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I cringe whenever I see the word "complex" in association with diseases mainly associated with women. It implies that the "researchers" think it's all "mental".

Thanks, @Caroline Struthers :)

If I stand still and shut my eyes I will fall over. I'd be even worse (i.e. fall over more quickly) if for some reason I tried to walk with my eyes closed. The cause of my problem has been diagnosed - I've got Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (which is a misnomer - pressure isn't always normal)...

I wondered if this article might be of interest here. There are some references to exercise, so you have been warned, but it isn't all about exercise: https://www.painscience.com/articles/respiration-connection.php Title: The Respiration Connection Subtitle : How dysfunctional breathing might...

Off-topic, sorry. I realised ages ago that there is some significance to the order in which authors are listed on any research paper or article, but I have never seen an explanation of what that significance is. Can anyone enlighten me?

I really don't understand this. hsCRP is alleged to predict a patient's risk of developing heart disease. See this link : https://labtestsonline.org.uk/tests/hs-crp Where does the apparent connection with childhood sexual abuse come from? And why are so many BPS proponents obsessed with...

I just wanted to make a minor complaint, sorry! The link I've quoted to your articles has never been up-to-date when I've gone to it. Currently, it is five articles behind.

If the pain had been investigated before and no cause had been found for it I think, in the UK, the NICE guidelines for "primary" chronic pain would get used, and they were written by sadists from the UK. So in answer to your question Where on earth would that be allowed in any medical system...

There always seems to be an assumption in papers spouting this belief, that tissue damage will always be found if it is there to be found. But this belief of the authors simply isn't true. Many, many people will have tissue damage that nobody looked for, or it was looked for by someone...

The bit that perturbed me the most about the video was the apparent risk of getting air bubbles into the veins or arteries, and that would be true for any injection.

Federal Road Safety Commission?

There was no way that was a real vaccine shot, and I doubt that anything went into his arm, not even saline or vitamins. People are supposed to remove any air in the needle, as well as checking that the needle was not in a blood vessel. And injecting something is never done that fast, it would...

Amitriptyline (Ami) and nortriptyline (Nor) both give me tachycardia at very low doses. Ami raised my heart rate to 150 beats per minute, and Nor raised it to 135 beats per minute. It's annoying for me because doctors expect both Ami and Nor to be well tolerated. So when I say they give me...

Astonishingly condescending and arrogant.

I wonder... Was the intention in publishing this article today to try and create a furore amongst patients to see if they will take the bait and make threatening remarks on some public forum? It does seem to be deliberately provocative. But if that was the intention it needed to be published...

"ME" becomes "chronic fatigue syndrome" becomes "chronic fatigue". How to minimise and dismiss a medical condition in two short paragraphs.

Could you have developed hypothyroidism? Feeling the cold is a really common symptom in the condition. If you already know you are hypothyroid and are treated for it perhaps you need a dose increase.

I had assumed there was no difference, and they meant the same thing.

One thing I realised a few years ago that is part of the whole "We won't believe you or test you or examine you" process is that doctors have told me many times over the years that they would do "full bloods", which (in my youth) always made me think that they would be thorough. (And I'm sure...

The problem with concepts such as "Medically Not Yet Explained" symptoms is that having been diagnosed with MUS or MNYES the patient will soon realise that no doctor will ever examine them again or suggest testing for anything (because testing tells patients they are really ill and they mustn't...