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Split thread From the latest Emerge Australia newsletter: I would satisfy the Canadian clinical criteria, but I doubt I would be seen as satisfying it based on my GP notes. My earlier GP retired. I have been with this practice over 15 years but I was diagnosed before that so wouldn't mention...

Probably not important, but I rarely come across CFS being mentioned so prominently https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/812581/PHE_HPV_healthcare_professional_factsheet.pdf...

I see this extract, which I presume refers to the current study

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1415500&dswid=9881

Free full text: http://ejobios.org/article/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-prevalence-in-human-to-human-sphere-workers-factors-contributing-to-7532

I don't see how that shows that the attractiveness of a woman to a man is equally affected by not been able to work at all, or only part-time, as the attractiveness of a man who can't work or can only work part-time is to a woman? As I said earlier, I don't think it's perfectly controversial to...

I'm very sorry to hear you experienced that. :(

Yes, indeed, some of the 22% and 54% who didn't say it was "very important" could rule out many people with ME and probably do. All I can say is that the overall effect doesn't seem to be equal, from what I've seen over the years, in terms of the end result of marriage, having children, etc. I...

There was some scepticism in this thread about the idea that not having a full-time job could have a bigger negative effect on a man's attractiveness to the opposite sex than that of a woman. I happened to come across the following in case it is of interest anyone...

Anyone listen?

I've no idea whether HPV vaccine increases the risk for POTS. From what research I have seen it doesn't seem to increase the risk of ME/CFS. Saying that, this paper looks like it could be annoying. https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jog.14227

Personally I can see how a heterosexual man with ME could feel less masculine and that this could cause them stress in particular ways and in some cases might lead to behaviours that are not good for their health. For example, generally men do more of the heavy manual work in a household. Do...

There is general stigma and there is attractiveness to the opposite sex; there are not necessarily the same thing. For example, for most of the time the size of a woman's breasts has little impact on her life. But a woman with bigger breasts could be more attractive to some men than a similar...

There are probably different issues. There is quality of life due to the illness, but then there are also specific issues like attractiveness to the opposite sex (if one is heterosexual). I would think that talking about masculinity (the title of this thread) (and femininity) relates a lot to...

I don't think I really should need to say this, but for the avoidance of any doubt, I never said that all women can/do go on and get married and have children. Nor did I say that women don't suffer. I made the empirical observation that I have seen a very low percentage of men who can't work...

I’m not sure this study cost any charity money and probably came from a pot of money that wouldn’t have gone to biomedical research anyway. Whether taxpayers’ money should go to a lot of gender studies research is certainly a reasonable question. A lot of it has been described as grievance...

I’d guess this says “this is not just”?

This study found acetyl l-carnitine, which can also be bought a lot of supplement shops, was better for cognitive functioning:

I don’t understand the biochemistry but one pretty much won’t be able to get 3000mg per day of L-Carnitine from food: https://amino-acid.org/l-carnitine/