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I used to call my food slurries. It looked unappetising but better than ending up in hospital battling with them about tube feeding.

Same. I can't believe how long it took me to discover these time- and effort-saving hacks.

Stick blender was a literal lifesaver for me when I couldn’t swallow anything. I literally used that thing to purée all my food. Without it I’d be dead now.

Totally inappropriate conclusion.

I had a scary knife accident fairly recently which made me realise I was going to have to change the way I do things even if it compromises on freshness/taste (survival first). Since then, I started buying peeled/chopped frozen vegetables. Mostly frozen but there's also fresh stuff like squash...

No control group, useless. Double-blind trials of antidepressants typically show huge placebo effects.

Do these pop-ups vary by region? When I search chronic fatigue syndrome, I get: and it directs you to the CDC website. Under Medication tab, there's nothing about antidepressants, just quotes NHS:

Good to see long-term follow-up and this dramatic clinical improvement from a bedridden state and unable to lift his arms above his head to:

This study from 2016 in SS, did it actually pan out in the end? 8 years is a long time. This paper has few citations, mostly some crappy reviews, so I presume no one in rheumatology is taking this very seriously. The problem with citing primary literature in medicine is that most findings turn...

Bizarre conclusions. The symptoms reported by patients in questionnaires may be caused by a totally different mechanism that has nothing to do with autonomic dysfunction.

Papers show that GPCR receptor autoantibodies occur in similar concentrations in ME/CFS patients and healthy controls, with a very large overlap in distributions. Therefore, they are not causing the disease. This was explained on another thread very recently.

That paper analysed baseline data as far as I can tell.

Trial protocol here: https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ProvidedDocs/36/NCT01650636/Prot_SAP_000.pdf

If this is a secondary analysis, is there a paper describing the analysis of primary endpoint? The way they’re slicing and dicing the sample in an arbitrary way and looking at interactions makes me think the primary endpoint was negative.

My hopes for this are very low, especially given the six month delay.

I've also had various experiences of abrupt major improvement which make me rule out various hypotheses involving muscle pathology etc. On the rare occasion when I get a cold, my energy levels improve noticeably in the first day or two, then crash back to Usual Shitty Baseline combined with...

Those POTS exercise trials are of the same methodological quality as PACE and they also have huge dropout rates.

Every quack says the same thing about his quack therapies.

New CAR-T case report from China, this time in a patient with Sjögren's and lymphoma. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1298815/full

That’s quite a leap. Anyway, the metabolic changes observed here are very similar to those reported in obesity studies. What they inadvertently looked at here is the effect of a hypercaloric diet.