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  1. shak8

    What Does Neuroscience Tell Us About the Conversion Model of Functional Neurological Disorders?, 2019, Cretton et al

    Hang on, when a psychiatric disorder is clearly predominant, don't lump it into this FND category. Just because every generation has to rearrange its categories due to new science or just the need to move the furniture around and write papers about it, no reason to throw out good science and...
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    Examining Hope as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism of Change Across Anxiety Disorders and CBT Treatment Protocols (2019), Gallagher et al.

    'Hope' as a concept seems too abstract. Also, it seems rooted in superstition, such as hoping someone gets better from a fatal illness or some such. It's akin to praying. Goes against pragmatism, which, is more valuable because it's more realistic. 'Hope' as a concept seems idealistic...
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    Qigong exercise for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2019, Chan et al

    Perhaps we know by now why these Hong Kong residents experience sleep dysfunction, anxiety, and depression. Political reasons?
  4. shak8

    Open Tracking Peripheral Immune Cell Infiltration of the Brain in Central Inflammatory Disorders Using [Zr-89]Oxinate-4-labeled Leukocytes

    It's not Jerrud Younger. It's Jonathan McConathy, MD, PhD Contact: April Riddle, BSRT Their contact details are on the Clinical trials document. You could tell them what's wrong with Fukuda.
  5. shak8

    Effect of pain on relationships...my personal take on Pedro Almodovar's condition

    Pedro Almodovar's new film, Pain and Glory, is semi-autobiographical. I was interested in what he's said in interviews because he suffers from migraines and photofobia, back pain, tinnitus, among other maladies, and severely. There may be other illnesses as well. He said recently that he finds...
  6. shak8

    Lack of curiosity

    I am not an M.D., but am a former nurse and now patient. I think docs think according to an inner medical algorithm and according to their specialty. And some docs aren't as curious or as intelligent or emotionally empathetic as others. And they have to practice under strictures: the medical...
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    Service based comparison of group cbt to waiting list control for cfs with regard to symptom reduction and psychological dimensions - Heald et al 2019

    They used a four-point fatigue scale, with terms like "more fatigue than usual" "less fatigue than usual" something like that. Only four points for a fatigue scale is disqualifying as bona fide ME/CFS research. Oh, and individual ICBT (carrot bullshit therapy) versus Group CBT, oh boy. Now...
  8. shak8

    Article in Bella magazine - 'Please Believe ME' 26 Sep 2019

    Incredibly cruel and selfish of them. I want to scream.
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    BBC programme You and Yours: Are you dependent on prescribed painkillers?

    What I like about methadone for chronic pain is that it is long acting and one doesn't develop a tolerance as much as one does with morphine-type opioids. German engineering. It has other actions besides on the opioid receptors in the brain (some glutamate thingie). It's cheap and is used in...
  10. shak8

    Shooting Pain in Leg and Finger Tip on Left Side

    I've recently started to have startling new shooting pains in my shins and thighs and a couple of times in my arms. The legs I assume are my fibro hot spots -central sensitization. I tend to do more than one or two leg muscle exercise reps. I just don't think and then I pay for it. Over and...
  11. shak8

    US - ME/CFS Benefit Concert with Marian Call Saturday, October 5th, 2019 at the Mystic Theatre

    I'd go if it were a matinee (driving problem); I could take the train.
  12. shak8

    Flower Arranging Helps Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain

    No, I think that Israel is a big exporter of flowers. Perhaps some relative of the researchers was looking for a new market for leftover and wilting flowers from the Negev flower farms. (https://www.israel21c.org/business-is-blooming-for-israeli-flowers/
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    Flexibility exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia Cochrane Systematic Review 2 Sep 2019

    I can personally attest to a large increase in pain with certain mild stretching exercises. Because of central sensitization in fibro, certain muscle areas are always problematic and any eccentric muscle contraction will result in increased pain, sometimes severe. I've had episodes where...
  14. shak8

    Flower Arranging Helps Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain

    Hehe:heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:, but there were a lot of potheads as participants.
  15. shak8

    Flower Arranging Helps Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain

    According to this Medscape report https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/916994 Unfortunately for me, lifting my arms is never therapeutic. Strong floral odors can be unpleasant also. Surely the more severe cases (who couldn't reliably turn up at the venue) dropped out.
  16. shak8

    What does fold change mean?

    Start at zero, or baseline of whatever you are testing about. "Fold" means x or multiplied by x. So starting at zero, increase by 0.6x.
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