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Same here. When I had mild ME, I used to tolerate these cultural practices and would allow people I’m not close friends with to stay in the spare bedroom. Some of these visits were incredibly annoying, up to a week of forced activity. I’ve long stopped allowing anyone to come over which means no...

In mice!

This is truly despicable. I’m actually speechless.

It’s so strange that they published this. I hope he sues everyone involved in his “care” for malpractice.

Old (CBT) wine in new bottles.

TMS is a treatment for depression (and not a very good one).

Much hype, zero results so far.

My gait is abnormal. I’ve had other people spontaneously comment on it and even laugh at the way I walk. As I get progressively fatigued, my feet start dragging along the ground. I fall at least a couple of times a year.

Loss of consciousness. Dizziness, syncope and the sorts of symptoms we would call dysautonomia.

Fingertip sampling is more painful but it has other advantages. It can be repeated several times a day to track micro changes in a patient with chronic illness. It doesn’t require a trained phlebotomist, doesn’t require a trip to the doctor’s office (useful in places like the US where many ppl...

So the major finding is that there are no major findings.

From the Limitations section: Very biased and bad study published in an obscure open access Chinese journal. People with ASD are often rejected, ostracised and bullied by neurotypical people so it's not surprising that they spend a lot of time on the internet. It's also unsurprising that...

There were stories like this coming out of Norway about rituximab 10+ years ago. It all turned out to be a mirage.

Tried it a long time ago, back when it was all the rage. It’s hard to recall the specifics. Some mild initial improvement in ME symptoms but it was coupled with worsening of sleep disturbance and gastroparesis so I had discontinue it.

1.3 mill flushed down the drainpipe.

Bonus points for sexist dig at the childless female patient.

They are all like this. This article almost reads like a self-parody of the entire worthless and disgraceful profession of neurology. They have zero insight into their appalling behaviour and can't even retain a veneer of professionalism when confronted with a patient who they believe has no...

Disturbing article full of lies and self-aggrandisement. Basically, the whole thing boils down to how to trick/screw over the patient. Check out also this self-indulgent bit where they talk about how taking the "functional" patient's history should be tweaked to make it more interesting for...

From an article by this Stone person, coauthored with our old friend Sharpe. First sentence immediate stigmatisation and invoking of negative stereotypes about angry, irritable, depressed woman entering middle age: https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/suppl_1/i2 So there you have it, folks. CFS =...

These sorts of pseudoacademic disciplines should be completely defunded and the departments purged of people of this sort.