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    ABCC6 and pathogenic SNPs

    I didn't find any of the 6 you listed.
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Was that recorded, per chance? I'd like to hear that bit.
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    RED Lab, Belgium -- experiences?

    Has any one used RED Lab in Belgium for any of their testing? "R.E.D. Laboratories is a private Belgian company, focused on developing and performing specialty research and diagnostic tests for chronic immune disorders, intestinal dysfunctions, tick-borne diseases (Lyme disease) and...
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    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    “Researchers from these world-class institutions came together in a grassroots way to successfully isolate the virus in just a few short weeks,” said Dr. Rob Kozak, clinical microbiologist at Sunnybrook. “It demonstrates the amazing things that can happen when we collaborate.” I am both...
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    UK: Priority Setting Partnership for ME/CFS

    A bastardized version of the James Lind Alliance process was used by Mary-Ann Fitzcharles to the detriment of Canadians with FM. The Canadian Journal of Pain published Manfred Hath's critique: "The current issue of this journal includes a paper by Fitzcharles et al., who used the JLA...
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    Let’s talk about pain catastrophizing measures: an item content analysis (2020) by Crombez et al.

    I suspect one day science will have advanced to realize: All research into subjective experience is disqualified if researchers lack that lived experience. That's why I'd like to see physicians in training required to experience severe illness, like ME, for a week. That lived experience is...
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    Trial By Error: New Biopsychosocial Study of Fatigue in HIV Patients

    I told my HIV+ friend about the research -- he said, dripping with sarcasm, "Oh, so that's why my fatigue disappeared when I switched one of my HIV meds. It corrected my dysfunctional thinking."
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    An Isolated Complex V Inefficiency and Dysregulated Mitochondrial Function in Immortalized Lymphocytes from ME/CFS Patients Missailidis et al. 2019

    I've not noted any side effects -- pre-rapamune my max walking capacity on flat ground was 15 minutes -- about a month later I could do 30 - 40 minutes, so about doubled my exertion window -- I also noted that PEM was harder to induce, and the symptoms were less intense and shorter lived.
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    An Isolated Complex V Inefficiency and Dysregulated Mitochondrial Function in Immortalized Lymphocytes from ME/CFS Patients Missailidis et al. 2019

    I started in November 2018 and continue to take it. Initially at 1mg / day at breakfast (with fat to increase absorption) - but in the last year I done as little as every 3rd day for a few months - currently moving to a Mon - Wed - Fri schedule. David Sabatini is the go-to guy for mTor research...
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    The heart-breaking experiences of mothers with ME (NZ Herald, Feb 2020)

    It was. At the end, I found myself wishing the reporter had of actually interviewed the government people as opposed to reading their statement (that effectively undermined and dismissed what the patients reported). But the govt people may not have wanted to appear on camera.
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    Medical Uses of Sodium Thiosulfate

    I stumbled on sodium thiosulfate -- It is used historically for cyanide poisoning, but they are discovering other properties / uses -- the anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects piqued my interest: https://www.jneurology.com/articles/medical-uses-of-sodium-thiosulfate-neuromed-1-1032.php...
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    A potential antigenic mimicry between viral and human proteins linking (ME/CFS) with autoimmunity:The case of HPV immunization - Phelan Feb 2020

    https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/antigenic-mimicry "Antigenic mimicry is the sharing of antigenic sites between microorganisms and mammalian tissue. An immune response can be directed both at the microorganism and at the host site that shares the...
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    Updates on status of ICD-11 and changes to other classification and terminology systems

    Awesome, thanks so much for the heads up, this is great to know -- I'll take this to our team for action and keep you updated on how it goes.
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    ME Action: The EU committee on petition is preparing a resolution on ME

    Or 2 or 3 so decision-makers can feel like they made a decision.
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    Disability Tax Credit in Canada Difficult for Invisible Illnesses

    iirc about the PKU tax court decision, one of the key criteria is that more than 14 (?) hours per week must be required for illness treatment/support (or whatever language they use). Theoretically, since resting / pacing is key for ME patients not to become more disabled, it could be argued...
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    Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: Why Counseling Psychologists Should Care About Them, 2020, McAndrew et al

    Ditto. And they'll be oblivious to the patient's trauma caused by being repeatedly gaslighted. That's where they'd may actually be helpful instead of further embedding harm.
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