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This thread makes me wonder about a few things. What is the relationship between Long Covid and EBV? I'm specifically thinking of the statistics, not the biochemistry. Can people have EBV without knowing? What percentage of people have had confirmed EBV? Is EBV always confirmed by testing...

On the subject of nutrition rather than nutrients this article may be of interest. Title : We learn nothing about nutrition, claim medical students https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43504125

I'm sure there are a load of medical conditions for which vitamin D and zinc are not helpful, but I'm equally sure there are plenty of conditions for which they are useful. But I wouldn't trust doctors on the subject of nutrients anyway. They don't get any training on the subject and appear to...

There have been lots of reports during the pandemic of how people with good levels of vitamin D and zinc have had less severe Covid and have had had better survival rates. But I'm not aware of this really getting a mention in the mainstream media. Or at least it isn't emphasised in any way.

The problem with the bolded bit in the above sentence is that doctors look at medical records and they assume the records are completely right and so they know the patient's medical history and they think that their investigations will determine the extent of tissue damage. But medical records...

I've lived in my current area for about 35 years. If I haven't found something good in all that time I'm not expecting to find it now. My local hospital, for example, has gaslighted me for decades. I had a truly astonishing appointment there (in a bad way) in 2019 which was the last straw that...

I won't bother then. I was seen by a pain clinic a few years ago and it was a complete waste of time. They were only prepared to suggest treatments that GPs had already tried which had already failed to make a dent.

I want to ask a practical question. Do doctors in the UK (specifically England) treat new cases of chronic pain? Or old cases of chronic pain that are getting substantially worse for no obvious reason? Or do they just give out a mental health diagnosis and refer patients to IAPT, CBT and GET and...

Agreed. The NHS has very deep pockets, along with even longer arms. There is no way they would run out of money to defend themselves in a court of law because they just use taxpayers' money. And all they really have to do is have more money than an individual patient, and that would be pretty...

Sounds to me like the various forms mentioned on this thread are just intended to give the therapists and doctors justification to continue gaslighting the patients. They certainly won't try to actually treat anyone.

Interesting article on how doctors made the decisions they did on how to treat Covid. Link : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56508369 I liked the last paragraph in particular : I have never understood why trials took so long. Based on this article it seems there was no particular reason...

:emoji_joy: Thanks for the explanation. :D But my brain is still interpreting what I see as something incorporating a chicken's foot. :emoji_blush:

Very, very interesting article on asthma, thank you. Of particular interest to me, because my husband is asthmatic and struggled for years to get proper treatment. Nobody denied he had asthma (that I'm aware of), they just wouldn't treat him with the standard treatment. He eventually got...

I'm not clear what the above phrase means. "Functional" means that something is, effectively, made up. So how can imaging show up something imaginary?

I'm being stupid here. Were the woman's loss of emotions due to the MS or the anti-depressants? I know almost nothing about MS.

I have to admit, being a Brit of a certain age I cannot intellectually "feel" what body temperatures are in celsius, and what they might mean. I have to convert to fahrenheit for it to be meaningful. The highest temperature I've ever knowingly had in my life was 105.5 F, which is 40.8 C. If...

A similar idea was mentioned (I won't say "discussed" - the article was "reporting" not "journalism") in a BBC article yesterday. Middle-aged women 'worst affected by long Covid', studies find (The article and related paper is discussed here Physical, cognitive and mental health impacts of...

Title : COVID-19 and Obesity: The 2021 Atlas Subtitle : The cost of not addressing the global obesity crisis Dated : March 2021 Link : https://www.worldobesityday.org/assets/downloads/COVID-19-and-Obesity-The-2021-Atlas.pdf This document is very long - 227 pages " Foreward Welcome to our...

I found two possible listings for Turkingtons as directors in the Companies House website - it may be a true family business with siblings, cousins and children involved : https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07192064/officers...

Just as a suggestion... I've read that many people with ME have proven low cortisol. I don't know the biochemical connection between cortisol and adrenaline, other than they are both produced by the adrenal glands and are both stress hormones. But perhaps if you have a low level of either of...