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It's a blood test - they measure different IgG antibodies (https://www.yorktest.com/what-is-igg/) to a range of different types of food and drink ingredients. There were around 100 different items on my test. It seems this part is where the science is not clear / settled. But there have been a...

Has anyone ever done a food intolerance test offered by compaines such as York Test? I never really knew what to make of these tests. I'm a skeptic, but I actually went ahead with one about years ago, costing me a couple of hundred pound. I got a list of about 6 foods showing a strong...

I hope this isn't just left as it is now. This sort of discrepancy does occur quite a lot in science. And to the outsider it can seem frustrating because one naturally asssumes that one party is correct and the other is wrong. Sometimes, it's not that simple - especially when it comes down to...

exactly. you'd likely have to have a dependency of processing time on patient illness severity.

Do we know if any patients have submitted samples for the Myhill test and they've come back as 'healthy'?

There is a response from Myhill and edit [McLaren-Howard] on Myhill's site. I don't have the link this very minute.

The question is still 'Is' rather than 'When is', but if funded my guess would be from 2021 onwards, for perhaps three years.

that's what i'm getting at. i don't see how you would end up at this result!

Scientific Reports is a Springer Nature journal, but it is a tier or two down from the big Nature journals. It is usually where papers rejected from the leading Nature lines end up. Still, a respected journal.

this is the original paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680051/ Could problems with storage and sample time really account for the original results, which show clear demarcation between HC and PWME, and also strong correlation between degree of disfunction and illness severity?

Exactly. She's making a killing down at Myhill farm. The tests provided are extremely expensive, and the results looked so convinving in the paper she published. it seems this was all due to sampling time and storage?

If Chalder and co didn't have enough rubbish papers based around that damned questionnaire, they can now add another to the list about how to complete the god damn thing. How very meta.

The Brexit shambles has had me thinking the same thing recently.

yes, the lena dunham tattoo ("sick" written on her neck) is shown in this article.

this is essentially what I was getting at. there are so many who are marginalised from mainstream society and they can become very bitter, defensive, and genuinely unable to have a normal conversation. This really isn't helpful to anyone. Perhaps we just see the worst sides on social media.

https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/what-happens-when-lyme-disease-becomes-an-identity.html This is a very long read and I've only skimmed through, but this is a topic I hoped someone would write about. From the comments it seems the article could be somewhat dismissive to patients. This doesn't...

I'm back going through these horrible brain symptoms that come about for a few days every few weeks or so. I just hate it. Another thing I forgot to mention was 'brain surges' lasting a few seconds and coming about periodically when in bed trying to fall asleep. I think I've seen these elsewhere...

I knew when I saw this link that Mark Fisher would be mentioned somewhere in the article. For those who want to read more about this from a cultural and politico-economic standpoint, I recommend Mark's essay 'The Privatisation of Stress'...

Thank you for this nice summary. You have more patience than I!

Yes, I saw this and nearly fell off my chair. I assume it is a typo.