This was a really useful collection of Wessely quotes, complete with clickable links to references for the publications each of them came from:...
Remember Dr Cheney specifically said 'colds and flu': viral illnesses. So that wouldn't apply to tooth infections, urinary infections and other...
I wonder if it might be that COVID is such a novel virus that it's not similar enough to colds or flu to trigger previously 'learned' immunity?...
This is a truly excellent video, so comprehensive and well-researched. Thank you for all the hard work put into it. :thumbup:
Here's some 'starter packs' on Bluesky to get started with: ME/CFS Advocates:...
Ugh, 'Oh dear' is right. I do wish people who don't know anything about a subject would restrain themselves from making authoritative-sounding...
It may have been the case for Sophia, but the idea of people with ME having a fatty liver is something I remember coming across for multiple...
Ironically, I don't eat ANY of those sorts of foods and don't have a sweet tooth, preferring savoury foods - I eat a super-healthy wholefood...
When I had an improvement from severe to moderate some years ago (after private treatment; no help whatsoever from the NHS aside from being...
I guess I didn't describe that well enough, it starts with waking up groggy feeling full of toxins (hence 'appallingly ill'), followed by feeling...
In my own n=1 experience, what I mean by 'poisoned' is that I feel like my system is full of some sort of noxious substances that have built up...
I relate to this 100%, 'tiredness' or 'fatigue' has never been the issue for me either, but rather being hit with feeling deathly ill and toxic....
It showed an abnormally high GGT. Bilirubin and everything else on the test (ALT, ALP, Albumin, Total Protein, Globulin) were all within normal...
This is very much my experience too, horrendous flulike/toxic-type symptoms and muscle weakness. And beyond that, I even get a bad reaction to...
Excellent summary, @Hutan Between that and the clip posted by @Adam pwme a few posts up, where Garner is again introduced as a 'COVID expert', I...
Nobody here is arguing with science. Dr Garner's opinions about ME are a belief system, though, which is a different thing. Please don't believe...
I, too, prefer 'cognitive problems' instead of brain fog. I've never been able to relate to feeling like I'm going around in a fog; I tend to...
Ahhhhhh yes I think that's it!! I had a very vague memory it was said by a doctor but no recollection as to who. Thank you! And again, interesting...
Thanks, everyone, very interesting to hear everyone's different experiences. Sorry I probably wasn't being clear enough in the OP (the usual...
Oh yes you did answer a question I asked, which was that you too had stopped getting 'proper cold symptoms' after becoming bedbound with ME. And...
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