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  1. rvallee

    Conference - Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder Improving Practice and Outcomes - 22 Nov 2019

    It seems entirely framed around the impact it has on physicians and nothing on the patients themselves, barely an administrative concern. It's frankly very narcissistic. This obsession with trauma, especially childhood, is unhinged. Most people did not have a violent or abusive childhood but...
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    Low-dose naltrexone in the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), 2019, Polo et al.

    They know exactly what they're doing. They operate out of beliefs, not science.
  3. rvallee

    Podcast: CBT for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Dr Lucy Maddox, Trudie Chalder

    Well, the PACE team pulled off dropping all objective measurements for the treatment arm built on an assumption of deconditioning based on the written statement that in their opinion the participants were reasonably active and so there was no need to measure their activity. Both deconditioned...
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    "Salus Fatigue Foundation marks 10-year milestone with national roll out" (in UK)

    The "wellness journey" line seals it. Anyone confusing fatigue for ME can be safely ignored and told to go away and never come back.
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    Science minded people--help me engineer a simple structure to stay warm?

    A sub-zero sleeping bag will more than do the trick. Some are as good as -45C. Will likely not be found down south but from any online store in the northern states they should be easy to find, even from military surplus. For the tent itself definitely nothing better than reflective covers, the...
  6. rvallee

    Low-dose naltrexone in the treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), 2019, Polo et al.

    So, safety is confirmed. Moving on to efficacy in blinded trials? Effect seems to be minimal, though. As in it relieves some but doesn't do much to elevate function. Still better than, woah, TAU, which is now CBT-GET. The thing about setting a standard that the lowest possible subjective...
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    The Guardian - Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? Nov 2019

    The incompetence of every UK medical journal in promoting harmful BPS pseudoscience certainly suggests so. Aaron Swartz literally died for this. As many in the ME community do, just on the other side of things. The current model is even more broken considering how the ME saboteurs seem to all...
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