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I was given ciprofloxacin for a bladder infection in 2010. I developed an issue with the tendons above my heel - I was hobbling and complaining about it well before I googled for side effects of the drug. The tendon problem did eventually come right. I felt bad on the drug and for some time...

Walitt has had a key role in recent NIH research into ME/CFS. His published views about fibromyalgia, and the NIH inviting Edward Shorter, an ardent supporter of 'CFS is a psychosomatic illness' to brief them about the illness when a major ME/CFS study was beginning made many of use feel...

NIH launches new initiative to study "Long Covid" More here: Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, Long Covid

This, coming from Wallit, leaves me feeing very uneasy.

Video of Hungarian doctors discussing Long Covid in children - post and link here: Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, Long Covid

A useful report from Lahore, Pakistan, surveying people who have had mild Covid-19. Follow-up of COVID-19 Recovered Patients with Mild Disease from a team at the CMH Lahore Medical College At a 3 months followup by telephone, 38% of men and 51% of women reported fatiguability. @Michiel...

Yes, thank you very much for your work and commitment, and for taking the time to answer our questions so fully. Best wishes for the home straight of your PhD. Sounds as though you have some exciting studies under way.

Good points @Samuel. It is very hard to know what should be attributed to ME, and what might be another illness entirely, and what might just be getting older. It's not helped by the fact that even really small, quite inconsequential things can help with a diagnosis of some conditions - like...

A discussion about the causes of Gulf War Illness has been moved here: Gulf War Illness - causes

An off-topic strand of conversation has been split into a new thread here: The influence of the biopsychosocial (BPS) view of ME/CFS in government guidelines and medical practice in different countries (past and present)

Thanks Michiel. Those four graphs aren't very convincing, are they? There might be statistically significant differences, but there's so much overlap, that it's difficult to believe that levels of dUTPase antibodies are, on their own, the answer to the question of ME/CFS or GWI.

I've included a link to the video, along with some other resources, in a list for Allied Health Professionals in my region. The video shows what ME/CFS is like very well, and doesn't take long to watch.

@Adam pwme , just watching this again, it's so well done. Could you possibly update it when the new NICE guidelines come out?

One of the things that is interesting about this paper, is its view of chronic fatigue syndrome, and the suggestion that the condition didn't have a name for many years prior. There's a quote about the lack of attention fatigue has had, despite it being very debilitating. Which highlights...

An old paper, one that I found when I was looking for papers related to physiotherapy. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233658666_Fatigue_-_concepts_for_physiotherapy_management_and_measurement Free Abstract

Personally, I'm more than happy for DMissa to weigh in. I am very grateful to the Fisher team for their interest in ME/CFS; their papers are always well written and the studies are interesting. Yes, it feels as though the mitochondrial research is still quite new, with more understanding yet...

She may be playing tricks, but with 'more participants having perforated appendicitis than anticipated', I expect this feasibility trial will be put to one side and there will be another roll of the dice for the main trial. Cheaper for the health system/insurers than an operation no doubt, but...

There wasn't much in the cytokine analysis, in terms of differentiating post-Covid participants with (nCov) and without (Cov) neurological symptoms. I thought the IgG levels measured was interesting - these are in confirmed cases of Covid-19, with some of them having no or very low antibodies...

The premise is really interesting. It seems that they can isolate particular extracellular vesicles using antibodies against a cell adhesion molecule that is expressed on neurons. I'm not quite sure if that means that the vesicles with the neuronal cell adhesion molecule have come from neuron...

Yes, I do remember that, and was convinced by it. But I have heard other Australian mitochondrial researchers be very dismissive of the idea of using lymphoblasts to investigate ME/CFS - they feel that the cells will be too different from cells taken fresh from the body. When I mentioned the...