I looked up the author. Mats Lekander is a professor of health psychology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and researches the...
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This is the ME Association's response to the BACME position paper....
Have you seen this thread? https://www.s4me.info/threads/pacing-up-why-its-as-harmful-and-unevidenced-as-get.42006/ The therapist to whom I was...
There are hundreds of 'popular science' books with all sorts of theories, many of them wrong and based on a mix of anecdotes and poor quality...
Surely asymptomatic ME/CFS is a contradiction, since symptoms are required for diagnosis.
Wouldn't that have shown up in the outcome data from all the various BPS and drug treatment studies? If people not recovering were the rare ones...
For me tired but wired refers specifically to when I'm trying to get to sleep at night and am very tired and needing sleep but my brain is wide...
A useful analogy for discussion, but I think it's much more complicated, as no one knows which person with which mental or physical illness will...
I'm not sure I understand what you are arguing in this case, @boolybooly. People with ME/CFS know from experience that clinicians can't tell who...
I also strongly dislike the logo. The black surround looks funereal, the orange ME looks like 'me' as in 'myself' rather than ME, and the blobby...
We have known for a long time that some people recover, especially in the first couple of years and young people. There is also a big problem of...
I don't see it as an improvement really. Cochrane themselves only describe it as edited for clarity in their history of the review document. They...
Week beginning 3rd March 2025 Cochrane complaints On 5th February 2025, the Science for ME committee submitted a detailed complaint headed:...
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng206/evidence/january-2025-surveillance-of-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-or-encephalopathychronic-fatigue-syndrome-15...
The liver stores carbs as glycogen which can be broken back to glucose when needed, as I understand it with a continual flow of surplus glucose...
I read a few posts on the thread. People were including a few days feeling better during or after catching a cold, and times when their ME...
Some posts have been moved to the thread about vaccine injuries.
That abstract is a very clearly written and damning critique of the original review. Thank you, @Mark Vink.
Or perhaps the are misdiagnoses, given that we repeatedly hear of people diagnosed with ME/CFS who are found to have something else instead.
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