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When’s the study on bigfoot/Sasquatch healing going to be published? I bet it works just as well as homeopathy.

I really like that idea, especially as the ME wiki is controversial at best with some of the info it provides.

it’s worth thinking about all the other events that happened to your mum (and you) since since 1950ish though. Air pollution (which contained some really horrible stuff back then), viruses, bacteria, antibiotics, medications, cleaning products, mould, UV exposure and thousands more. That’s on...

There is no material that generates radiation in an x ray machine so there’s nothing to leave out. Here’s a page explaining how they work. https://science.howstuffworks.com/x-ray2.htm

Is there a higher rate of ME/CFS amongst people who work in banana growing, import, processing, etc? You could be surrounded by thousands of radiation spewing bananas every day!

That’s a really unhelpful way to describe someone who is clearly sympathetic to ME/CFS sufferers.

Committing to being evidence based is the most important they need to do in my opinion but I’m not confident they will. excellent work though in bringing this to their attention.

I hope they find out what bears do in the woods for their next research project

This is why I’m staying sceptical about all this stuff.

I’ve had ME for over 25 years, I still can’t touch my toes.

Id like to second this, it’s the best resource I’ve found for help. They are amazing. That’s weird wonko, I can ask an admin in the group for you if you’d like? Send me a pm if you’re interested.

It’s an issue to get a tribunal to listen to any recording unfortunately. It all comes down to the tribunal and what you are claiming the recording proves. The clearer the recording the more useful it is of course, which is an issue with those cassette recorders. The clearer it is the easier it...

They have no legal requirement to provide recording equipment at all for ESA but it makes no difference if it’s a home visit or in a centre. That being said they generally will provide the equipment if asked. You can provide your own too if they say the equipment is not available. The DWP will...

Better to officially record them if you can. They will supply the equipment for ESA but you have to provide your own for PIP. That can just be 2 portable cassette recorders though.

They upheld the error, I’ll amend my post to be clearer.

Ah yes, they also love to refer to showing intelligence as if that has any bearing on cognitive dysfunction in any way whatsoever. One even tried to use that i had gotten some school qualifications decades ago to say I had no cognitive dysfunction. That one was upheld by a tribunal too. Edited...

Mine just constantly referred to me not being seen by a memory clinic so therefore my cognition must be fine.

Their silence speaks volumes.

Unfortunately it’s not that easy. Getting points for anything to do with cognitive problems with ME/CFS does appear to be much harder than getting points for physical problems, even if you use reminders or tell them you have to have assistance. Simply knowing what actually qualifies as...

It always puzzles me that Capita, Maximum and ATOS all seem to have their own criteria for ME/CFS assessments. Surely the DWP should be setting out how they should be assessing people? I’m not confident the guidelines would be any better but at least it wouldn’t be a postcode lottery.