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It is only in the past 40 years or so that most people's lifestyles have meant that they need to use leisure time to keep fit. Before that exercise was day to day work and chores then sports done for fun. Now everyone has to keep fit but being fit enough is not defined anywhere. Should we all...

I have only met one person with MS dementia but it does happen. It makes sense that anything that affects neurons will affect the brain.

In the UK before Lake Tahoe the symptoms of ME were seen as being widespread, often devastating pain especially in the muscles, an abnormal response to exercise and neurological involvement. Fatigue was only mentioned in the sense that it is present when people are ill. When the CDC in its...

Yes, it might be better stated that some people have unusual sequelae to common infections :) When I became ill my uncle did too. He experienced recurrent kidney infections for over 10 years and has been well since. Many people report that a few people who work together or are relayed become...

I have not read the paper so I don't know if they controlled for this. Polio was caused by an abnormal response to a fairly common infection. In 1984 people felt that ME could be caused by an abnormal response to a common coxsackie or other enteroviral infection. Some people believe they get ME...

I do love It's like astrology. "Capricorns are fun and outgoing but shy and retiring. They like to sit quietly in the corner and observe others but there are often the leader in there social group"

I knew a woman who had her pituitary removed for cancer. She looked like the stereotype of the couch potato, very overweight, plodding walk and a blank looking face that was slow to react to anything. She did not look ill just pressed all the buttons for prejudice. A horrible thing to happen to...

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If you have a glass of wine 4 days a week you score 4 then having 6 drinks every Christmas day gives you another point to be classed as a problematic drinker. The question then is what a control group would score. It may be that people with longcovid drink much less than the normal population...

From Stone's writings they seem to believe that they have finally put hysteria on a scientific basis, hence the continual assertion that it is an opt in disease nowadays rather than what you get when you can't find anything else. The fact this is delusional I leave aside for now. Snow Leopard...

After all this time you would think that that "may" could be replaced by "often", "sometimes", "usually" or something more definite.

There is a general problem in medicine caused by the use of cut off points in testing. Most of the time it works well but it is hard to keep in mind that it is an interpretation of biology and must be used alongside clinical judgement. With laboratory testing there is an unspoken belief that...

When I did microbiology in the 70s we were taught that E. coli was commensal but could cause infection if it was given a chance. Neisseria can live happily in the nose but cause meningitis if it reaches the brain. Similarly Staph.sp live on the skin but if the skin is broken or thin due to age...

What gets me is that there are plenty of people out there who could do with good research into how they could stop their emotions ruining their lives. Things like OCD, social anxiety, panic attacks, depression are horrible to live with but instead of helping them they keep putting out papers...

Studies on ME epidemiology are sparse but the old idea was that trauma could reactivate a virus or let a virus that was contained run rampant. It is not a controversial idea. Microbes reproduce and spread unless they are contained. If the immune system is busy dealing with a separate infection...

I think it just got left hanging the way so many things have been left in ME research. I will say though that 19 from 20 sounds very high but then people who thought they had been harmed by a vaccine are more likely to respond to the questionnaire. Everyone in my husband's department were...

We are not anti psychology or psychiatry as long as such and especially not against FND because it is in the DSM-5. We were fighting against it before it went in the DSM because the research used to justify its very existence is rubbish. It is an ideologically forced non existent disease. It is...

So if they find that antimicrobials helped ME/CFS it will be proof that microorganisms can cause mental illness?

The list of similar symptoms and the general thrust seemed to echo what this forum has been saying for years; that ME is a disease which is the end point of different infections. Even traumatic onsets may be a change from mild disease to a more obvious one caused by a common place infection. In...

The first sentence is about a one way interconnection, the second seems tagged on the end to deflect criticism.