If any of them are ladies my age, showing them a glass of water is enough to make them desperate for a pee! But seriously, are there problems...
And where there is no treatment, it's moot anyway. We have nothing that would allow a substantial proportion of patients to increase their...
It starts from a place of deep prejudice, so it's not surprising it's alive and kicking. In my early teens I actually thought I'd witness the end...
Probably only two things, really. The age of the doctor doesn't matter. I was diagnosed 25 years ago by someone who was well into in his 70s...
And unwieldy PROMs that don't actually capture anything meaningful do? :whistle:
I think malaise does it reasonably well, and post-exertional malaise does it better because it's more specific. I wouldn't have picked it myself,...
It was great for me, even though I had a rough time! If you've struggled for 30-odd years with endometriosis, the day your periods stop is a...
An aside, but the funny thing is that when we find something really works the evidence will be hard to capture in graphable form. Years ago I...
I'm still hoping they come to understand that questionnaires should never be filled in whilst the patient is in a clinic. If they're sitting...
It'd be hilarious if someone asked whether "hysterical projection, catastrophising, conspiracy theories, overt hostility and insults" counted as...
Yeah, much the same. My cycle stopped at age 45, and 20 years later I still have symptoms. My 88 year-old nan once informed me cheerfully that...
They don't usually test at all, really. It's a fair assumption that if you're a certain age, hormone levels will be changing. I'd have been...
I agree, but they can sometimes be useful in this context. I'm of an age where nearly all the women I know have now gone through menopause, and...
I thought about this earlier, but is it the best way to go? As I understand it (and to be fair I don't), one of the values in these tools is that...
When it was used to describe my illness, I think it really was in that sense. I first heard it in the mid-70s, when I'd seen the GP numerous...
To me, there might also be an opportunity to work on something sooner rather than later, iron out as many of the creases as we can, and then it's...
It is genuinely difficult and I wouldn't suggest allowing anyone else to do it. I was thinking of it either in terms of something members could...
Yeah, I think it just sounds discriminatory and patronising. You tend to know from the context whether it's being used in a neutral, clinical way,...
I'm not suggesting doing this, I just thought it might be an interesting question to raise. Could one of these tools be targeted at either a long...
My worry too. But if it can be made workable using that as a source to start with, all well and good. Most problems can usually be ironed out,...
Separate names with a comma.
