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I totally agree with you, @Invisible Woman, and let me say that you and we all here rise hope :) I agree. I once had the idea to determine estimations of costs for ME patients and compare it with cancer or MS e.g.. I'd say cancer is more expensive. It's always said costs are so high - truly? I...

I have chronic sinusitis, too, for 4 years now I guess. I was prescribed cortisone for some weeks, which helps to get the nose free, but the sinusitis is still there. Then I was advised to do an operation which I rejected (others who had it done reported the sinusitis came back after approx. 2...

Wow, great @Andy, thank you!!

Changes can be made, absolutely. But not by few (unless they're rich). In the 80s (or starting in the 60s) the mentality was different. People were outraged; there even were some forms of revolts. (A revolt has not to be violent in order to be successful.) That's, in my opinion, a problem, also...

Very good article. Sure. A wide range of BPS papers. (Emphasize is mine.) That's what I observed often, too: I fear the authors' paper will go unheeded. The BPS model is great for saving money.

Some say the immune system is a little bit like a chaotic system, i.e. if you look at its function at one point in time and then on another, it might be completely different and it might not be forecast in which way. Assuming the immune system is 'chaotic': If the immune system plays a role in...

A lot, as we know from history and present. As always I can only speak for the country I live in: people here are very pro psychological. Even in chit-chats, psychological matters are spoken about as about the weather. But behold, "psychological illness" is something disgusting, so you only...

How can you prove something is "psychological"? First problem: How is "psyche" defined? Does there exist a unique definition of "psyche"? Does "psyche" define something from nature (e.g. some object, some physical/biological...entity), or is it something philosophical, normative, spiritual...

@Jonathan Edwards I really do think you are the exception :) I never met a doctor who acted and/or treated prospectively. Findings were only discredited as "meaningless"; connections are never looked for or understood. If you can't understand the problem, you can't solve it (unless you're...

That's something I can confirm subjectively. My muscles burn very fast, even with the slightest usage (e.g. brushing hair). When I was ok and doing my training, of course I had muscle burning. You want to get into this area regularly in order to improve your capacity. For this a certain amount...

You are right. It cannot be denied that a certain German past still has major bad influences, amongst others in psychiatry. Very popular: work "therapy". According the Ärztekammer Nordrhein I understand there was a certain success in the past, by arguing on a scientific basis. There was some...

Thank you @Andy, and thank Lennie!

UNUM is an insurance company? And what is ATOS?

Well, I hope that if things change in the UK, Germany must follow. BUT I thought that with respect to the US, too, and nothing changed. But I think it could be worth a try to write a letter, in the best case a scientific one with analyses, citing all the papers around the PACE and how the US...

Why not stop talking and writing completely...

I think that's definitely the case, at least in Germany. Insurance companies (occupational disability insurance) exclude payments in case of psychological causes. There are connections between medical associations (certain members) and insurance companies (I saw documents but didn't save them...

Here is the complete version: http://www.awmf.org/uploads/tx_szleitlinien/053-002l_S3_Muedigkeit_2011-abgelaufen.pdf What is also said: P. 32: "CFS can not be differentiated from other diseases or from a healthy 'normal state' by a defined pathological process..." P. 33: diagnostics that are...

DEGAM is the "German Society for General Practice and Family Medicine". In the past, DEGAM has published a guideline about "tiredness". Patients and some doctors took up their voice and wrote to Degam about their contents about CFS. There was some anger due to an ME patient organisation's...

I somewhere read NHS was part of the funding, too. Sorry for this misinformation. Edit: But NHS was part of the trial in other ways?

I would be excited about a reply. Thank you @Andy!