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I may be missing something obvious, but who will know? All of this - besides this forum and Cochrane and the IAG , how many will know? Enough for it to matter? If I'm Cochrane, this may be a closed loop as far as they are concerned.

@Mij, I'm not particularly fond of the potential it introduces to undermining the need or want for patient reporting. It's interpretive BEYOND the mangling of what can be done via questionnaires. Sorry, I'm mangling my words. It imo introduces an unnecessary third party risk, if that makes...

Among other things. It was first suggested by a vet.

Behaviour is one step removed from symptoms. Why qualify "sickness" at all? Worse, why qualify it with anything to do with behaviour; it's BPS chum.

A tandem infection where Rickettsia is one of the pair has concerned me for quite some time. Who tests for it, with what tests, and for which strains? The US is notorious for TBD's, but not many GP's look this way.

There's a Woody Allen movie in there somewhere.

FND is an in-your-face-Science! moment; you'd think there'd be more Scientists stepping forward in outrage to call out the fact that it exists. After all, it's an affront to to what Science strives for. It is unScience. My brain is struggling to find the words. I'm sure it's an "im" or "in"...

Sickness behaviour is not a symptom. It's a framework to infer disease, initially proposed by a veterinarian, if I recall correctly. :)

Mayo is a big deal, historically a tough nut. Hopefully it will get the attention of other medical bellwethers like Johns Hopkins.

Yeah, I appreciate I am likely in the minority, but the title here, imo, should have the word "Gender" in place of "Sex". Mitigates ambiguity for title surfers. But I'm one of those who still believes the word "none" must always be singular, so likely just another generational ship sailing away.

Dumpster diving. Garbage. So, no surprises.

This made me think of one of those curious perception tricks, but with eyesight, where you have two identical crescent moon shapes stacked upon one another. One looks bigger than the other. Our perception is fooled. It's a cool trick, but it has absolutely zero utility in helping diagnose or...

Kids.

I wonder if brain atrophy resolves, i.e., if brain atrophy occurs, can it ever return to historical volume. I've read it can, but it's rare. I'm not sure I even believe that.

I was wondering what they meant by "implications for clinical approach." What clinical approach?

I was ignoring this, but Irony had to crap all over me with an embedded tick, not five minutes ago, which I shredded with tweezers inadvertently and amarteurishly as I struggled to remove it. Whatever happens I will NOT be traveling to Mexico for treatment. But I'm not Canadian, so those...

It was sarcasm. Evidently failed sarcasm. I've added qualifiers to my original post. No worries. I agree with you:

No surprises, I suppose. People with screwed up personalities invent or imagine all sorts of whacked out nonsense about their own bodies and whatnot. (insert sarcasm emoji here) Years ago, these were probably the kids no one would let sit with them at lunch time or study hall. (insert sarcasm...

It will be interesting to see if Fauci is associated with future efforts, seeing as he's off to Georgetown U, last I heard, with his eye on ME/CFS. ETA: Wasn't Walitt also associated with GU?

If I had my druthers I'd throw one or two other chronic conditions into the mix of that study just posted by @Dolphin , e.g. MS and leprosy. ETA, Sorry, it was posted by @Andy