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Not my experience. Rapid fatiguablity, pain, increased symptoms during and after exertion. Exertion intolerance. My muscles do not function normally. PEM is a delayed worsening of all symptoms additional to this.

Despite the problems with her book, I wish Miranda well, and hope she's not over exerting herself.

That bit puzzled me too. More about PROBE: . 1992 Aug;1(2):113-9. doi: 10.3109/08037059209077502. Prospective randomized open blinded end-point (PROBE) study. A novel design for intervention trials. Prospective Randomized Open Blinded End-Point L Hansson 1, T Hedner, B Dahlöf Since it would...

We had home visits from our local ME service about 13 years ago. It was the same OT who ran the outpatient clinic groups recommending the same diary keeping and add a new activity each week. Completely useless.

From reading about others' experiences, I think a few people can increase strength in some muscles by very slow and careful focused exercises using specific muscle groups, provided the exertion involved doesn't exceed their 'energy envelope'. So they might be able to improve their hand grip...

I've copied rather a lot, and not necessarily the 'best bits'. I intend to go back over it later to weed out a lot of words and home in on bits particularly relevant to clinical trials of psych and behavioural interventions for ME/CFS. This was linked on the forum via a Cochrane article...

Ha, yes, you can see from the bits I've highlighted so far that I'm looking for the smoking gun.

Continued from above page 37 2.3 Good clinical trials are collaborative and transparent 2.3.1 Working in partnership with people and communities 2.3.2 Collaboration among organizations 2.3.3 Transparency 2.4 Good clinical trials are designed to be feasible for their context 2.4.1 Setting and...

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Moved from News from Cochrane https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/378782/9789240097711-eng.pdf?sequence=1 page 8 The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Development of Best Practices for Clinical Trials was constituted through a public call for nominations. 16 names including Karla...

I think the prominence given to OI in the article is justified because it seems to be a major factor in problems very severe pwME face with enteral feeding, and not coping with lying at the angle recommended by guidelines. For me, OI is a significant problem and is more disabling than...

I am put off by the title. Why do scientists try to be creative writers? The degree of confidence of assertions in the abstract also put me off. Doesn't come across as serious science.

Dr Bateman is keen on using hours upright with feet on floor (walking, standing, sitting on upright chair) as part of measuring severity and changes over time. I'll see if I can find a link.

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. Miranda has been in several very popular TV series. The British media treats her as a major celebrity as a result, and if I remember correctly she has been a Strictly 'superfan' for years. Even without her book to sell her publicist would ensure she had...

Thank you @hibiscuswahine for stating that so clearly. It's valuable to have your observations with your medical background.

That was quick! A very useful summary, thank you. It's interesting to see just how badly this trial failed in all its objectives - recruitment, retention, outcomes, cost effectiveness. I was going to say what a humungus waste of a million pounds, but perhaps it was worth that money to finally...

Maybe seek advice from a dietician.

That's a good question, @Yann04. Even as a borderline moderate/severe person, I can't do what most people would call 'exercise'. I also voted no. Perhaps a more refined poll would tell us more, including different severity levels. Or perhaps it's really talking about exertion, so for me the...

OMF has branches and/or funds several researchers in different countries, not just the Stanford group led by Ron Davis.