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Will be keen to hear from anyone who’s had a robot vacuum for a few years and still likes it / it works? That’s what I find off-putting: the idea that I’d have to replace it.

Describing it as a cognitive bias is very useful thank you. My experience is that being the ideal victim is still not enough. Partly because being the ideal for the first half of a lifetime includes not being a complainer and making light of difficulties etc. and partly because this bias leads...

Found this when looking up histamine intolerance (as someone I know has been telling me I should see their specialist for histamine intolerance in case that’s what I need …and I’ve been reluctant to do all that work for another bit of hocum). Today I am having a bad flare of symptoms that might...

Just found this myself on TVNZ on demand “It stole my life” Mysterious fatigue illness traps people in their bodies (16:28) But I can’t figure out how to share it

First I heard that EBM is not simply requiring that medicine be based on actual evidence (as opposed to hearsay and opinion). Hmmm…. Re-evaluating a lot of things said in the past couple of years ….

Maybe a dumb question but what is ‘multiplex immunohistochemistry’? Are we talking about taking a sample of brain tissue out and staining it? Or are we talking about dosing someone/their brain with chemistry to then pick up in imaging? Does imaging mean CT/MRI or something else again? Or are...

This is a very old thread but I’m not sure I want to open a new one for this. I’m thinking about it again because I’ve suddenly got a fairly strong immune response (first a hives-like rash which blew up into bullae but all in the discrete area of skin where I used an adhesive bandage, and also...

Looks like this covers my comment already. I’m really only talking about the symptom. It can be brought on or exacerbated by being in PEM. I wasn’t looking at it from the point of view of a trigger but I would say that it can compound in the factors that do bring PEM on. My point when picking...

I think you already got it? ‘Difficulties with sensory processing’. The impairment is with processing it and therefore it becomes overwhelming and painful. It’s not that we’re less able to tolerate the same amount of unpleasantness, it’s that we’re impacted more

Lovely to discover MERespite, an organisation whose list of what the fundraising is for actually looks like it cares, is not so very far away. Nice to know

Maybe your hearing protection was better? Or better fitted. (With two to three layers of sound protection I think it could be much reduced but if any of them isn’t well fitted, or good quality for the types of sound, that would make a big difference). Also whether in PEM at the time makes a...

Just noting that this says that various vaccines had some statistically significant association with GBS but that Pfizer did not. It reminds me that generalising across multiple vaccine types can be good to scale up the numbers but it’s worth drilling down too. Reminds me that it’s good there...

I need to avoid reading tooo much today (other essential things I need to use up my quota on) but I have been wondering how they distinguish adverse effects from the vaccination vs effects from getting an infection? For example: I know someone who believes they have had long term significant...

“Non-pregnant females with SARS-CoV-2 infection were more likely to be older and have comorbid health conditions. ” Hang on, did they not adjust for age and comorbidities? I can get why they might report the basic data that way but what about reporting the adjusted figures too? The sample size...

Listened to a brief stats podcast (BBC radio “More or Less”) about how they assessed the evidence (due to lack of RCTs). It’s called the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. (Wikipedia has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle%E2%80%93Ottawa_scale) Here’s a random (did an image search) copy of the sorts of...

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Brief intro to some apparently newly published (Dr Warren Tate Otago University) research (will have to check elsewhere to see what it is as the article gives very little info) Links between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid found...

posts copied from the News from New Zealand thread Brief intro to some apparently newly published (Dr Warren Tate Otago University) research (will have to check elsewhere to see what it is as the article gives very little info) Links between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid found...

Just picking out a few bits I wanted to know (in case others do too): On the lunar-cov19 series (efficacy, adverse effects):

Needed this today. Thanks for posting it when you did. My dog is barking with FOMO excitement at the sound of people jumping into the water on a hot day. I have KOMO (or SOMO - sick of) myself. (Nice to know it’s something anyone might feel, when it seems ungrateful, and yet all I want is for...