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Thinking about it, "female" and "sexual abuse" are not specific enough to use for a diagnosis. There is no path offered by which being female can cause a seizure. It harks back to women having weaker brains and constitutions and is no more medical than that. Then "a history of sexual abuse"...

If it was as simple as "not caused by abnormal electrical cortical activity" surely there would be no need for any other criteria? Being female and having been sexually abused could be the best indicators because people in those categories are more likely to be diagnosed with it. Pooling lots...

:banghead::banghead::banghead: Someone funded this idiocy.

Fairness, where no one gets more than their share, seems to be written into primate DNA. Because we also have a sense of compassion people who are seen as being unable to contribute are still allowed a share from the communal pot. However, we are depicted as being able to do things if we wanted...

I don't really experience fatigue even now, it is feeling ill that keeps my from doing things. What I have always had is a sudden stop, either my whole body or parts of it, which can take a few seconds to hours to recover to what I was doing except very occasionally. This is different from the...

Before CFS, doctors and medical staff were seen as being liable to get ME, (along with mothers and teachers) as they were often in contact with infectious diseases and found it hard to take enough time to recover when ill. Charles Shepherd and Vance Spence one of the founders of MEReasearch UK...

I discovered recently that there is a name for this. I had just assumed it was something everyone experienced most of the time https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep/sleep-drunkenness Awful name. It is also called confusional arousal

When certain organs are attacked it can become life threatening very quickly but other organs can be badly damaged but you can keep going. Consider a bladder infection as opposed to a lung infection. Not being hospitalized does not mean that the infection was milder or did not cause widespread...

Sleep is highly conserved in evolution so something about it is necessary to the function of the organism. As organisms have become more complex so have the functions of sleep. Psychological dominance of sleep and dreams may have hidden the fundamental, biological necessity of sleep. These...

It is 3 weeks since my second jab. I don't get out much but I had to go for a blood test so I took the opportunity to go shopping. It was about 11.00 o'clock in the morning so everything was quiet. I visited 2 shops and got some hand cream and 6 t shirts for warm days so I was pleased. The...

And if they say they are in bad pain decide it is because they think it is physical so the answer is to find ways to make them believe it is not physical because we firmly believe that will make the pain magically go away. If the pain does not go away that will be proof we are right because...

The MS research I know about was at least 2014. I am not good with time, but one of my friends who had to withdraw because of side effects died a good few years ago.

They ran trials of cannabis for MS in my area but the results were not fantastic. In the real life situation, there was a lot about cannabis for MS twenty years ago and many of the people I knew had tried it and the chocolate bars but if it had worked that well everybody would be taking it now...

There must be a reason for doing this now. Maybe they want the approach discredited so that their CBT looks better or to get more money... whatever. You can be sure patient care is not the priority.

Thank you.

I am interested in seeing the forms but I can't find any place to download the pdf.

Are these researchers saying it is functional to mean MUS or emotionally based or do they mean something else. It is so confusing. If there are physical changes it can't be FND by definition and if it is caused by immune changes it is not idiopathic but immunological surely. Gastroparesis can...

Yes, it is not just that their treatments don't work, they have absolutely no idea of what they are trying to treat.

I have always had it as a symptom long before I was severe and before any medication. It may not be best described as a trembling as it is totally internal, a whooshing inside is a better description. I also get a spasm inside which feels exactly like a baby kicking and in people who are thin...

A trembling, thrumming inside is one of the ME symptoms. A good few years ago now on another forum I discussed this with another patient. She had a very good, well understanding, doctor and he said that what she was feeling was a turbulence in the arterial blood flow. It seemed to fit what I...