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I certainly took a fair number of antibiotic "tablets" prior to grade school. They were sort of like Necco Wafers, if anyone remembers those. I took them for recurrent inner ear infections, which are fairly common in young children because the draining eustachian tube is easily blocked when...

Apparently, Jamieson Hurry's book was preceded by his like-named article published in the BMJ in 1914 (a year before publication of the book.). https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/1/2791/1404.full.pdf The article is probably a fair summary of the ideas in his much longer book and I thought it might...

But if you really believe in the power of positive thought, then admitting to negative thoughts, like symptoms, would be antithetical to your beliefs - thus making you an unreliable source of information about your own condition.

I'm sure he's still getting a wide variety of views.

It seems to be a real, although you might argue that certain latitudes are preferred by persons with a cultural affinity (and an associated genetic heritage) for living at those latitudes. Perhaps the reason one doesn't see any countries in the Southern Hemisphere among those with the highest...

FWIW, I was tested for EBV not long after the onset of my first symptoms of ME/CFS. The test was negative.

It's like losing $1,111 each year for 36 years (1985-2021), and spending 2.8 cents per year on nonsense to try to find a way to plug the hole... and failing.

Is it possible that it's something about the immunity one develops to EBV that causes MS?

I was wondering if the military kept track of ME/CFS cases so they then might be able to search their records to see if there were any common precursor infections that stood out. Then I stumbled across Leonard Jason's just published new estimate of ME/CFS cases in the U.S. It factors in...

I was trying to think of something even more general that would include "injury" (which is not generally referred to as an "illness") and toxic exposure (which might not cause an acute illness). Both injury and toxic exposure seem to have triggered ME/CFS in some people. The thing that seems...

4.3 million viewers is a tiny fraction of the US adult population of about 210 million. It's pretty close to 1 in 50 adults. When The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite was on in the 1970's, it pulled in about 30 million viewers back when the US adult population was considerably less. This...

I think my interview would probably go like this...

I wonder if they will employ GJT... i.e. "Graded Joke Therapy." You know... that's where you start with "Why did the Chicken Cross the Road" and then you slowly increase the complexity of the jokes until you wind up with the PACE trial.

How are they going to get the comedians into those little plastic bottles?

What's the difference between the red and blue ellipses? At one time or another since onset, I think I've had nearly every symptom on that chart except for "motor disturbances" and "genito-urinary symptoms."

I suspect that short-term flu-like symptoms are considered "normal." In the media, the message I've seen is that if you get a reaction it's a sign that it's working, but if you don't get a reaction that isn't a sign that it's not working. The odd thing is that I've been getting annual flu shots...

The reaction to the booster might just be idiosyncratic, but I wonder if it is influenced by what you had for your first and second shot (if you had a second shot). I had Pfizer for all three shots: Shot #1 - No reaction at all. Shot #2 - A noticeable flu-like response. Lasted about a day...

Fixed it. I must've forgotten to enter the link underlying the text. I used the "simple" version of Wikipedia because it's more detailed about blood loss in humans. For some reason, the article on exsanguination on regular Wikipedia is mainly about its use as a method of slaughtering animals. :(

I guess I would wonder "how long after an infection?"... like within a week? A month? I think some long covid cases have developed even later than that. Also, "after an infection" could mean mean "after the initiation of an infection" or "after an infection has resolved." Not trying to be...

Yes - - they also mention "early-onset orthostatic intolerance symptoms" which is another challenge to the deconditioning hypothesis, i.e. patients developing OI before they've had time to become deconditioned.