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That, particularly in the context of a poorly understood condition, is nucking futs. :grumpy:

Don't know if it has anything to do with COVID vaccination (with my second AZ being on the 10th August). But not long after I got a particularly nasty persistent flu, consisting of sore throat, vicious cough, gunked up lungs and sinuses, and some headaches, but not any temperature rise (been...

THIS! I am fairly sure that almost every (non-random) finding so far is from the body having to deal with and adapt to the underlying primary pathology, not the primary pathology itself. Which is fine for clues, including for possible (non-curative) treatments. But they are not explanatory.

The morphing of GET into pacing, and vice-versa, by the BPS club has been going on for some time.

Either these people are genuinely unaware of what they are doing, in which case they are grossly incompetent. Or they are just openly laughing in our faces, in which case they are psychopaths. Either way they should not be in these jobs.

One of the greatest lost opportunities in modern medicine. We could have been 30, even 50 years ahead by now, on this issue. But we are not. That situation did not come about by accident. :grumpy::grumpy::grumpy:

They were researching career advancement.

Just look at the number of studies, their sample sizes, time spans, hard physiological basis, and how quickly they got up and running. Compare and contrast with the situation for us over the last 60 years. I mean, I am very happy that LC is getting serious attention, because it should and is...

What everybody else has already said. Great work. :thumbup::):hug:

The Actiwatch is a compact, light weight,... Which I believe is the opposite of "cumbersome".

Only looked at the PDF file, but it is excellent. Thanks to those who produced it. :thumbup::) Just one suggestion, on the last page (31): CBT is supportive but not curative. I would prefer: CBT can be supportive but not curative.

The cruelty bit for me is that it is coming from the very profession supposed to relieve suffering. This has always enraged me. It is one thing for an individual or small group within a profession to misbehave. But for virtually the whole profession to stand by and do nothing about it and...

You clearly need some Equipoise Socks™.

@Adrian Far as I know, there is literally nothing in the PACE data (or in FINE, GETSET, etc) that even justifies further research into the psycho-behavioural approach, let alone its application in the clinic and medico-legal settings. If PACE, et al, show anything it is that this is not a...

Yes, but critical ones. He has a very good nose for relevant nexus of power.

Patients who get better tended not to be as vocal as those who had had bad experiences, she said. That would be the patients "who get better", who for some mysterious reason, also failed to show up in the results of your own "definitive" study?

Not "medical research bodies". Furthermore, that situation is due largely to the likes of Sharpe and Chalder for two reasons: First, by using such broad inclusive criteria in their studies leading to the mixing of several different patient groups. Second, by discouraging and even blocking...

That would be your criteria, Prof, which wasn't even the best then, let alone now. Did you inform Natalie Grover of that relevant conflict of interest? Well, you claimed it was the patient group (AfME) involved in that trial that asked for that, but then you told a different story to the trial...

There is no cruelty quite like medical cruelty.

Which is a completely unsafe bit of reasoning.