About 1980 I became friendly with a woman whose son was severely autistic. She was quite upfront that it was her fault because she had spent 3...
He says that a trial "requires a comparison with a dummy treatment, so that our expectations, positive or negative, do not influence the results."...
Interstitial cystitis is classed as a functional neurological disorder by Stone.
Cancer treatments are very harsh, never mind the damage from the disease itself. Basically, they are reframing all the physical symptoms as...
There are many of us who became ill after an enteroviral infection. If enteroviruses are not to be considered in a list of things that lead to ME...
I am not talking about doing studies on enteroviruses, it is the fact they are getting written out of history that gets to me. Even without the...
And ENTEROVIRUSES :banghead::banghead::banghead: How can you trust the work of anyone who has no knowledge of the history of ME? I get angry at...
Well that's not going to be the problem it might be as long as you know to avoid both!
Is ACT not used as a name for Acceptance Therapy?
At least they are looking at ME symptoms to try to find a cause, rarer than you would expect.
Crawley and probably others get ethical approval because they have to state the risks of harms to participants. She wrote that they were the...
I was told I was developing symptoms of MS because I went to an MS group. This was an extreme example of misunderstanding the arrow of causation...
Female just turned 67, ill for 53 years :). I am still fine, though my ME is so variable maybe I'm not. I had 3 nights of migraines, but then that...
So blood tests are negative and there is no identifiable pathology. All that means is that medicine has not identified a way to recognise the...
Reading the FND website, it has a long (over a page) list of the conditions that are actually FND and apparently, they can all be treated by CBT....
I got my second dose of pfizer on Tuesday. Strangely, I actually slept better that night than for days :). Still doing fine but the next few days...
The further down the BPS rabbit hole the less transparent the prose, never mind the science.
The problem is that FND is treated as one disorder which mimics everything you can think of from seizures, IBS to strokes and kidney stones so...
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If men have a higher inflammatory response than women it means that there is not a simple relationship between damage and inflammation so less...
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