community. You can read about how the catastrophization scale was built here...

This. Thank you @Dolphin

That’s right, only if the liver enzymes are 5 times the upper limit of normal they will start to worry or consider further testing. Amd in my case, @Inara i am very glad not to have my gallbladder anymore as it was necrotic. I was very sick and in a lot of pain and was hospitalized for 10 days...

Significance Inflammatory processes drive the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS). However, what triggers this inflammation re- mains unknown. Several herpesviruses (HHVs), such as HHV-6 typically acquired during childhood, are associated with MS. The temporal separation between...

But those are not treatments! At best, they are symptom management. Otherwise, they are self-management. If a typical physician read all this they will think we are all better by resting and pacing, and it is not the case.

Ah, they are likely to review grants and we should hear from their decisions shortly after that.

I believe many of us PWME have a low cortisol finding and blunted diurnal cortisol curve.

I have not followed too precisely your tables and such and not too sure how to interpret, but one question I wonder is whether there is a relationship between epinephrine sensitivity and the presence of adenergic receptor antibodies (from the Sheibenbogen paper).

In case you missed it I added something at the bottom of my post above